Ask the Children

by Galinsky, Ellen

• ISBN13: 9780688147525
• ISBN10: 0688147526
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-09-07
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publications

Summary

Asks children how they feel about working parents, and includes valuable data, such as the difference in parenting styles between mothers and fathers

Author Biography

Ellen Galinsky is cofounder and president of the Families and Work Institute, a Manhattan-based nonprofit center for research on the changing family, workplace, and community. A leading authority and speaker on work-family issues, she serves on many commissions and task forces and has worked with many companies in the United States and abroad. For twenty-five years she was on the faculty at the Bank Street College of Education, where she helped institute the field of work and family life. Her ground-breaking studies make nationwide headlines again and again. Recent studies include Women: The New Providers (1995) and the 1997 update of the National Study of the Changing Workforce, updated every five years. She is the author of sixteen books, including The Preschool Years (coauthored with Judy David) and The Six Stages of Parenthood. She lives with her family in upstate New York.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Overview: Why Ask the Children, and Why Now?	xiii
Introduction: Why and How This Study Was Conducted	xix
Reframing the Debate About Working and Children	1	(17)
How Children See Their Parents' Parenting Skills	18	(40)
Is It Quality Time or Quantity Time?	58	(38)
There Is Something About Work	96	(35)
There's Something About Family Life, Too	131	(37)
Spillover	168	(30)
How Do Work and Family Life Affect Us as Parents?	198	(28)
What Are We Teaching Children About Work and Family Life?	226	(27)
What Does the Future Hold?	253	(31)
How Do We Navigate Work and Family, and How Do We Ask the Children?	284	(47)
What Children Want to Tell the Working Parents of America	331	(26)
Afterword	357	(2)
Research Notes and References	359	(24)
A Word About the Photographs	383	(2)
Index	385