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Maternal Employment: Does it Affect the Children When They Grow Up?
Author(s) -
Khoo S. E.,
Krishnamoorthy S.,
Trlin A. D.
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
australian journal of social issues
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.417
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1839-4655
pISSN - 0157-6321
DOI - 10.1002/j.1839-4655.1984.tb00774.x
Subject(s) - affect (linguistics) , psychology , educational attainment , project commissioning , developmental psychology , premarital sex , work (physics) , publishing , sample (material) , sexual behavior , economics , political science , economic growth , communication , mechanical engineering , chemistry , engineering , chromatography , law
Using data on a random sample of young adults in Melbourne, this paper examines the effects of maternal employment during their childhood and adolescence on their educational attainment, relationship with their parents, premarital sexual behaviour, and attitude towards working mothers. Maternal employment has little effect on the characteristics of the son, although men whose mothers work during their adolescence were more likely to have had premarital sex than those whose mothers did not work. Maternal employment has more effect on daughters but the effects were mainly positive rather than negative.