We begin by placing contemporary patterns of child care in their broader Socio-cultural and historical context before sketching changing patterns of child care and explaining the importance of quality when assessing effects of child care on child development. Intensive research has established that high-quality nonparental care promotes and does not derail developmental processes. Because diverse experiences (often involving multiple types of nonparental care) differentially affect the development of children who have distinctive individual characteristics, we examine the effects of nonparental care on many developmental domains (such as relationships and compliance with adults, peer relationships, adaptation and behavior problems, personality maturation and cognitive/intellectual development) closely, emphasizing the crucial intersection between home and out-of-home care settings. Experiences both inside and outside the home continue to affect children's development and we illustrate how practitioners and parents can share children's care in ways that are most likely to enhance children's developmental outcomes.
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