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Paternal involvement, maternal employment, and adolescents' academic achievement: an 11-year follow-up
1School of Social Work, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
The American Journal of Orthopsychiatry
|April 1, 1993
Abstract:
An 11-year follow-up study explored the effects of paternal involvement in child rearing and maternal employment in prior years on grades and educational expectations of a group of white, middle-class adolescents from intact families. Past maternal employment was found to be a more powerful predictor of children's academic performance and expectations than was amount of father involvement. Part-time maternal employment appeared to be optimal for children's academic expectations.