ABSTRACT Parental overuse of portable technology poses a bonafide threat to the welfare and development of children. In the past decade, researchers have documented this phenomenon whereby parents pay far more attention to handheld electronic devices than to their children's safety and developmental needs. What most studies have failed to examine is the extent to which workers in privately owned and operated daycares also exhibit technology-induced distracted behavior. This article aims to identify the moral harm of caregivers' distracted behaviour in a private daycare setting or, more simply, the welfare effects of distracted daycare. First, with the assistance of recent research, the phenomenon of distracted caregiving is defined. Then, the documented harms of distracted caregiving in a daycare setting are catalogued. Next, an ethical analysis of the phenomenon of distracted daycare working is undertaken from four normative ethical perspectives: (i) ethical egoism, (ii) utilitarianism, (iii) principlism and (iv) care ethics. Five recommendations for reforming distracted daycares, each based upon one or more of the four ethical perspectives, inform the article's conclusions.

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分心托儿所和儿童福利：一项伦理分析

摘要父母对便携式技术的过度使用严重威胁着儿童的福利和发展。在过去的十年中，研究人员已经记录了这种现象，即与父母相比，父母对孩子的安全和发育需求的关注程度要高得多。大多数研究未能检查的是，私人拥有和经营的托儿所的工人在多大程度上也表现出技术引起的分心行为。本文旨在确定在私人日托环境中看护者分心行为的道德危害，或更简单地说，是分心日托的福利影响。首先，借助最近的研究，人们定义了分心照顾的现象。然后，对在托儿所中分散注意力的护理所记录的危害进行分类。下一个，从四个规范的伦理角度对分散的日托工作现象进行了伦理分析：（i）伦理利己主义，（ii）功利主义，（iii）原则主义和（iv）护理伦理。五项改革分心日托的建议，分别基于四种道德观点中的一种或多种，​​为本文的结论提供了依据。