Showing papers by "Toby L. Parcel published in 2016"
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show how fathers' roles are changing, with implications for social capital in families, and point to bonding with fathers as a possible mechanism for building social capital.
Abstract: Social bonds between parents and their children, an important form of social capital, promote children's cognition and their social adjustment. Both bonding and bridging social capital are consequential, as are parental norms and values, which vary by social class. Parents' working conditions, including occupational complexity and work schedules, influence children's home environments as well as their children's development. Family social capital is more important than school social capital in influencing both cognitive and social child outcomes. Recent studies show how fathers' roles are changing, with implications for social capital in families, and point to bonding with fathers as a possible mechanism for building social capital. We know relatively little about how different forms of capital, including financial, human, cultural, and social capital, combine to influence families and children. We need further analyses regarding how to build social capital, particularly for at-risk children.
42 citations
TL;DR: While youth in different groups build social capital in largely the same way, differences exist by race and sex as to how family social capital affects academic achievement.
17 citations
10 Oct 2016
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed how gender and other individual and family characteristics shape attitudes toward children's school assignments using a mixed-methods approach, and analyzed preferences preferences of parents.
Abstract: The authors analyze how gender and other individual and family characteristics shape attitudes toward children’s school assignments. Using a mixed-methods approach, the authors analyze preferences ...
15 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that successful integration efforts are at stake when one school district fights over school proximity and school balancing, and that the success of successful integration effort is at stake.
Abstract: Decades of successful integration efforts are at stake when one school district fights over school proximity and school “balancing.”
2 citations
01 Jan 2016
TL;DR: This paper discussed the importance of home environments for children's intellectual and emotional development and considered how home surroundings change when mothers begin jobs that are more rewarding or less rewarding, concluding that, while maternal employment is not necessarily harmful, if welfare recipients find only low-wage, stressful jobs, working may prove costly for both family and child wellbeing.
Abstract: Assumptions about the processes that link a mother's employment to the development of her child must underlie expectations about how children may fare when their mothers move from welfare dependence into employment. This article explores the idea, mentioned in the research overview by Zaslow and Emig in thisjournal issue, that the working conditions such as wages, work hours, and task complexity that mothers experience on the job can influence their behavior as parents and shape the home environments they provide for their children. This article discusses the significance of home environments for children's intellectual and emotional development and considers how home surroundings change when mothers begin jobs that are more rewarding or less rewarding. The authors conclude that, while maternal employment is not necessarily harmful, if welfare recipients find only low-wage, stressful jobs, working may prove costly for both family and child wellbeing. The authors recommend that welfare-to-work programs devote attention to (1) assisting mothers to obtain more complex work at good wages, (2) helping mothers understand the role home environments play in shaping children's development, and (3) encouraging parents to make their children's home surroundings as positive as possible.
2 citations