“…Despite inconsistencies across studies, there appear to be larger benefits of child care for children from disadvantaged backgrounds (poverty, low maternal education) for cognitive and emotional/behavioural outcomes (Laurin, Guay, Fournier, Bigras, & Solis, ; Melhuish, ; Vandell, ), including reduced physical aggression and increased school readiness (Côté et al., ; Geoffroy et al., ). It is also important to consider that children from disadvantaged families are more likely to attend a low‐quality child‐care setting (Japel, Tremblay, & Côté, ; Pianta, Barnett, Burchinal, & Thornburg, ) and less likely to attend regularly compared to children from more advantaged backgrounds (Institut de la statistique du Québec, ).…”