Sentences with phrase «likely as working mothers»

It turns out today's working fathers are just as likely as working mothers to say that finding the right balance between their job and their family life is a challenge for them, Pew Research Center has found.

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Our study found that employed fathers are almost twice as likely as mothers to have requests for flexible working turned down, and to fear that asking to work flexibly will damage their careers.

Christie - Mizell began the research thinking that mothers» work hours — since mothers overwhelmingly are the ones to care for and monitor children — would be more likely to have an impact on whether children exhibited bullying behavior such as being cruel to others, being disobedient at school, hanging around kids who get in trouble, having a very strong temper and not being sorry for misbehaving.

In turn, mothers who do not work outside the home are about twice as likely as those who do to say they never feel rushed.

And mothers who work part time are just as likely as those who work full time to say being a working mother has made it harder for them to move ahead in their job.

While some breastfeeding mothers prefer gentian violet as it is available without a prescription (ask the pharmacist, as it is likely behind the counter), often works as a one - time treatment, and can also be used to treat her own infection, it does have some downsides.

Indeed, new work by Sarah Hrdy (2009) and Lee Gettler (2010) illustrate the important role that direct care and investment by others likely played throughout human evolution, causing scientists to consider that we are really «cooperative breeders» insofar as individuals other than the mother have significantly enhanced the human infant survival.

The lower blood pressure seen in the breast - feeding mothers during acts of aggression, the researchers say, is an indication that the same mechanism is likely at work in humans as well.

Additional reasons for deciding not to breastfeed can include concern about the quality and quantity of breast milk, and partner and family support, which are common across developed and developing countries.10, 11 Women who decide not to breastfeed are also more likely to have smoked during their pregnancy, be primiparous mothers (i.e., having their first child), and to have a child born low birth weight or with complex health issues such as cystic fibrosis.9, 12 Prenatal and post-natal stressful experiences may also reduce the duration of breastfeeding.13 Finally, several studies suggest that mother's who return to work within the first 6 months postpartum or anticipate an early return to full - time employment, are less likely to breastfeed.

Although working mothers and fathers are almost as likely to think about family matters throughout the day, only for mothers is this type of mental labor associated with increased stress and negative emotions, according to new research to be presented at the 108th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association.

They will likely be full, but may work with you if you will act as a foster home for the mother and pups.

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Logistic regression analyses find that mothers with a varying work schedule, those who work more than 40 hours per week, those with more education, and those in families with the father as main child care provider are more likely to use multiple care arrangements.

The work of David DeGarmo, Gerald Patterson, and Marion Forgatch shows convincingly that learning how to improve parenting reduces mental health problems.79 Marjukka Pajulo and her colleagues have argued that strengthening mothers» positive connections to their children is likely to reduce their dependency on illicit substances as the rewards of successful parenting build neural pathways that compete with the desire for drugs.80

In an examination of four nationally representative samples in the USA, McLanahan and Sandefur (1994) showed that adolescents raised by single mothers during some period of their childhood were twice as likely to drop out of high school, twice as likely to have a baby before the age of 20 and one and a half times more likely to be out of work in their late teens or early twenties than those from a similar background who grew up with two parents at home.