Problems of Working Parents

This leaves the child with a fluctuation in parents, and it leaves the parents with the problem of deciding who will care for the child. In the first two years of the child's life this is an especially crucial decision. During this time the foundation for the child's future relationships will be laid. How the child will relate to the parents, and by extension to other adults, is perhaps the most important factor in a child's upbringing. If this process is formed by peers alone, the child will in fact not learn how to relate to adults, but only to his or her peers. The child will not learn the value of other ages, both to his or her self and to society as a whole.

If the parent is to be absent during this time because of work constraints, then the parent will need to have some means to assist in raising the child that he or she has decided to have.

Since the federal government has stipulated regulations on day care, from the quality of the environment to the quality of the food to be served, it seems logical that the government pro

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bout their future baby as a person and about their future role as parents. Instead, their concerns are expressed in terms of the instrumental work of adjusting to time demands, to schedules, to lining up the necessary substitute care. Very little can be elicited from them about their dreams of the baby or their vision of themselves as new parents." One can see from this trend, or syndrome, that the parents welcome a new child but are faced with the dilemma of caring for him or her, or "it" in their pained language. Successful parenting involves a goal: "Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it." If the parents are unable to conceive of goals for their child, so concerned will they be with how they will provide for him or her, then they will be unable to effectively raise or train the child in the right way. Another point in favor of a leave of absence for the parents is the data on "Early Work groups" of children whose parents go back to work early (and hence who themselves are placed in day care as infants). Gamble and Zigler note that the studies show from the overall results only minimal effects on parent-infant attachments from the day care experience. However, boys in this Ea
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