Parents' Jobs and Children's LivesTransaction Publishers - 214 Seiten Parents' Jobs and Children's Lives considers the effects of parental working conditions on children's cognition and social development. It also investigates how parental work affects the home environments that parents create for their children, and how these home environments influence the children directly. The theoretical underpinnings of the book draw from both sociology and economics; in addition, the authors make use of literature derived from developmental psychology. Theoretically eclectic, they rely on the personality and social structure framework developed by Melvin Kohn and his colleagues, on arguments regarding the importance of family social capital developed by James Coleman, as well as on ideas from Gary Becker's "new home economics" as guides to model specification. The empirical basis for Parcel and Menaghan's study is a series of multivariate analyses using data drawn from the 1986 and 1988 waves of the National Longitudinal Survey's Child-Mother data set. This data set matches longitudinal data on mothers, derived from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, with data on the children of these mothers born as of 1986. Children aged 3 to 6 were given age-appropriate developmental assessments every two years in order to assess the influence of parental work on short-term changes in their cognition and social behavior. The authors also devote considerable attention to the effects of fathers' work and family structure on the well-being of their children. Parcel and Menaghan's work brings evidence to bear on both the theoretical perspectives guiding the analyses and on current policy debates regarding the nexus of work and family. |
Inhalt
How Do Parents Jobs Affect Childrens Lives? | 1 |
Changes in Parental Paid Work 1960s1980s | 5 |
Can Current Theory Suggest How Parents Jobs Affect Childrens Lives? | 8 |
How Does Parental Occupational Complexity Influence Childrens Lives? | 13 |
Parental Wages and Childrens Lives | 17 |
Parental Paid Work Hours Influence Childrens Lives | 18 |
How Does Family Structure Affect Childrens Lives? | 19 |
How Do Characteristics of Parents and the Children Themselves Affect Childrens Lives? | 20 |
Notes | 105 |
Early Parental Work Family Social Capital and Early Childhood Outcomes | 107 |
Sample and Methods | 111 |
Findings | 112 |
Summary and Discussion | 120 |
Notes | 123 |
The Cumulative Effects of Work and Family Conditions on Cognitive and Social Outcomes Early Recent and Current Effects Reconsidered | 125 |
AFQT and Self | 126 |
Do Mothers Jobs Affect Children More Than Fathers Jobs? | 24 |
How Might Changes in Parental Paid Work and Family Structure Affect Child Development? | 26 |
Do These Processes Hold Uniformity across Social Groups and Conditions? | 28 |
Plan of the Book | 29 |
Data Samples and Variables | 31 |
Measures | 33 |
Weighting Missing Data and Analytical Strategy | 43 |
Testing for Statistical Interaction | 44 |
Notes | 45 |
Parents Jobs and Childrens Home Environments | 47 |
Findings | 49 |
Summary and Discussion | 60 |
Notes | 63 |
Parents Jobs and Childrens Cognition | 67 |
Predicting Later Reading and Arithmetic Skills | 73 |
Summary and Discussion | 81 |
Notes | 86 |
Parents Jobs and Childrens Behavior Problems | 87 |
Theoretical Background | 89 |
Sample and Methods | 93 |
Findings | 94 |
Summary and Discussion | 103 |
Patterning of Work and Family Conditions | 127 |
Assessing Cumulative Models of 1988 Child Outcomes | 141 |
Comparing Alternative Specifications | 151 |
Summary and Discussion | 153 |
Notes | 154 |
Conclusions Work Family and Young Childrens Lives | 157 |
Effects on Child Outcomes | 159 |
Mothers versus Fathers | 160 |
A Reassessment | 162 |
Initial Parental Social Advantages and Childrens Outcomes | 166 |
Ethnic and Gender Differences in Processes Affecting Children | 167 |
Limitations of Our Investigation | 168 |
The Dangers and Dividends of Maternal Employment | 169 |
How Do Our Findings Informed Theory? | 170 |
How Do Our Findings Inform Current Policy? | 174 |
Can Our Findings Guide Parents in Making Choices for Their Families? | 176 |
Supplemental Child Care Arrangements Determinants and Consequences | 179 |
The NLSY Data | 183 |
Summary and Discussion | 189 |
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