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abstract: 'Most working parents face a common dilemma-how to care for their
children when they are not in school but the parents are at work. In
this article Kathleen Christensen, Barbara Schneider, and Donnell Butler
describe the predictable and unpredictable scheduling demands school-age
children place on working couples and single working parents.
The authors assess the potential capacity of schools to help meet the
needs of working families through changes in school schedules and
after-school programs and conclude that the flexibility parents need to
balance family-work responsibilities probably cannot be found in the
school setting. They argue that workplaces are better able than schools
to offer the flexibility that working parents need to attend to basic
needs of their children, as well as to engage in activities that enhance
their children''s academic performance and emotional and social
well-being.
Two types of flexible work practices seem especially well suited to
parents who work: flextime arrangements that allow parents to coordinate
their work schedules with their children''s school schedules, and
policies that allow workers to take short periods of time off-a few
hours or a day or two-to attend a parent-teacher conference, for
example, or care for a child who has suddenly fallen ill. Many companies
that have instituted such policies have benefited through employees''
greater job satisfaction and employee retention.
Yet despite these measured benefits to employers, workplaces often fall
short of being family friendly. Many employers do not offer such
policies or offer them only to employees at certain levels or in certain
types of jobs. Flexible work practices are almost nonexistent for
low-income workers, who are least able to afford alternative child care
and may need flexibility the most.
Moreover the authors find that even employees in firms with flexible
practices such as telecommuting may be reluctant to take advantage of
them, because the workplace culture explicitly or implicitly stigmatizes
or penalizes employees for choosing these work arrangements. The authors
conclude by making a case for creating a workplace culture that supports
flexibility. Such a culture, they argue, would enable working parents to
better meet the responsibilities of their jobs as they care for and
build strong relationships with their children.'
affiliation: Schneider, Barbara, Michigan State Univ, E Lansing, MI 48824 USA.
author: Christensen, Kathleen and Schneider, Barbara and Butler, Donnell
author_list:
- family: Christensen
given: Kathleen
- family: Schneider
given: Barbara
- family: Butler
given: Donnell
da: '2023-09-28'
eissn: 1550-1558
files: []
issn: 1054-8289
journal: FUTURE OF CHILDREN
keywords-plus: 'PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT; EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES; ACADEMIC-ACHIEVEMENT;
AFRICAN-AMERICAN; METAANALYSIS; PATHWAYS; WORK; TIME'
language: English
month: FAL
number: '2'
number-of-cited-references: '97'
pages: 69-90
papis_id: 8ea5a24612251bec91e42d0656a1062e
ref: Christensen2011familiesschoolage
times-cited: '8'
title: Families with School-Age Children
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type: article
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unique-id: WOS:000296020800004
usage-count-last-180-days: '1'
usage-count-since-2013: '26'
volume: '21'
web-of-science-categories: 'Family Studies; Health Policy \& Services; Social Sciences,
Interdisciplinary'
year: '2011'