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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826819603321

Titolo

Working families and growing kids : caring for children and adolescents / / Committee on Family and Work Policies ; Eugene Smolensky and Jennifer Appleton Gootman, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : National Academies Press, c2003

ISBN

0-309-16818-X

1-280-18288-1

9786610182886

0-309-52587-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

xi, 354 p. : ill

Altri autori (Persone)

SmolenskyEugene

GootmanJennifer Appleton

Disciplina

362.7/0973

Soggetti

Child welfare - United States

Children of working parents - Care - United States

School-age child care - United States

Child development - United States

Work and family - Government policy - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Board on Children, Youth, and Families, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education."

"This report is a product of the Committee on Family and Work Policies, a project of the National Research Council (NRC) and the Institute of Medicine (IOM)"--P. vii.

A report based on presentations from a one-day October 2001 Workshop on Caring for Infants and Toddlers convened by the Committee, with additional data from other researchers and consultants.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-326) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.