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Kristen Joyce and Sheena McConnell, Mathematica
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U.S. Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation
This brief shares how coaches may help TANF recipients and other low-income individuals use and strengthen self-regulation skills to meet employment goals.
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Families and Individuals in Societal Contexts
Family Resource Management
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Developing a Smartphone Application with Fathers, for Fathers
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Rekha Balu, Shawna J. Lee, and Samantha Steimle
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Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation
This brief describes how MDRC collaborated with fathers to develop an app called DadTime to support engagement with and attendance at a parenting program.
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Family Life Education Methodology
Family Resource Management
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Bureau of Labor Statistics
In 2016, 22 percent of workers did some or all of their work at home on days they worked. The survey also measures time spent on childcare, leisure, and more
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Family Resource Management
Families and Individuals in Societal Contexts
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Department of Health & Human Serrvices
The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) released a brief examining income and employment patterns of working families.
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Family Law and Public Policy
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This report looks at electronic media products for very young children – babies, toddlers, and preschoolers – that are marketed to parents as educational.
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Families and Individuals in Societal Contexts
Family Resource Management
Parent Education and Guidance
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This analysis of government time-use data looks at not only how much time parents spend on various activities, but how they feel while doing those activities.
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Parent Education and Guidance
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In 2010–11, 28% of lower-income workers, and 20% of all workers, worked most of their hours between 6 p.m. and 6 a.m. or on weekends.
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Families and Individuals in Societal Contexts
Family Resource Management
Parent Education and Guidance
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According to the USDA, a child born in 2012 will require $241,080 for food, shelter and other necessities over the next 17 years.
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Family Resource Management
Parent Education and Guidance
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America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2013 is a compendium of indicators depicting both promises and challenges confronting young people.
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Families and Individuals in Societal Contexts
Family Resource Management
Human Growth and Development Across the Lifespan
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Researchers of the Equality of Opportunity Project aimed to study the impact of tax expenditures on intergenerational mobility.
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Family Law and Public Policy
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Human Growth and Development Across the Lifespan
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This brief by the Urban Institute and First Focus examines unemployment from a child's perspective.
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Family Law and Public Policy
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Human Growth and Development Across the Lifespan
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This Child Trends analysis found that local cost of living is correlated with child development outcomes.
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Human Growth and Development Across the Lifespan
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Generally, spending more time on the job is associated with an increase in work-spouse conflict which, in turn, is associated with less marital satisfaction.
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Families and Individuals in Societal Contexts
Family Health
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by Christina M. Bobesky, M.S., doctoral student in Child and Family Studies at Syracuse University
Political and economic turmoil have challenged the stability of family life and national heritage in Ukraine for several decades.
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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Families and Individuals in Societal Contexts
Family Resource Management
Human Growth and Development Across the Lifespan
Religion and Families
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by Judith A. Seltzer, Professor, Department of Sociology and California Center for Population Research, UCLA. [email protected]
I believe that we need new U.S. data to answer the following questions: When do parents and adult children help each other? Why do they help? How do they help?
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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Families and Individuals in Societal Contexts
Family Health
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by Judith Treas, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology, University of California, Irvine
Housework has been a gold mine for research.
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Families and Individuals in Societal Contexts
Family Resource Management
Internal Dynamics of Families
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Family Law and Public Policy
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by Maria J. Kefalas, Ph.D., Saint Joseph's University, and Patrick Carr, Ph.D. Rutgers University
Without enough young people to purchase homes, hold jobs, pay taxes, and raise children, communities cannot survive.
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Families and Individuals in Societal Contexts
Family Law and Public Policy
Family Resource Management
Human Growth and Development Across the Lifespan