English to Portuguese Medical Medical: Health Care

In turn, this new economic reality contributed to
the current assumption that it is a good thing for mothers to
work, even during their baby’s earliest months and years when
he is still dependent on his parents for continuous emotional
regulation and bodily care. As a result, many parents now turn
to substitute care at an ever earlier age, despite the fact that
the need to keep costs down means that its quality rarely
matches that of parental care. These unfolding processes affect
the lives of millions of small children. Yet we keep stumbling
from one unintended consequence to the next.