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Invested Mothering: An Intersectional Analysis of Mothers’ Feminized Breadwinning Strategies Under State-Mandated Child Support Arrangements
This article conceptualizes invested mothering to explain how mothers typically serve as both primary caregivers and financial providers under...
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Causes of child labor and working conditions in Ethiopia: evidence from temporary inter-rural child labor migrants from Sekela district
Child labor migration is a critical issue that has received limited attention from academic and policy domains in many develo** countries. This...
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Too Much, Too Little, or Just Right? Recent Changes to State Child Support Guidelines for Low-Income Noncustodial Parents
There are growing concerns that current child support guidelines may result in “too high” orders likely to go unpaid and resulting in substantial...
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Child Allowances and Work-Family Reconciliation Policies: What Best Reduces Child Poverty and Gender Inequality While Enabling Desired Fertility?
Recent legislative proposals in the United States to either institute a child allowance for all families or continue a temporary Covid-related child...
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What Is a Child?
As a nation, we are not in agreement of what a child is or how people of particular ages should be treated. This lack of agreement has contributed to...
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Evaluating the Role of Households' Food Security Status and Socioeconomic Determinants on Child Mortality in Nigeria
When addressing global development, it is imperative to recognize the relationship between food security and child mortality. Despite the targeted...
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Social Networks and Child Maltreatment
One of the most distinctive characteristics of parents who abuse or neglect their offspring is their social isolation. This chapter explores its...
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Income Support Policy Packages and Birth Outcomes in U.S. States: An Ecological Analysis
Research suggests that generous social welfare programs play a role in maternal and child health. However, most studies examine a single policy in...
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Understanding and Measuring Child Well-being in the Region of Attica, Greece: Round Five
This research paper aims to present the results of the implementation of the C.W.-SMILE tool that recorded child well-being in the second semester of...
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Understanding and Measuring Child Well-being in the Region of Attica, Greece: Round four
This paper aims to present the results of implementing a new, multi-dimensional and cumulative tool that records the well-being of children in the...
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Understanding and Measuring Child Well-Being in the Region of Attica, Greece: Round Three
This research paper aims to present the results of implementing a new multi-dimensional and cumulative tool that records child well-being, in the 2nd...
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Grandparental Support and Maternal Postpartum Mental Health
Support from grandparents plays a role in mothers’ perinatal mental health. However, previous research on maternal mental health has mainly focused...
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Pricing the priceless child 2.0: children as human capital investment
This article takes Viviana Zelizer’s (
1985 ) Pricing the Priceless Child to the new millennium. Zelizer documented the transformation between the 19th...
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Maternal Age at First Birth and Parental Support: Evidence From the UK Millennium Cohort Study
Using nationally representative data from the UK Millennium Cohort Study (n = 7396), we investigate whether the mother’s age at first birth is...
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Child Support, Consumption, and Labor Supply Decisions of Single-Mother Families
This study estimates the causal effect of child support on consumption and labor supply of single mother families. Using data from the 1999 to 2013...
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Psychometric Properties of the Chinese Version of the Highly Sensitive Child Scale Across Age Groups, Gender, and Informants
Sensory Processing Sensitivity (SPS) is theorized to be a fundamental trait capturing children’s general sensitivity to the environment. Yet,...
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Disentangling the Long-term Effects of Divorce Circumstances on Father–Child Closeness in Adulthood: A Mediation Analysis
Many studies have shown that the relationship between nonresidential fathers and their children in youth has a lasting influence on their...
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Understanding and Measuring Child Well-Being in the Region of Attica, Greece: Round Two
This paper aims to present the results of implementing a new, multi-dimensional, and cumulative tool that records child well-being in the first...
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The Fertility Response to Cutting Child-Related Welfare Benefits
Despite long-term interest in whether welfare benefits motivate fertility, evidence from research has not been consistent. This paper contributes new...
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Vaccine Inequality: The Ouroboros Within the Immunisation Social Order
Health is intimately connected to a number of social and economic inequalities at a range of scales. As an intervention that mitigates the risks...