ArticleSocial problems2022
Who Cares if Parents have Unpredictable Work Schedules?: The Association between Just-in-Time Work Schedules and Child Care Arrangements.
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- Parenting without Predictability: Precarious Schedules, Parental Strain, and Work-Life Conflict.The Russell Sage Foundation journal of the social sciences : RSF · 2022Article
- Rising Inequality in Mothers' Employment Statuses: The Role of Intergenerational Transmission.Demography · 2021Article
- Hard Times: Routine Schedule Unpredictability and Material Hardship among Service Sector Workers.Social forces; a scientific medium of social study and interpretation · 2021Article
- Tag-Team Parenting: Trends in Work Schedule Synchronization among Families with Young Children.Socius : sociological research for a dynamic worldArticle
- Gender and Educational Variation in How Temporal Dimensions of Paid Work Affect Parental Child Care Time.Socius : sociological research for a dynamic worldArticle
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Abstract
Working parents must arrange some type of care for their young children when they are away at work. For parents with unstable and unpredictable work schedules, the logistics of arranging care can be complex. In this paper, we use survey data from the Shift Project, collected in 2017 and 2018 from a sample of 3,653 parents who balance work in the retail and food service sector with parenting young children 0 to 9 years of age. Our results demonstrate that unstable and unpredictable work schedules have consequences for children's care arrangements. We find that parents' exposure to on-call work and last-minute shift changes are associated with more numerous care arrangements, with a reliance on informal care arrangements, with the use of siblings to provide care, and with young children being left alone without adult supervision. Given the well-established relationship between quality of care in the early years and child development, just-in-time scheduling practices are likely to have consequences for child development and safety and to contribute to the intergenerational transmission of disadvantage.
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