Vaccinating children has become a national issue. Parents fear that side effects will cause long lasting medical issues for their children. Parents fear that because of those parents their child will be at a greater risk for getting serious illnesses.
Montrose Child Care Center is just one of many daycare's facing concern of non-vaccinated children. The daycare is responsible for infants, as young as six weeks, to children, up to five years of age. Infants are usually too young or still in process of getting vaccinations when they enter the daycare. Eileen Scerra, Director, says that children are aloud to attend the daycare granted they have proper documentation from a doctor with a schedule for their vaccinations. There are children that sometimes have delayed vaccinations because of allergies or other medical concerns. Those children, according to Scerra, also need proper medical documentation stating the reason for the delay and future schedule.
Heather Mackey, former employee and parent of Montrose Child Care expressed concern that if a child attends the daycare without proper vaccinations her five month old son will be at risk because of vaccinations he has yet to receive. Scerra agreed by stating it would cause too much risk for a child without vaccinations to attend the daycare.
Montrose Child Care Center is a NAEYC (National Association for the Education of Young Children) accredited daycare. According to NAEYC, children must have proper documentation of medical records INCLUDING forms stating religious exemption from vaccinations.
When a child is trying to enroll in the daycare program that has chosen to not get vaccinations because of religious reasons the decision must be voted on by the Board for Montrose Child Care Center. Scerra says ultimately the decision would be NO because of the potential risk that this child would pose on other children.
New York State, among many other states, allows parents to enroll children into programs that have religious exemption from vaccinations.
Most fear of vaccinations comes with concern that vaccinations and immunizations have a direct relationship to autism in young children Even though this theory has been discredited through many studies, including a recent one that involved over 95,000 children, the fear still exists.
For more information regarding vaccinations: http://www.nvic.org/
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