ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews the prevalence and trends in parental employment, how trends in parental employment situated in the current global economy may shape parenting, and how that, in turn, may shape child cognitive, socioemotional, and physical well-being. It focuses on scholarship on child and family development in sociology, economics, demography, Parental Employment and psychology to examine how parental employment might be associated with parenting and why it is important for children’s well-being. Parental employment influences both the quality and quantity of parent-child time together. For some dual-earner families, non-daytime work schedules provide an alternative of managing childrearing tasks by jointly arranging employment schedules while protecting the time spent with the child. Parental employment is linked with how mothers and fathers parent, which is tremendously important for child development. The chapter explains how parental employment influences parenting in both positive and negative ways while considering various contextual factors.
