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=== Long-term impact of separation of child from its parents === The NICHD Study of Early Child Care was designed to assess the long-term outcomes of non parental care giving. Non Parental care giving involved both relatives (kinship care) and non relatives (Day care). The NICHD study was based on Uri Bronfenbrenner's ecological theory (1979). Analysis of the effects of family and child care revealed that the characteristics of the family and the nature and quality of the mothers relationship with the child was a significantly better predictor of children's outcome. Prolonged separations from parents have profound disruptive influence on children's development. Such prolonged separations include separations due to death, institutionalization which entails sending a child to live in an institution or setting without parents, divorce and desertion of the child by parent and hospitalization or prolonged absence due to illness. Prolonged exposure to poor institutional care could lead to despair, apathy, and deficits in social responsiveness. According to Rutter (1979), it is the failure to develop secure attachment with parents that leads to problems in social responsiveness. Institutionalization is extreme form of separation of the child from its parents. In their study of children in the Bucharest Early Intervention Project (BEIP), Smyke et al. (2010) found that children who remained institutionalized had higher levels of insecure-other attachment than children in a foster care condition. Children placed in foster care exhibited higher levels of secure-attachment. Additionally, Smyke et al. (2010) found that children who were placed into the foster care condition prior to 24 months of age were more likely to display secure attachment at the 42-month follow-up. [1]
==== Emotional abuse ==== Children also experience significant harm due to neglect, and emotional child abuse can manifest through rejection, intimidation, or isolation of the child.
==== Sleeper effect ==== With the view that children develop through adolescence by building on prior periods and that some effects of early experiences during child rearing might manifest later on in what is called as "Sleeper effect". It may be seen that effects of child rearing may be seen even later.
== See also == Emotional abandonment Native American boarding schools Restoring Family Links Trump administration family separation policy UNHCR
== References ==