{"id":205,"date":"2002-07-17T09:45:38","date_gmt":"2002-07-17T09:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/wp\/?p=205"},"modified":"2002-07-17T09:45:38","modified_gmt":"2002-07-17T09:45:38","slug":"study-links-working-mothers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=205","title":{"rendered":"Study Links Working Mothers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2002\/07\/17\/education\/17CHIL.html\">Study Links Working Mothers to Slower Learning<\/a>  This is sure to stir up a hornets&#8217; nest.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;What we found was that when mothers worked more than 30 hours by the time their children were 9 months old, those children, on average, did not do as well on school-readiness tests when they were 3 years old,&#8221; said Jeanne Brooks-Gunn of Columbia&#8217;s Teachers College, the lead author of the study. &#8220;In other work we&#8217;ve done, we&#8217;ve seen that those negative effects of early full-time maternal employment persist among children who are 7 or 8.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>  I wonder if the researchers controlled for breast-fed babies vs. bottle-fed?  Surely, women who are back in the work force are less likely to be nursing at 9 months than those who are home.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a couple of sad quotes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We really looked at different questions,&#8221; Ms. Waldfogel said. &#8220;They looked at early child care, while we looked at early maternal employment. You&#8217;d think that those would be the same, but it turns out that a third of the nonworking mothers put their children in child care before 9 months.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the families studied, 55 percent of the mothers were working by the third month, 71 percent by the sixth month and 75 percent by the ninth month.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Study Links Working Mothers to Slower Learning This is sure to stir up a hornets&#8217; nest. &#8220;What we found was that when mothers worked more than 30 hours by the time their children were 9 months old, those children, on average, did not do as well on school-readiness tests when they were 3 years old,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}