“What we have seen in the way of adaptation and adjustment seems to indicate that families are adjusting parenting to the world ofwork, rather than the labor markets and industries responding to the parenting and family needs of their employees.” WorldWayNeedsSeemsIndustryLaborEmployeeAdaptationAdjustmentRespondingAdjusting Book:Parenting in an unresponsive society: managing work and family life Source: Parenting in an unresponsive society: managing work and family life
“Parents who are stressed or disturbed will have more difficulty in meeting their children's needs. Parents who have little support--from friends, relatives, neighbors, or the community--are more likely to be overburdened by the demands of their babies and to be unable to respond to them adequately. Parents who experience severe poverty or economic insecurity, who cannot satisfy their own basic needs, are likely to have difficulty in responding to their children's needs.” NeedsChildrenLittlesParentCommunityPovertySupportEconomicBabyDemandDifficultyMeetingsNeighborInsecuritySevereStressedDisturbedRespondingBasic Needs Author:Sheila Kamerman
“There is growing consensus that new parents need help--information, advice, practical assistance--and that infants and toddlers need stimulation as well as care and nurture.” NeedsWellsHelpingCareParentGrowingAdviceInformationPracticalsNurtureAssistanceInfantConsensusNeed HelpStimulationToddlerNew Parents Book:Starting Right: How America Neglects Its Youngest Children and what We Can Do about it Source: Starting Right: How America Neglects Its Youngest Children and what We Can Do about it