Abstract

This article examines the policy environment as a context for infant development by drawing on the perspectives of Urie Bronfenbrenner, Arnold Sameroff, Desmond Runyan, Robert Hill, Alfred Kamerman, Sheila Kahn, and Eugene Steuerle and his colleagues. The author suggests that in the United States of America today, one of the greatest risks to the healthy development of young children may be the risk of the loss or disruption of important caregiving relationships. The concepts of social forces, social policies, and policy change are used as a framework to consider how the development of individual infants, within their caregiving relationships, may be shaped by the policy environment.

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