Background There is an unequivocal relationship between socio-economic status and child well-being. The Family Stress Model of economic hardship proposes that this mediated by financial hardship, parenting stress behaviours. In study, the tested analysis extended to examine main moderating effects social support. Methods A survey incorporating well-validated measures stress, behaviours difficulties was sent 1296 parents who had utilized universal family support services in Alberta, Canada....

This article demonstrates how the combined approaches of informed pluralism and disciplined integration can help rebridge distance between seemingly disparate academic worlds family science business. The authors establish need for such a resynthesis by documenting trends within enterprise research from 1985 to 2010. analysis vividly illustrates not only increased dominance publication outlets theoretical perspectives associated with business but also near disappearance those family. In light...

The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act ( MGNREGA ) was developed by the Indian government to reduce rural poverty through 100 days of guaranteed employment per year. Using focus group methods, we explore whether this scheme has provided rights' based social protection for Scheduled Castes, Tribes and women in Kerala, Tamil Nadu Odisha. We found that experiences participating varied depending on how wages compared market region, as well local implementation program....

This research note focuses on interpreter-facilitated cross-language qualitative interviews. Although researchers have written about strategies and procedures for working with interpreters, rarely they offered adequate detail to determine the relative merits of various approaches, little attention has been paid influence that interpreters validity data. We advance this body literature by describing critically examining we used work an interpreter conduct interviews Mandarin-speaking...

This article represents a call to family scholars for help in examining the effects of business ownership on families. To demonstrate importance this call, we illustrate extent which new venture creation is encouraged by policymakers and estimate number families engaged entrepreneurial activity around globe. We then summarize emergent critiques questioning glorification entrepreneurship general review limited body scholarly work particular. conclude outlining potential research agendas...

This paper explores resilience in families of children with disabilities the Province Alberta, Canada. Utilizing Ungar's social ecology resilience, we present an analysis 78 responsive interviews drawn from a three-year multimethod study. We show that who reported doing well were able to conduct their lives 'business as usual' approach daily lives, contrast struggling and had disability overtaken day-to-day routines activities. Exploring factors led these experiences, importance context...

Like other liberal-welfare states, Canada, in a climate of balanced budgets and deficit reduction, has been active developing policies intended to move welfare recipients into employment order achieve selfsufficiency. The purpose this paper is employ critical feminist analysis examine the extent which these policies, developed under ideological umbrella neo-liberalism, are gender sensitive. Literature on economic non-economic impacts welfare-to-work reviewed evaluate whether initiatives,...

This article examines the notion of self-sufficiency as central goal recent policy efforts in Canada to move social assistance recipients into labor market. The authors base their examination on a longitudinal, institutional-ethnographic study 17 welfare-to-work participants attempting make transition from employment province Alberta, Canada. Findings thematic analysis in-depth interviews with about day-to-day experiences show that there is considerable gap between "the promise" and reality"...

ABSTRACT The Triple P Positive Parenting Program is a multilevel system of behaviour‐based parenting training and support. aim this study was to determine whether implementation levels 2 3 the system, designed for primary care settings, enhances parent, child family outcomes compared with services‐as‐usual in Alberta, Canada. employed quasi‐experimental, single‐blind post‐test‐only design. A survey incorporating outcome measures administered sample 1296 parent‐clients. total 923 parents...

In the majority of Canadian provinces, child care system is characterized by a lack regulated, affordable, and accessible spaces. Given that mothers continue to be primarily responsible for children, such limited options may prompt them make self-sacrifices mitigate constraints. This study explores question: what messages sacrifice are embedded in mothers' stories about their experiences with navigating care? Thirteen focus groups were conducted five locations across Province Alberta 95...

Using discursive policy analysis, we analyse recent Australian childcare reform. By examining the framings of two successive governments and a union, demonstrate how value care work was strategically positioned by each three actors, constructing differing problems with different solutions. We argue that women’s recognised one government as valuable professional when it aligned an educational investment framing enhanced productivity. This capitalised upon union campaign for ‘professional’...

Using a critical feminist theoretical lens, we followed 17 families for one year – as they attempted to make the transition from welfare work eliciting narrative accounts of their day-to-day lives. We used an institutional–ethnographic methodology analyse data. Our study shows that juncture at which unpaid caring and paid employment meet may be more difficult negotiate low-income lone-parent than coupled, middle-class employed families. Findings reveal happened on edges day, what refer 'the...

The study purpose was to explicate meanings, expectations, and contexts of parenting as women men prepared become parents for the first time. We used a prospective, qualitative design informed by symbolic interactionist critical feminist perspectives. In-depth interviews were conducted during pregnancy with 21 expectant mothers 18 fathers, including couples reflecting socioeconomic cultural diversity in western Canadian city. identified main theme life-altering all-consuming responsibility...

We examined first-time fathers' and mothers' perspectives about their ideal world of support in the context dominant social ideology, ethno-cultural ideals, pragmatics everyday family, workplace, socioeconomic circumstances during first 18 months as parents. Twelve Canadian-born six Chinese immigrant couples participated individual in-depth interviews. conducted a three-part analysis: perspectives, couples' perspectives. Fathers focused on fulfilling dual fathering ideals 'time with family'...

This article aims to explore how child care is organized in families, documenting mothers produce their individual solution, or "patchwork", within the context of Canada's underfunded and fragmented system. In a sample 109 from Alberta, Canada, where conceptualized as primarily private family responsibility, we use an ecocultural theoretical framework gender lens 1) identify constraints that influenced what kinds used, 2) organization day-to-day arrangements, 3) explicate accommodations...

Mothers are often viewed as encumbered workers, juggling multiple responsibilities in paid and reproductive work. In this article, we examine the experiences of mothers with preschool children Canada, using a socio-ecological framework critical-feminist lens to explore micro macro environments that shape women's home work lives. To do analysis, completed demographic surveys, focus groups, individual interviews 58 Province Alberta, Canada. The key finding discussed article is for many...

• Summary: Parent support needs and family service (FSS) outcomes were investigated. A total of 923 parent participants recruited through 20 community-based FSS providers in Alberta, Canada. Participants completed a survey, incorporating well validated child, outcome measures, minimum 8–12 weeks after utilizing their FSS. Findings: Overall, need satisfaction was high. However, low socio-economic status, English as second language, parental disability or chronic health condition, child...

This article explores the motivations for unregulated child care use within Canada. Using focus group data from 109 mothers, we analyze a policy context in which regulated is only available 20% of preschool children. The key drivers were framed by participants as benefits: trust known caregiver with similar values, offered home-like environment. Importantly, one driver that was not seen beneficial lack affordable and accessible, care. Sometimes used last resort amid shortages, became how...

Parents and non-parental adults who interact with children influence child development. This study evaluates the knowledge of development in two large diverse samples from Alberta 2007 2013. Telephone interviews were completed by random (1,443 2007; 1,451 2013). Participants asked when specific milestones physical, cognitive, emotional social domains typically occur (age birth to six years). Data analysed using univariate multivariate techniques. Linear logistic regression models used...

In this article, we delineate the pathways by which mothers' strategies to integrate work and family emerge during early years of parenthood. We conducted a secondary analysis 100 interviews with 17 families from longitudinal, qualitative data set that explored women's strategizing about work-family integration Using Critical Feminist Theory principles Institutional Ethnography, examined ways in contextual factors, including couple level processes, individual preferences, interacted shape...