Working Mothers - What Effect on Children?

The number of working women, and particularly working mothers, has been steadily increasing. How does employment of mothers affect their children? Here are the results of a recent study on this timely problem

What Do Children Think of Their Parents?

Parents may not be so bad, after all, according to the answers of 730 boys and girls asked about some of their ideas about their parents. But the answers point to some possible weak spots from the youngsters\u27 point of view

Does Early Dating Lead to School-Age Marriage?

Parents of high school students know that marriage among school-age students is more frequent now than one or more decades ago. The percentage of students who marry before graduation is still relatively small but has been consistently increasing. We outlined the over-all picture on this increase in the June 1958 issue of IOWA FARM SCIENCE ( see What About School-Age Marriages? or reprint FS-761)

How Do Farm Families Adjust to City Life?

The over-all trends of rural and urban population changes are well known, but what of the individual families who move from farms to urban areas? A preliminary study of the situation in one Iowa city provides some clues

Factors related to employment of wives in a rural Iowa county

A greater proportion of married women are now in the labor force than at any previous time. However, research on relationships between the employment status of wives and family- and social-relationship variables has begun only recently. Furthermore, most of the research on family and community correlates of employment of wives has been limited to urban samples. This report is based on a sample of 111 farm and 175 non-farm families living in Greene County, Iowa. The data from these families should contribute to the understanding of factors related to employment of wives from rural and small town families. Two problems were investigated: ( 1) What factors are related to the employment decisions of wives? (2) What relationships exist between the employment of wives and selected family- and social-relationship variables? Employment decisions were studied in relation to three periods of employment: premarital employment, continuation of employment after marriage and employment during the past year

How Successful Are School-Age Marriages?

This article summarizes the results of a study of the success of a number of school-age marriages. The results indicate that, though some couples are prepared and ready for early marriage, aat least as many are not

Who Are Our Future Farm Homemakers?

A young woman\u27s future in our society depends a lot on the man she marries and his choice of a career and location. We found the plans of farm girls less definite than those of farm boys, but there are still some implications

Maternal employment, family relations and selected personality, school-related and social-development characteristics of children

In the past decade, the proportion of mothers entering the labor force while they have children living at home has increased greatly. Despite the theoretical relevance of maternal employment to the development of an adequate theory of personality development and the immediate applied value of data related to the impact of maternal employment on the development of children, adequate research on the relations between maternal employment and developmental characteristics of children has begun only recently. The present research represents a contribution to the small but accumulating body of research literature related to maternal employment and development of children. Four hypotheses were tested: (1) there is no relationship between maternal employment and the children\u27s perceptions of family relationships; (2) there is no relationship between maternal employment and selected personality characteristics of the children; (3) there is no relationship between maternal employment and school-related variables of the children; and (4) there is no relationship between maternal employment and selected social-relationship characteristics of the children. Five measures of maternal employment were used. These were the number of months the mothers were employed during five periods in the children\u27s lives: from the time the children were between 1 and 3 years of age; 4 and 6 years of age; 1 and 6 years of age; during the past 30 months; and during the entire lives of the children. The various dependent variables measured in this investigation were grouped under the four main areas specified in the hypotheses