What do children need to grow and develop? And how can their needs be met when parents
work? Emphasizing the importance of parental choice, quality of care, and work …

Parents around the world grapple with the common challenge of balancing work and child
care. Despite common problems, the industrialized nations have developed dramatically …

Since modern welfare reform began in the 1980s, we have seen low-income parents leave
the welfare rolls and join the workforce in large numbers. At the same time, the Earned …

Difficulties in balancing the competing needs of work and family life are probably greatest for
households with young children, defined for purposes of this discussion as the period of …

An informative mix of data and discussion, this book presents conclusions and
recommendations for policies that can respond to the new conditions shaping America's …

American families and workplaces have both changed dramatically over the past half-
century. Paid work by women has increased sharply, as has family instability. Education …

In the five years following the passage of federal welfare reform law, the labor force
participation of low-income, single mothers with young children climbed by more than 25 …

Low-skilled women in the 1990s took widely different paths in trying to support their children.
Some held good jobs with growth potential, some cycled in and out of low-paying jobs, some …

When mothers who have depended on welfare become employed, the change affects not
only welfare budgets and the women themselves, but the daily lives of the children who …

The papers in this book investigate the current state of knowledge about how families,
various formal and informal community institutions, the workplace, and the marketplace have …