Mothers' work conditions, income, and parenting of young children.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

In this study, we investigated the interplay of positive work conditions with parenting behaviors across children's first 4 years.

Background

Most mothers in the United States are employed in paid work during their children's early years. Research typically has focused on the ways that such employment can conflict with the intensive demands of parenting, but it can also help mothers socially and psychologically during this important period of children's development.

Method

Integrating federal survey data on occupational conditions with parenting reports of job flexibility and parenting behaviors from 5,250 mothers in the nationally representative Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Birth Cohort, we estimated how work conditions were associated with stimulatin

SUBMITTER: Sattler KMP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11068053 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature