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A 7 page paper providing a literature review and methods section of a study seeking to gain both parents’ and children’s perspectives on the effects of parents’ work. The design of this study is intended to be relevant, reliable and valid, free of both researcher and respondent bias. The purpose is to discover the effects that parents’ work has on the entire family, which of course includes both parents and children. It is anticipated that results will show that some parents still feel guilty over leaving their children unattended for extended periods of time but that those children old enough not to be fearful of the time alone bear no ill effects. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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7 pages (~225 words per page)
File: CC6_KSpsycResLatch.rtf
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Much has been written, speculated and researched over the years regarding the effects that latchkey status can have on children. Early research indicated that unsupervised afternoon time
was detrimental to children, but later research almost always is consistent in its findings that latchkey status is not generally harmful to children.
One characteristic of working families that latchkey research generally has not addressed is that of parental attitudes and perceptions about their children being home unattended for several hours each day.
The purpose of this current research is to correlate childrens and parents attitudes toward latchkey status to discover any mutual effects that the arrangement carries for both parents and
children. Literature Review Waldfogel, Han and Brooks-Gunn (2002) investigated the issue of latchkey children again, many years after the issue first became a
topic of concern among parents, educators and others interested in childrens welfare. These researchers used data from "the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth on 1,872 children who can be
followed from birth to age 7 or 8" (Waldfogel, Han and Brooks-Gunn, 2002; p. 369) to find support for both sides of issues surrounding debate concerning effects of non-parental day
care. Waldfogel, Han and Brooks-Gunn (2002) "found some persistent adverse effects of first-year maternal employment and some positive effects of second- and third-year maternal employment on cognitive outcomes for
non-Hispanic white children, but not for African American or Hispanic children" (p. 369), easing the fears of parents of non-Hispanic white children but perhaps increasing them among African-American and Hispanic
groups. The effects that Waldfogel, Han and Brooks-Gunn (2002) found to be present persisted even after the researchers "controlled for a range of
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