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Author Hoffman, Lois Wladis, 1929-2015.

Title Mothers at work : effects on children's well-being / Lois W. Hoffman, Lise M. Youngblade with Rebekah Levine Coley, Allison Sidle Fuligni, Donna Dumm Kovacs
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999

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Description Electronic book
xiii, 338 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Series Cambridge studies in social and emotional development
Cambridge studies in social and emotional development.
Contents 1. Introduction and Review of the Literature -- 2. Methodology -- 3. Children's Daily Family Lives: The After-School Day Interview -- 4. The Husband-Wife Relationship -- 5. The Mother's Well-being -- 6. Childrearing -- 7. Maternal Employment and Child Outcomes: The Direct Relationships -- 8. The Father's Role, Gender Attitudes, and Academic Outcomes -- 9. The Mother's Well-being and Child Outcomes -- 10. Childrearing Patterns and Child Outcomes -- 11. Nonmaternal Care and Supervision: Prevalence and Effects of Child-care Arrangements on Child Well-being -- 12. Summary and Overview -- App. Measures Developed for This Study
Summary "This important book examines the effects of the mother's employment on family life and children's well-being. It starts with a thorough review of previous research on this topic and then reports the results of a study designed to answer the key questions that emerge. The study focuses on 369 families with an elementary school child, living in an industrialized city in the Midwest. They include both one-parent and two-parent families, African Americans and Whites, and a broad range of economic circumstances. Extensive data have been obtained from mothers, fathers, children, teachers, classroom peers, and school records. The analysis reveals how the mother's employment status affects the father's role, the mother's sense of well-being, and childrearing patterns and how these, in turn, affect the child."--BOOK JACKET
"Mothers at Work provides an intimate picture of urban life and how families cope with mothers' employment. It will be valuable reading for social workers, therapists, policy makers, and scholars in child development and women's studies."--BOOK JACKET
Notes Title from publishers bibliographic system (viewed on 22 Dec 2011)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-326) and indexes
Subject Children of working mothers -- United States.
Families -- United States.
Parenting -- United States.
Working mothers -- United States.
Child Development.
Mother-Child Relations.
Parenting.
Author Youngblade, Lise M. (Lise Marie)
LC no. 98049508
ISBN 0521572894 (hardback)
0521668964 (paperback)