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Working Mothers

What the Current Research Tells Us. Working Mothers. Did you know?. Current Research on Working Mothers has found. NO significant detrimental effects on a child's social or emotional development if their mothers work during their early years. ( McMunn , A., et al., 2011) . Did you know?.

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Working Mothers

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  1. What the Current Research Tells Us Working Mothers

  2. Did you know?

  3. Current Research on Working Mothers has found

  4. NO significant detrimental effects on a child's social or emotional development if their mothers work during their early years. (McMunn, A., et al., 2011)

  5. Did you know?

  6. Children of working mothers were rated as higher-achieving by teachers and had fewer problems with depression and anxiety. (Lucas-Thompson, R., et al., November 2010)

  7. Did you know?

  8. WorkingMothers… • had better mental health • were able to build healthier relationships within the family • boosted the household income • balanced all the different considerations and did the best thing for their families (Brooks-Gunn, J., Wen-Jui, H., & Waldfogel, J., 2010)

  9. ALL of which aided the child’s development & translated to many important benefits (Brooks-Gunn, J., Wen-Jui, H., & Waldfogel, J., 2010; Lucas-Thompson, R., et al., 2010)

  10. Let’s Celebrate Working Mothers & All They Do

  11. Citations • Blake, H. (August, 2010). “Working mothers do not harm their children, study finds.” The Telegraph. • Brooks-Gunn, J., Wen-Jui, H., & Waldfogel, J. (2010). “First-Year Maternal Employment and Child Development in the First Seven Years.” Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development 75(2): 1-147. • Lucas-Thompson, R.G, Goldberg, W.A., Prause, J. (November, 2010). Psychological Bulletin, Vol 136(6), 915-942. • McMunn, A., Kelly, Y., Cable, N., & Bartley, M. (2011). “Maternal employment and child socio-emotional behaviour in the UK: Longitudinal evidence from the UK millennium cohort study.” Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health doi:10.1136/jech.2010.109553.

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