Parents and Children.: Changes in Childcare
In many families today, the job of childcare has been farmed out. While some see this as a source of serious family problems, others contend the impact of outside-the-home childcare has been mostly positive. Still, many experts contend that the ch...
The Growing Years: Does Daycare Impair Attachment?
For many children today childcare and preschool begin at an early age. A National Institute of Child Health and Human Development study shows that most children do well in daycare as long as the quality of childcare is good to excellent. They do not...
The Role of Gender: Changing Gender Roles at Home
The rapidly increasing number of women in the labor force has been both a cause and effect of the shift in gender roles in recent years. Women have had less time and often less energy to devote to their traditional role as homemaker. This has trig...
Family History: Changes in the American Family Since 1970
There has been an enormous shift in American family life since 1970. For example, childcare has become the most pressing problem in many American households, and gender roles have been substantially redefined. Many believe both of these facts can ...
Family History: Modern Family Juggles Responsibilities
Parents in a modern day blended family juggle their parenting responsibilities with professional obligations.
Families Today and Tomorrow: Family Challenges: Childcare
The growing participation of women in the labor force has led to dramatic changes in family life in the United States, particularly as regards children and childcare.
Working: Working Women and Childcare
Finding suitable childcare has increasingly become an important issue for nearly all working parents. In large part, this has come about because massive structural changes in the U.S. economy have brought working women into the labor force in grea...
Working: Government, Business and Family Policy
At one time, businesses didn't have to worry about families because most women were home taking care of their children full-time. With women now in the workforce in large numbers, that has changed. Still, many companies consider family challenges ...
Working: Gender in the Workplace
Gender has always been and remains important in the workplace. On average, men make more money than women do; their career trajectories are also frequently different, often due to stereotyping and traditional perspectives about gender roles.
Working: Profile of a Childcare Center
The need to balance the responsibilities of childcare and employment is an ongoing challenge for most working parents. In Temecula, California, "Our Kids Childcare Center" helps parents meet that need.