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Caring, Employment, and Quality of Life: Comparison of Employed and Nonemployed Mothers of Adults with Intellectual Disability
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Chou, Yueh-Ching; Pu, Cheng-Yun; Kroger, Teppo; Fu, Li-yeh – American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2010
The effects of caregiving on mothers of adults with intellectual disability was examined by determining whether there are differences in quality of life and related factors between mothers with different employment status. Study participants were 302 working-age mothers who had adult children with intellectual disability based on the 2008 census…
Descriptors: Employment Level, Mothers, Family Income, Mental Retardation
Excluding Mothers-in-Law: A Research Note on the Preference for Matrilineal Advice
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Marx, Jonathan; Miller, Lee Q.; Huffmon, Scott – Journal of Family Issues, 2011
With whom do parents discuss medical and behavioral child-rearing questions? In a telephone survey of 167 parents (49 fathers and 118 mothers) in the southern United States, the authors found that mothers express a clear preference for their own mother's advice as opposed to that of their mother-in-law. Fathers are less likely to consult any…
Descriptors: Mothers, Parent Attitudes, Telephone Surveys, Fathers
Functional Health Literacy and Mental Health in Urban and Rural Mothers of Children Enrolled in Early Intervention Programs
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Pizur-Barnekow, Kris; Doering, Jennifer; Cashin, Susan; Patrick, Timothy; Rhyner, Paula – Infants and Young Children, 2010
"Functional health literacy," a component of health literacy, refers to the ability to read and interpret medical information. The Short Test of Functional Health Literacy in Adults (S-TOFHLA) measures the ability to read and interpret medical information. The purpose of this pilot study was to assess and compare levels of maternal functional…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Health Education, Mothers, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
Economic Implications of Caregiving at Midlife: Comparing Parents with and without Children Who Have Developmental Disabilities
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Parish, Susan L.; Seltzer, Marsha Mailick; Greenberg, Jan S.; Floyd, Frank – Mental Retardation: A Journal of Practices, Policy and Perspectives, 2004
We compared the economic well-being and maternal employment of parents whose children did or did not have developmental disabilities. This prospective study is a secondary analysis of data from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study, collected when respondents were aged 18, 36, and 53, on average. Although the two groups were similar at age 18, income…
Descriptors: Adults, Developmental Disabilities, Parents, Well Being
Women, Work and Child Care.
Mercer, Elizabeth – 1989
This fact sheet provides an array of statistical data on working mothers, such as the need for child care, the child care providers, who supports child care, and work and family. Data sources include a number of federal government and private organizations. Among the statistics highlighted are the following: (1) in 1988, 65 percent of all women…
Descriptors: Adults, Child Care Occupations, Child Caregivers, Children
Parenting in the 1990s.
Ferri, Elsa; Smith, Kate – 1996
This study examined family formation, employment, child-care arrangements, parenting, family activities, and attitudes and values of British parents. Subjects were nearly 6,000 British 33-year-old married parents, originally subjects in the longitudinal National Child Development Study, which traced the lives of all those in Great Britain born in…
Descriptors: Adults, Child Rearing, Day Care, Employed Parents