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Council on Contemporary Families Releases New Research on Moms' Depression.
Study Includes a Win-Win Finding for Working Moms AND Stay-at-Home Moms
But Findings Pose a Challenge to Employers and Politicians
CONTACT: Virginia Rutter Framingham State University Sociology
vrutter@gmail.com; 508-626-4863
Chicago, IL, May 6, 2011--New mothers are besieged by conflicting advice about whether or not to work. Some experts warn that staying home leads to social isolation, increasing the risk of a mother's depression. Others counter that working moms are more vulnerable to depression because of losing time with children. Since maternal depression can be bad for children as well as for women's own well-being, it's important to know who is right.
Neither side is right, according to a new briefing paper prepared for the Council on Contemporary Families. The impact of working for pay or staying home on a woman's risk of depression depends on her preferences and on the quality of her job, the researchers find.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE -- September 1, 2008
CONTACT: Janet Gornick; jgornick@gc.cuny.edu; 212.817.1872
When it comes to giving fathers and mothers equal access to time off from work to care for new babies, the United States gets a "gentleman's C," ranking in the middle of 21 wealthy countries, according to a Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) report presented to the Council on Contemporary Families in time for Labor Day. But when it comes to the amount of time parents are entitled to take and the provision of subsidies that make it affordable for workers to take the time to which they are entitled, the United States lags far behind most countries with comparable levels of income. In "Parental Leave Policies in 21 Countries: Assessing Generosity and Gender Equality," the CEPR researchers found that the U.S. and Australia were the only high-income countries to offer no paid parental leave.
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