. Transport was required by most parents while others preferred to commute with the children to their place of work. The purpose … factors were availability of children under seven years in the location and its catchments area, the role distance played in … environment people wanted, the services the people want for their children, What is considered affordable school fees? Transport …

to be unrelated to its effect on family income, parent–child interaction, and children's school experience. Together …Using a unique longitudinal data of British youths we estimate how adolescents' overall happiness is related to parents … positive influence on children's overall happiness. However, this positive association became either strongly negative or …

Using cleft lip and palate as an exemplar, this article examines parents’ decision-making for children in the context … purposive and theoretical sampling, 35 parents with children from infancy to young adulthood were recruited through a specialist … revealed a core category, ‘doing the “right” thing’, that encapsulated parents’ main concern in relation to their children …

the obesity epidemic. Parents (and children) negotiate complex and often contradictory messages in constructing a set of … and one child in Victoria and South Australia, we explored how parents and children conceptualise and discuss issues of …. Three thematic clusters emerged from the analysis. First, both parents and children perceived that weight was the primary …

analysis of child growth data for approximately 99,000 children in 19 countries with some of the highest burdens of …

This paper provides new empirical evidence on the impact of parental health shocks on investments in children …, more precise, health indicators. Results show that co-living children of ill mothers, but not of ill fathers, are … shocks are likely to raise the employment probability of children due to the need to cover higher health expenditures. …

Parents may have important effects on their children, but little work in economics explores whether children …'s schooling opportunities crowd out or encourage parents' investment in children. We analyze data from the Head Start Impact Study … substantial increase in parents' involvement with their children—such as time spent reading to children, math activities, or days …

This paper discusses the various kinds of pressure placed on children to consume and how their parents view and deal … issues are the range of constraints placed upon children's consumption as they desire to seek independence from their parents … opportunities presented to children to construct a particular image of themselves through their choice of attire. Related to these …