Childcare Duties Research Articles

Adolescent acting out when a parent has cancer

The psychological stresses which cancer exerts on a family system can be immense, both situationally and developmentally. These stresses can be unusually intense for the adolescent who has a parent ill with cancer. They can impact upon the adolescent in overt ways, such as increased household or child care duties, or in more covert ways such as in subtle role shifts in the relationship between the adolescent and both the ill and the well parent. The covert role shifts are especially thought to promote acting out and potential decompensation on the part of the adolescent. The acting out can have system-defecting and sytem-unifying properties, with the decompensation secondary to unbearable role shifts that reintensify the adolescent emotional contact with parents in the midst of a developmental process of separation. General clinical intervention points are suggested to reduce the crisis and ameliorate the negative developmental potential.

Employed breastfeeding mothers: problems they encounter.

ABSTRACT: A survey of 567 self‐selected respondents who breastfed while employed outside the home was conducted to assess the legitimacy of the assumption that breastfeeding and maternal employment combine poorly. Eighty‐six per cent of the respondents identified one or more difficulties, most of which were common to all parents. Breastfeeding problems were, with few exceptions, unrelated to employment. The respondents' most significant difficulty was role overload, a result of multiple demands to which they were responding. The results suggest that specific information about breastfeeding, encouragement in setting priorities, and involving the mother's partner and others in household and child care duties may reduce the level of stress of working mothers who breastfeed.

Women, Work, and Family.Frank L. MottWorking Women: A Study of Women in Paid Jobs.Ann Seidman

Previous articleNext article No AccessBook ReviewsWomen, Work, and Family. Frank L. Mott Working Women: A Study of Women in Paid Jobs. Ann Seidman Marta TiendaMarta Tienda Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by American Journal of Sociology Volume 87, Number 5Mar., 1982 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/227578 Views: 1Total views on this site Citations: 7Citations are reported from Crossref Copyright 1982 The University of ChicagoPDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Laura D. Pittman, Michelle K. Boswell Low-Income Multigenerational Households, Journal of Family Issues 29, no.77 (Jan 2008): 851–881.https://doi.org/10.1177/0192513X07312107Laura D. Pittman Grandmothers' Involvement Among Young Adolescents Growing Up in Poverty, Journal of Research on Adolescence 17, no.11 (Mar 2007): 89–116.https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1532-7795.2007.00513.xLaura D. Pittman, Michelle K. Boswell The Role of Grandmothers in the Lives of Preschoolers Growing Up in Urban Poverty, Applied Developmental Science 11, no.11 (Jan 2007): 20–42.https://doi.org/10.1207/s1532480xads1101_2Kristen M. McCabe, Rodney Clark Family protective factors among urban African American youth, Journal of Clinical Child Psychology 28, no.22 (Jun 1999): 137–150.https://doi.org/10.1207/s15374424jccp2802_2Melvin N. Wilson, Christine Greene-Bates, Lamont McKim, Faith Simmons, Tiffany Askew, Judith Curry-El, Ivora D. Hinton African American family life: The dynamics of interactions, relationships, and roles, New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development 1995, no.6868 (Jan 1995): 5–21.https://doi.org/10.1002/cd.23219956803 Dennis P. Hogan , David J. Eggebeen , and Clifford C. Clogg The Structure of Intergenerational Exchanges in American Families, American Journal of Sociology 98, no.66 (Oct 2015): 1428–1458.https://doi.org/10.1086/230194Melvin N. Wilson, Timothy F. J. Tolson, Ivora D. Hinton, Michael Kiernan Flexibility and sharing of childcare duties in black families, Sex Roles 22, no.7-87-8 (Apr 1990): 409–425.https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00288161

Role Reorganization in the One-Parent Family: Mother Absent Due to Death

The Research Problem Much family research has focused on the incomplete families resulting from divorce or the death of the father-husband. A review of the literature shows that nothing is really known about the widower and his children and his relationships with his kin and that of his deceased wife. It is the purpose of this research to examine one aspect of the American family that has almost completely escaped scientific attention; i.e., the dismembered family that results from the death of one of its key members, the wife-mother. More generally stated, the research problem is as follows: Is the death of the wife-mother defined as a crisis, in terms of role performance and reallocation? The organizing theoretical perspective is the crisis framework as for mulated by Hill, Parad and Caplan, and others. The family roles, especially those of the adults, are normatively constituted so that every participant has some degree of emotional soothing to do for each member of his or her nuclear family as well as objective task instrumentality. However, the mother's role is con sidered the basic organizer for daily living. Therefore, there is a need to understand the impact of her death on the family. Family budgets may be strained because of the necessity to pay for mother-substitutes and/or housekeepers who perform the tasks of the wife. If widowers do not hire mother-substitutes, do they turn to their families now more than in the past or rely on their wives' families? The study of these widowers is important because there is a gap in our knowledge about this type of family situation and its implications for child-rearing. Since the family is a basic socializing institution in society, policy implications are manifold. Someone must perform child care duties and take care of the home after the death of the wife mother if the family is to stay together. Administrators of assistance programs at all levels need to know who is brought in to assume the feminine role and the consequences of these various substitutes for the mental and social health of those in the dismembered families. The adjustment patterns and problems of the widowers have to be in