Description: Snapshots are summaries of research articles, books, and other publications by researchers at the FPG Child Development Institute at UNC-Chapel Hill. Snapshot #46 is based upon McLaughlin, A., Campbell, F. A., Pungello, E. P., & Skinner, M. (2007). Early educational child care reduces depressive symptoms in young adults reared in low-income families. Child Development, 78(3), 746&em;756. Abstract: Children living in poverty often have less than ideal home environments and are at an increased risk for depression in adulthood. Follow-up research from FPG's Abecedarian Project found that young adults (21 years of age)who had received high quality, full-time early educational child care from infancy to age five reported fewer symptoms of depression than similar young adults who had not.