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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Assessing the optimal length of parental leave for child and parental well-being: How can research inform policy?
A review of literature on concerns associated with parental leave, encompassing mothers' labor market outcomes, childbirth and maternal recovery, parent-infant bonding, children’s cognitive development, breastfeeding, and gender equity objectives
Literature Review
Balancing work and family: The role of employer-supported child care benefits
A discussion of family benefits provided by employers, and possible influences on child care decisions as well as benefits to employers
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Child care choice in urban Thailand: Qualitative and quantitative evidence of the decision-making process
A qualitative and quantitative analysis of child care decision making in Bangkok, Thailand
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Child-care use among welfare mothers: A dynamic analysis
A study of welfare mothers' child care arrangements and usage trends, particularly the durability of child care arrangements in relationship to child care type and cost, and mothers’ subjective ratings of quality and their impact on the probability of changing or ending their current child care arrangements
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Child care, work, and depressive symptoms among low-income mothers
An examination of the correlation between symptoms of psychological depression among working mothers living in low income urban areas and variables associated with welfare participation, employment characteristics, and child care quality, based on data from 707 Philadelphia mothers participating in the Philadelphia Survey of Child Care and Work (PSCCW)
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Counting on grandmothers: Black mothers' and fathers' reliance on grandmothers for parenting support
A survey of young black parents’ reliance on grandmothers for child care assistance
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Difficult children and difficult parents: Constructions by child care providers
A survey-based examination of family home child care providers and their strategies of dealing with children with behavioral issues, including biting, physical aggression, unruliness, destruction, and loud children/screamers
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Early care and prekindergarten care as influences on school readiness
An examination of the relationship between children's early child care experiences and reading, math and several domains of socioemotional development at kindergarten entry, and the extent to which prekindergarten experiences mediate relationships between early child care participation and those outcomes, based on a secondary analysis of a nationally representative dataset
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Effects of divorce and cohabitation dissolution on preschoolers' literacy
A study of the association between children's early literacy and changes in the marital and cohabitation status of their parents, with an examination of the mediating roles of changes in household income, changes in depressive symptoms, changes in maternal stimulation of child learning, and mothers' pregnancy timing, based on data from approximately 6,450 children in the Early Childhood Longitudinal Survey-Birth cohort followed at 24 and 48 months
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Fathers' and mothers' work and family issues as related to internalizing and externalizing behavior of children attending day care
A study of the relation between fathers' and mothers' parenting stress and work-family conflict and children's internalizing and externalizing behaviors among middle and upper middle class, dual-earner couples with 18 to 48 month old children
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Fathers' child care and children's behavior problems: A longitudinal study
A study of the influence of father care on child behavioral problem outcomes, based on a longitudinal study of 600 white, non-Hispanic, two-parent families from the National Survey of Families and Households
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Head Start fathers' daily hassles and involvement with their children
A study of the relationship between Head Start fathers’ daily hassles and involvement with their children, focusing on factors of the father's biological status, child's gender, paternal education, and work hours
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Head Start fathers' involvement with their children
A description and comparison of residential, nonresidential, biological and stepfather quality of involvement with their children from 78 interviews with mothers of children enrolled in a Head Start program in a county in southeastern Michigan
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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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Is it there when you need It?: Mismatch in perception of future availability and subsequent receipt of instrumental social support
An examination of associations between belief in the future of instrumental support (availability of child care, temporary housing, and financial assistance), the subsequent reaction to inadequate support, and the experience of a major depressive event in a socioeconomically diverse sample of new mothers from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, a Longitudinal sample of 4,898 children, including 3,712 children born to unmarried parents and 1,186 born to married parents in 20 large American cities
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Market child care versus care by relatives: Choices made by employed and nonemployed mothers
A study on the variation between market and family-based child care for preschool children in metropolitan Detroit based on economic and non-economic maternal factors
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Multigenerational households and the school readiness of children born to unmarried mothers
Following the ongoing increase in nonmarital fertility, policy makers have looked for ways to limit the disadvantages faced by children of unmarried mothers. Recent initiatives included marriage promotion and welfare-to-work programs. Yet policy might also consider the promotion of three generational households. We know little about whether multigenerational households benefit children of unwed mothers, although they are mandated for unmarried teen mothers applying for welfare benefits. Multigenerational households are also becoming increasingly common. Thus, using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (N = 217), this study examines whether grandparent-headed coresidential households benefit preschool-aged children's school readiness, employing propensity score techniques to account for selection into these households. Findings reveal living with a grandparent is not associated with child outcomes for families that select into such arrangements but is positively associated with reading scores and behavior problems for families with a low propensity to coreside. The implications of these findings for policy are discussed. (author abstract)
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Parental decision making about child care
A study of the relative influence of various features of child care arrangements on maternal choice of arrangements, and a study of the association between these features and the characteristics of mothers, based on the questionnaire responses of 355 mothers
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Parenting in the workplace: Examining a unique infant care option
A study of workers' attitudes toward an infant child care program in which parents care for their infants on site
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Partisanship of politics of austerity?: Child care policy development in Ontario and Alberta, 1980 to 1996
A comparison of the influence of party politics on child care policy in the Canadian provinces of Alberta and Ontario from 1980 to 1996.
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Paternal participation in child care and its effects on children's self-esteem and attitudes toward gendered roles
An examination of the effects of parents’ division of child care responsibilities on 10- and 11- year-old children’s self-esteem, relationships with parents, and gender ideologies, based on a sample of 24 boys and 16 girls
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Poverty, race, and parental involvement during the transition to elementary school
A study of the relationships between math and reading achievement in spring kindergarten and race, parental involvement, and poverty, from a secondary analysis of data collected from 20,356 children in the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten Cohort
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Recent U.S. child care and family legislation in comparative perspective
A comparison of recent U.S. child care and family policies to four European nations (France, Hungary, Germany, and Sweden)
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Too old for child care?: Too young for self-care?: Negotiating after-school arrangements for middle school
An examination of structural and cultural factors influencing family negotiations about after school care, based on 48 interviews with preteens and parents in a California city, with a discussion of ways that middle schools and their communities can be more responsive to the needs of employed parents and families
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