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O'Brien, Maeve – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2008
This paper is concerned with the inequalities experienced by mothers in the performance of educational care work for their children. It is argued that the caring work carried out by mothers at transfer to second-level schooling is shaped by their ability to activate the significant resource of emotional capital; a gendered resource involving…
Descriptors: Mothers, Gender Issues, Social Bias, Parent Role
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Jenkins, Jennifer; Simpson, Anna; Dunn, Judy; Rasbash, Jon; O'Connor, Thomas G. – Child Development, 2005
This within-family, longitudinal study including biological and stepfamilies investigated mutual influences between marital conflict and children's behavior problems. Children (4 to 17 years; N296) residing in 127 families drawn from a general population study were investigated at Time 1 and again 2 years later. These nested data were analyzed…
Descriptors: Child Behavior, Behavior Problems, Siblings, Conflict