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African American fathers: Myths and realities about their involvement with their firstborn children
Smith, Carolyn A., 2005
Journal of Family Issues, 26(7), 975-1001

An examination of the extent and predictors of parental involvment among young, urban, African-American fathers, using data from the Rochester Youth Development Study, a longitudinal survey following 1,000 adolescents in 1987-1988 Rochester, New York

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Attitudes about shared reading among at-risk mothers of newborn babies
Berkule, Samantha B., January-February 2007
Ambulatory Pediatrics, 7(1), 45-50

An examination of low income, multi ethnic mothers' attitudes in terms of shared book reading with their infants, the number of books in their homes and the relation between sociodemographic characteristics and the mothers' attitudes

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Characteristics and needs of Asian-American grandparent caregivers: A study of Chinese-American and Korean-American grandparents in New York City
Yoon, Sung Min, 2005
Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 44(3-4), 75-94

A study of the characteristics and service needs of 101 Chinese-American and Korean-American caregiver grandparents in New York City

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Child care and working mothers in Puerto Rican families
Hurst, Marsha, 1982
Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 461, 124-134

A study of urban Puerto Rican mothers’ cultural attitudes towards child care, including their influence on child care arrangements, mothering attitudes, the family support system that surrounds them, and their impact on mothers’ participation in the labor force

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Child care expenses of America's families
Giannarelli, Linda, 2000
(Occasional Paper No. 40). Washington, DC: Urban Institute.

A study of the child care expenses of working families with children under age 13, with particular attention to low-income families.

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Child care in rural areas: Top challenges
Smith, Linda K., 09 July, 2010
Arlington, VA: National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies.

An examination of child care challenges facing child care providers and parents in rural areas, based on survey responses from child care resource and referral agencies in 42 states

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Child care, subsidy receipt and state of residence: Comparisons by age and parent work schedule
Georges, Annie, December 2001
Paper presented to the 23rd Annual Research Conference of the Association for Public Policy, Analysis and Management, Washington, DC, November

A study of the differences in child care arrangements as it relates to costs of care and state of residence among children in families eligible for subsidies

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Children enrolled in public pre-K: The relation of family life, neighborhood quality, and socioeconomic resources to early competence
Barbarin, Oscar, 2006
American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 76(2), 265-276

An examination of the relations of young children's sociodemographic characteristics, parental well-being, family functioning, and neighborhood quality to their early academic achievements and socioemotional competence

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A conversation with immigrant mothers about early learning programs: Benefits, barriers & work to be done
De Masi, Mary E., 2008
Rensselaer, NY: New York State Council on Children and Families.

An inquiry into the early childhood education and care experiences of immigrant families with young children, including information on benefits of child care to families and families' barriers to access, based on information gathered through focus groups with 92 women in New York City and the southern part of New York State

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The determinants and consequences of child care subsidies for single mothers in the USA
Blau, David M., October 2007
Journal of Population Economics, 20(4), 719-741

A study of the effects of child care subsidies on the employment, school, and welfare participation of single mothers following the passage of the 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA)

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Economic deprivation and early childhood development
Duncan, Greg, 1994
Child Development, 65(2), 296-318

A study of the impact of poverty and poverty correlates such as ethnicity, maternal education, neighborhood conditions and single parenthood on child cognitive and behavioral development, using longitudinal data from the Infant Health and Development program

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Employed rural, low-income, single mothers' family and work over time
Son, Seohee, March 2010
Journal of Family and Economic Issues, 31(1), 107-120

A study of perceptions of difficulties and challenges of balancing family, child care, and work responsibilities, based on a secondary analysis of interview data with of 28 rural, low-income, continuously employed, and single mothers across 11 states over three waves of data collection between 1999 and 2003, who took part in the longitidunal Rural Families Speak Project

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Family reading behavior and early literacy skills in preschool children from low-income backgrounds
Bracken, Stacey Storch, January 2008
Early Education and Development, 19(1), 45-67

A study of the relationship between family reading behavior and child literacy skills in a sample of 233 low-income preschoolers attending Head Start, and an examination of the role of demographic variables in predicting early literacy skills

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Fathers of U.S. children born in 2001: Findings from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort (ECLS-B)
Avenilla, Frank, July 2006
(E.D. Tab, NCES 2006-002). Washington, DC: National Center for Education Statistics.

