An analysis of women's return-to-work decisions following first birth
An examination of the economic determinants of a woman’s decision to return to work within one year after childbirth
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The availability of child care and mothers' employment in West Germany
An exploration of the links between parents' access to affordable, quality child care and maternal employment rates in West Germany, based on data from the German Socioeconomic Panel (SOEP) on households with at least one child under age 12
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Blending work and family: A case study
A study and discussion of the impact of employer-based infant-care programs on mothers, infants and the workplace
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Child care and employment in relation to infants' disabilities and risk factors
A study of children’s chronic health problems; use of adaptive equipment; diagnoses; risk factors; and mental, motor and adaptive functioning on maternal employment plans and selection of child care arrangements
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Child care and mothers' employment decisions
A paper on the effects of child care costs on the employment decisions of mothers of varying skill levels
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Child care costs and the return-to-work decisions of new mothers
An examination of the economic determinants of a woman’s decision to return to work shortly after childbirth
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Child care subsidies and the employment of welfare recipients
A study examining the probability that low-income single mothers in California will receive child care subsidies and the effect this has on their employment.
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The effects of child care on women's employment and child care utilization
A study using data from the Current Population Survey (CPS) and the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) to determine if accessibility, availability or affordability of child care influences a women’s decision to enter the labor force
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Effects of day care and maternal employment: Views from introductory psychology textbooks
An examination of the treatment of child care and maternal employment in introductory psychology textbooks published between 1970 and 1997
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Employment and earnings of the working poor in rural and urban labor markets
An analysis of labor market conditions in Oregon and their role in employment outcomes for economically disadvantaged families
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Employment, child care, and mental health of mothers caring for children assisted by technology
A study of the effects of caring for a child assisted by technology on maternal employment and decisions to maintain and continue employment
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Enabled or disabled?: Working parents of disabled children and the provision of child-care
An analysis of formal and informal supports to enable employed parents of disabled children to combine employment and caregiving
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Ethnocultural perspectives on childrearing practices in the Caribbean
A study on cultural views of child abuse from the Caribbean perspective
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Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study: Oakland, California: Baseline report
A summary of findings from the initial analysis of the first wave of data from the Oakland, California cohort of the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing study--a longitudinal study of unmarried parents' characteristics, relationships, and access to resources, and the health and well-being of their children
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Grandmothers' involvement in grandchildren's care: Attitudes, feelings, and emotions
A study conducted in Italy of the variety of psychological and relational aspects of mothers, grandmothers, and young children from the point of view of the grandmother, including their analysis of the meaning they assigned to grandmothering and the individual definitions they assigned to their role as grandmothers
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Hiring a nanny: The limits of private solutions to public problems
An investigation into the socioeconomic and cultural conflicts surrounding the hiring of a live-in child care worker, based on interviews with 155 families and their nannies in the New York and Los Angeles areas
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The impact of dependent-care responsibility and gender on work attitudes
An analysis of the impact of child care, elder care, and gender on work-family balance and various facets of job satisfaction in a survey questionnaire among federal employees in dual-income households
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The impact of welfare reform on parents' ability to care for their children's health
A study of the conditions faced by mothers who leave welfare to work and the availability of work benefits that address the children’s health needs, such as paid sick leave and flexible hours
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Income-pooling arrangements, economic constraints and married mothers' child care choices
A study of the confluent factors surrounding husbands and wives’ financial arrangements, child care costs, mothers’ wages, sources of wages, and their affect on a mother’s decision to use child care, with results formed through data analysis of the National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972
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Marriage, children, and women's employment: What do we know?
An examination of women’s involvement, particularly married women, in paid employment, focusing on paid employment and child care in the context of recent welfare reform
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A model of fathers' behavioral involvement in child care in dual-earner families
An account of the amount of time that mother’s and father’s reported that the father was involved in child care, including the amount of time as a primary caregiver and the number of child care tasks performed
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The new faces of Head Start: Learning from culturally diverse families
A discussion of reasons for Head Start Programs to support culturally diverse families’ child-rearing beliefs, including social, emotional and cognitive development, based on data collected from two literacy projects: Project FIEL (Family Initiative for English Literacy) for Mexican and Mexican-American families in Texas, and Poj Niam Thiab Meyuam (Mother/Child Shool) for Hmong women and their children in Minnesota
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Social support provided by public health nurses and the coping of first-time mothers with child care
A study of the factors affecting first time Finnish mothers on coping with child care when her infant is three months old
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Teaching child-care and safety skills to parents with intellectual disabilities through self-learning
A study on the effectiveness of audio-visual self-learning manuals in improving the child-rearing skills of parents with intellectual disabilities
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Texas subsidized child care utilization patterns and outcomes
A study of the workforce participation outcomes, demographic characteristics, and subsidized child care usage patterns of low-income families receiving subsidies through Texas’ Child Care Management Services (CCMS) system between 1994 and 1997
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