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Combining work and family: rewards or risks for children's mental health?

Date

Authors

Strazdins, Lyndall

O'Brien, Lean

Lucas, Nina

Rodgers, Bryan

Publisher

Elsevier

Abstract

Prevailing child psychopathology paradigms focus on caregiving in isolation from market work. Yet most children's caregivers - mothers and fathers - are also employed. Although policy and academic debate has voiced concerns that employment could hamper mo

Keywords

Keywords: child care; child health; employment; health risk; living standard; mental health; parental care; psychology; risk assessment; socioeconomic status; article; child; child behavior; child care; child health; child parent relation; cross-sectional study; ef Australia; Child mental health; Employment; Intergenerational health; Parents; Social determinants of health; Work and family

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1885/34801

Collections

ANU Research Publications

Source

Social Science and Medicine

Type

Journal article

DOI

10.1016/j.socscimed.2013.03.030