Findings from a survey of biological fathers of sampled children in the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort (ECLS-B), including data on fathers' demographic characteristics, attitudes about fathering, and involvement in child care

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Impact of maternal posttraumatic stress disorder and depression following exposure to the September 11 attacks on preschool children's behavior
Chemtob, Claude M., July/August 2010
Child Development, 81(4), 1129-1141

A comparison of parents' and preschool teachers' ratings of both preschool children’s behavioral problems and risk for behavioral problems between groups of children with mothers with depression, depression combined with post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), or neither, based on data collected from 113 children and parents living or attending preschool or child care in Lower Manhattan on September 11, 2001

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Low-income Latino mothers’ booksharing styles and children’s emergent literacy development
Caspe, Margaret, Q3 2009
Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 24(3), 1-19

An examination the relationship between maternal booksharing styles and low-income Latino children’s language and literacy development based on data collected from 80 New York City area Latino Head Start mothers and their 4-year-old children as they read a wordless children’s picture book together in their homes

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Maternal grandmothers as child care providers for rural, low-income mothers: A unique child care arrangement
Reschke, Kathy L., 2006
Journal of Children & Poverty, 12(2), 159-174

An examination of the positive and challenging aspects of grandmothers providing child care for their grandchildren, investigating the experiences of the grandmothers as well as the effects on the sample of low income mothers from rural communities

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Organizational culture and New York State employees' work-family conflict: Gender differences in balancing work and family responsibilities
Kim, Soonhee, 1998
Review of Public Personnel Administration, 18(1), 57-72

An overview of the relationship between organizational culture and family leave policy as it relates to gender differences in balancing family-work responsibilities on New York State employees

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Parental conceptions of school readiness: Relation to ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and children’s skills
Barbarin, Oscar, September 2008
Early Education and Development, 19(5), 671-701

A study of the family demographic characteristics and child skills associated with parental conceptions of school readiness, based on interviews with 452 parents of 4-year-olds enrolled public prekindergarten programs

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School-based child care for children of teen parents: Evaluation of an urban program designed to keep young mothers in school
Crean, Hugh, 2001
Evaluation and Program Planning, 24(3), 267-275

An evaluation of an urban school-based program designed to keep young teen mothers in school by providing free on-site child care for their infants and toddlers, parenting classes, and referral to other service agencies

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Strengthening Latino parental involvement forming community-based organizations/school partnership
Osterling, Jorge P, 2004
NABE Journal of Research and Practice, 2(1), 270-284

A discussion of the use of partnerships between schools and Latino community-based organizations to improve the involvement of Latino parents in children’s schooling

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Understanding barriers to parent involvement in Head Start: A research-community partnership
Lamb-Parker, Faith, 2001
Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 16(1), 35-51

An examination of the barriers to parental involvement in early childhood programs in two New York City Head Start programs, by the NCJW Center for the Child research institute

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Understanding fathering: The Early Head Start study of fathers of newborns
Vogel, Cheri, 2003
Princeton, NJ: Mathematica Policy Research.

A study of the involvement of low-income fathers in the development of their birth to 14 month-old children, based on a sample of 108 fathers in 10 states

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Understanding the living arrangements of Latino immigrants: A life course approach
Blank, Susan, 1998
International Migration Review, 32(1), 3-19

A study of Cuban, Mexican and Puerto Rican immigrants’ economic situations, family dynamics and support networks

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Who gets what from government?: Distributional consequences of child-care assistance policies
Durfee, Alesha, 2006
Journal of Marriage and the Family, 68(3), 733-748

An analysis of the level and distribution of child care assistance using data from the New York Social Indicators Survey to examine how many families receive assistance, how much assistance is received, and how the total assistance levels vary in terms of family, child, and parent characteristics

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