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Mothers' transitions from welfare to work and the well-being of preschoolers and adolescents.
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Results from a longitudinal study of 2402 low-income families during the recent unprecedented era of welfare reform suggest that mothers' transitions off welfare and into employment are not associated with negative outcomes for preschoolers (ages 2 to 4 years) or young adolescents (ages 10 to 14 years). Indeed, no significant associations with mothers' welfare and employment transitions were found for preschoolers, and the dominant pattern was also of few statistically significant associations for adolescents. The associations that did occur provided slight evidence that mothers' entry into the labor force was related to improvements in adolescents' mental health, whereas exits from employment were linked with teenagers' increased behavior problems.
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Author/s: Chase-Lansdale, P Lindsay (PL); Moffitt, Robert A (RA); Lohman, Brenda J (BJ); Cherlin, Andrew J (AJ); Coley, Rebekah Levine (RL); Pittman, Laura D (LD); Roff, Jennifer (J); Votruba-Drzal, Elizabeth (E);
Affiliation: Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA. lcl(-atsign-)northwestern.edu
Journal and publication information
Publication Type: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.
Journal: Science (New York, N.Y.) (Science), published in United States. (Language: eng)
Reference: 2003-Mar; vol 299 (issue 5612) : pp 1548-52
Dates: Created 2003/03/07; Completed 2003/03/25; Revised 2007/11/15;
PMID: 12624259, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)
Sourced from the National Library of Medicine. Abstract text and other information may be subject to copyright.
Comments and Corrections
CommentIn: Science. 2003 Sep 5;301(5638):1325; author reply 1325. (PMID: 12958344)
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