The outbreak of COVID-19 is affecting the lives of millions of families around the world. The current study was carried out in Israel, following the pandemic’s initial outbreak and during the resulting enforced quarantine, confining parents and children to their...
This paper considers the liberal case for explicitly ‘pronatalist’ policies to increase the birth rate in the UK. Should the UK join 28% of countries that have adopted explicitly pronatalist measures, seeking to avert the costs of potential population decline and...
These unprecedented circumstances have created a strong focus on flexible working and wellbeing in workplaces across the UK and sparked local and national debates on the future of work. But for Working Families’ employer members, flexible working and familyfriendly...
Early child development has been influenced directly and indirectly by the COVID- 19 pandemic, and these effects are exacerbated in contexts of poverty. This study estimates effects of the pandemic and subsequent population lock-downs on mental health, caregiving...
Continuing the expanded credit beyond 2021 would slash child poverty even further, reducing it to about 8.4% from 14.2%, a fall of roughly 40%, according to a recent study by Gregory Acs, vice president for income and benefits policy at the Urban Institute, and Kevin...
Social and emotional competence has a profound impact on healthy child development, and is associated with numerous outcomes that persist across the lifespan. Because children enrolled in Head Start are at an increased risk for deficits in social and emotional skills...