Until the late 1980s, and often well into the 2000s, it was common for small children in Germany to be handed over to daycare without any settling-in period. Research at the Free University of Berlin in 1984 and 1985, by Kuno Beller’s team, which included Hans-Joachim Laewen, found that children who started this way were absent through illness three to four times as often in their first six to seven months. They also showed delays in development and a less secure attachment to their mothers. In 2007, Laewen, Beate Andres and Eva Hédervári spoke of einem gravierenden Verstoß gegen das Kindeswohl, a serious violation of the child’s welfare, when children under three were not settled in. Today the term Eingewöhnung is fixed in the education plans of the German states.