African American fathers: Myths and realities about their involvement with their firstborn children
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
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
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
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 arrangements among low-income families: A qualitative approach
An examination of child care arrangements among families in low-income urban neighborhoods, using longitudinal data from interviews with 42 mothers of preschool children in New York City
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Child care expenses of America's families
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
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 subsidies, wages, and employment of single mothers
An analysis of the effects of the price of child care and the wage rate on employment and child care decisions among single mothers in the early post-welfare reform period, using data from the National Survey of America's Families
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Child care, subsidy receipt and state of residence: Comparisons by age and parent work schedule
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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Child care under the Family Support Act: Early lessons from the states
A study of the Head Start program’s effects on disadvantaged rural students development compared with non-Head Start rural students, based on results from the analysis of variance studies in testing of 144 children in Mississippi enrolled in Head Start I and Head Start II programs, and a non-Head Start control group
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Children enrolled in public pre-K: The relation of family life, neighborhood quality, and socioeconomic resources to early competence
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
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
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
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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Effects of childcare responsibility and self-efficacy on the wellness of working women with young children
An analysis of the relationship between child care responsibility and efficacy beliefs and the well-being and stress level of employed, married mothers with young children, based on a sample of 117 women with children under age 6, from Staten Island, New York
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The effects of on-site child care arrangements on associate degree attainment among poor urban women in the Bronx, New York
A dissertation concerning the effects of structured, on-site child care arrangements within a higher education setting on associate degree attainment among poor urban minority women in the Bronx, New York
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Employed rural, low-income, single mothers' family and work over time
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
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)
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
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
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
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
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
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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Relationship-based, dyadic Early Head Start intervention
An evaluation of whether videotape analysis intervention combined with Early Head Start services has a greater effect on maternal responsiveness as compared with the effects of the services as the sole intervention
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