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Barnes, Medora W. – Journal of Family Issues, 2013
There are good reasons to suspect that the transition parents go through when having their second child may be different from when having their first, yet these differences remain understudied. This study focuses on one specific area of possible divergence by looking at how first-time versus second-time mothers decide on maternity leave length. To…
Descriptors: Public School Teachers, Family Work Relationship, Birth, Leaves of Absence
Kimmel, Jean, Ed.; Hoffman, Emily P., Ed. – 2002
These six research papers were presented as public lectures: "Federal Child Care Policy" (David M. Blau) outlined the role of the federal government in child care, the failure of market-based care programs, and the ideal goals of a federal child care policy as well as its cost (4 tables; 41 references); "Thinking About Child Care…
Descriptors: Birth Rate, Child Care, Child Development, Child Rearing