‘An early investment in high-quality childcare for low-income children can reduce the risk of depression later in life, a new U.S. study says.

Young adults from low-income families who received full-time early educational child care from infancy to age 5 reported fewer symptoms of depression than their peers who were not in this type of care, according to a report by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill appearing in the May-June issue of the journal Child Development.’

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