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Working families and growing kids : caring for children and adolescents
- Author / Creator
- Conferences
- Workshop on Caring for Infants and Toddlers (2001 : Washington, D.C.)
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- Creator
- Committee on Family and Work Policies ; Eugene Smolensky and Jennifer Appleton Gootman, editors
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, [2003]
- ©2003
- Physical Details
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- xi, 354 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780309087032, 6610182884, 0309087031, 9786610182886, 9780309525879, 030952587X, 1280182881, 030916818X
- OCLC
- ocm52602738, ocm61515931, ocn923259590
- "Board on Children, Youth, and Families, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education; National Research Council Institute of Medicine of the National Academies."
- "The funding for this project was provided by the Foundation for Child Development, the Ford Foundation, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, and NRC internal funds"--P. vii.
- "This report is a product of the Committee on Family and Work Policies, a project of the National Research Council (NRC) and the Institute of Medicine (IOM)"--P. vii.
- A report based on presentations from a one-day October 2001 Workshop on Caring for Infants and Toddlers convened by the Committee, with additional data from other researchers and consultants.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-326) and index.
- 1. Setting the stage -- 2. Work and family trends -- 3. Trends in the care of children -- 4. Maternal employment and the family environment -- 5. Effects of child care -- 6. Parental employment and adolescent development -- 7. Effects of welfare reform -- 8. Public policies to support working families -- 9. Findings and next steps