The Impact of Parental Employment: Young People, Well-Being and Educational Achievement
| By: | Cusworth, Linda, Dr |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
| Print ISBN: | 9780754675594 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781409492016 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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In this groundbreaking study, Linda Cusworth explores the impact of parental employment or unemployment on the educational and emotional well-being of their children.
Using theoretical apparatus from Bourdieu and data from the youth survey of the British Household Panel Study, the research in this book analyzes the impact of parental employment on those born between 1978 and 1990. This study is unique in going beyond the educational achievement and later patterns of employment of the young people studied to look at the whole of children's lives, including their attitudes and aspirations, relationships and emotional well-being.
The changed norms of maternal employment and the substantial increase in lone parenthood over the last few decades make this an especially important study both for academics in social and public policy and sociology, and for policy makers.