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Maelani Parker

The effect of parents' employment on outcomes for children | Joseph Rowntree Foundation - 0 views

  • Parents' employment patterns can have long-term consequences for their children's development
  • measured the impact on young people of having spent less time with their parents when they were young because of work arrangement
  • Although full-time work increased family income, less time for mothers to interact with their families tended to reduce children's later educational attainment
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  • - reduce the child's chances of obtaining A-level qualifications or their equivalent; - increase the child's risk of unemployment and other economic inactivity in early adulthood; - increase the child's risk of experiencing psychological distress as a young adult; - reduce the chances of daughters giving birth before the age of 21
  • The effects of fathers' employmen
  • - reduce the child's risk of unemployment and other economic inactivity in early adulthood; - reduce the child's risk of experiencing psychological distress as a young adult; - reduce the child's chances of obtaining A-level qualifications or their equivalen
  • The pre-school years are particularly important for a child's development
  • This suggests that longer periods of full-time employment by mothers when thei
  • children were pre-schoolers reduced children's educational attainments because of the reduction in the time available to spend with the child in these formative years
  • Children of more highly educated parents tended to have higher educational attainment
  • Higher earnings capacity for either parent was generally associated with higher educational attainments for their child and a lower risk of giving birth before the age of 21 for their daughter
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    This article shows many statistics on parents who spend time working outside the home. It focuses particularly on mothers and the pre-school years. This is relevant to my subtopic that focuses on education.
Maelani Parker

Divorce And How It Affects A Child - 0 views

  • There is much controversy about how divorce affects children. Many studies show that, to a child, divorce is equivalent to the pain of the death of the parent. There is a great loss, with grief and sadness, and confusion for the children. Children most always believe that they are the cause of the divorce. They think that the parent who left, actually left them or left because of them and that the parent doesn't love them anymore. Often the parents are so consumed in their own grief or turmoil that they fail to see the devastating effects of the breakup on the children.
  • Divorce affects children adversely in many ways. Children of divorce have more difficulty in school, more behavior problems, they often have low self esteem and think they are worthless and bad, more problems with peers and more trouble getting along with their parents.
  • Divorce can adversely affect a child, from their behavior, school, employment, relationships, and future marriage.
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  • Studies regarding teenage and adult females, parental divorce has been associated with lower self esteem, promiscuity and greater delinquent behaviors, as well as, difficulty maintaining long-term relationships. Girls experience the emotional loss of the father directly and personally. They believe it is a direct rejection of them. Many girls attribute this rejection to not being pretty enough, affectionate enough, athletic enough, smart enough, etc.
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    This article exemplifies a summary of the broad effects that divorce and breakdown of the family unit can have on the children of those families. These effects are primarily emotional, however they are proving to carry on into most, if not all, crucial aspects of their lives.
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