Child-Rearing and Children's Empathy

Child-rearing and children's empathy

Child Support Enforcement and Childrens Consumption

This paper examines the consequences of child support enforcement on children’s consumption. I model the interaction in separated couples as a repeated game between the noncustodial father and the custodial mother who exclusively controls the child’s consumption. The father can only in‡uence the child’s consumption through transfers to the mother. Initially, parents agree on transfer payments a...

Parental empathy and child maltreatment

Parenting and its impact on children’s well-being has been subject to scrutiny by researchers for many years. It has long been recognised that parent’s (or primary carer’s) emotional availability is as important as their physical presence and their provision of the child’s basic physical needs. A lack of emotional availability or empathy on the part of the parent can lead to detrimental effects...

Changes in the Child-Rearing Environment and Their Effect on Child-Rearing Anxiety

The child-rearing environment has drastically changed over the past fifty years. Many factors associated with the changes in the environment have resulted in heightened child-rearing anxiety among mothers. For example, advancement of industries, urbanization, and expansion of the information society have led to a change in family structure. Nuclear families that consist of only a few members ha...

Funding child rearing: child allowance and parental leave.

This article proposes two financing plans to address what the author identifies as the two primary concerns in the child care field: (1) a child allowance for poor and near-poor households to address the child care problems of low-income families, and (2) a program of voluntary parental leave, available to all parents at child birth or adoption, to ensure the adequacy of infant care. The child ...