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Articles relating to parents’ work by some of the world’s top child and family researchers.

Research is looking at what impact work has on mothering and fathering. What work patterns most help parents to balance their responsibilities? What gendered attitudes to parents have to work and caring roles?

Professor Natasha J. Cabrera

Pay and play: to enhance early childhood development, fathers should do both

28th August 2018

Play with dad could help bridge cognitive, social and emotional learning gaps among low-income children.

early child development - paternity leave

Professor Philip Hwang

Parental leave promotes coparenting, a key to early child development

July 2018

Professor Lyndall Strazdins

Children object to losing time with fathers to 24/7 economy

July 2017

Parents’ working hours, far more than gender beliefs, influence how parents share care

April 2017

People less happy about work-family balance in countries with shorter working hours

January 2017

Dr Amanda Cooklin

Flexible, secure, autonomous work makes for a better father

January 2017

Parental leave promotes coparenting, a key to early child development

Children object to losing time with fathers to 24/7 economy

Parents’ working hours, far more than gender beliefs, influence how parents share care

Mothers of sons do more paid work than mothers of daughters

“Home alone” parental leave for dads transforms fatherhood

More trust breeds higher fertility

East and West may be reshaping each other’s parenting

People less happy about work-family balance in countries with shorter working hours

Flexible, secure, autonomous work makes for a better father

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