Working Families and Growing Kids : Caring for Children and Adolescents.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (366 pages)
FrontMatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Executive Summary -- 1 Setting the Stage -- Part I: Work, Family, and Child Care Trends -- 2 Work and Family Trends -- 3 Trends in the Care of Children -- Part II: Implications for the Development of Children and Adolescents -- 4 Maternal Employment and the Family Environment -- 5 Effects of Child Care -- 6 Parental Employment and Adolescent Development -- 7 Effects of Welfare Reform -- Part III: Supports for Working Families -- 8 Policies to Support Working Families -- 9 Findings and Next Steps -- References -- Biographical Sketches -- Index.
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Child welfare--United States--Congresses. Children of working parents--Care--United States. School-age child care--United States--Congresses. Child development--United States--Congresses. Work and family--Government policy--United States--Congresses.