SATURDAY, JULY 31, 2010
KLMNO by Daniel de Vise A new study finds that babies
raised by working mothers don’t necessarily suffer cognitive set- backs, an encouraging finding that follows a raft of previous re- ports suggesting that women with infants were wiser to stay home. Researchers at Columbia Uni-
versity say they are among the first to measure the full effect of maternal employment on child development — not just the po- tential harm caused by a mother’s
absence from the home, but the prospective benefits that come with her job, including higher family income and better child care. In a 113-page monograph, re- leased this week, the authors con- clude “that the overall effect of 1st-year maternal employment on child development is neutral.” The report is based on data from the most comprehensive child-care study to date, the Na- tional Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care. It followed
more than 1,000 children from 10 geographic areas through first grade, tracking their development and family characteristics. Infants raised by mothers with full-time jobs scored somewhat lower on cognitive tests, deficits that persisted into first grade. But that negative effect was offset by several positives. Working moth- ers had higher income. They were more likely to seek high-quality child care. And they displayed greater “maternal sensitivity,” or responsiveness toward their chil- dren, than stay-at-home mothers.
Those positives canceled out the negatives. The study may bring hope to working mothers, who have la- bored under a collective societal guilt since the 2002 publication of landmark research showing that early maternal employment ham- pered child development. The same research team behind that report produced this one. “We can say now, from this
study, what we couldn’t say be- fore: There’s a slight risk, and here’s the three things that you, Mom, can do to make a differ-
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Science & Health Study: Working mothers not necessarily harmful to children’s development
ence,” said Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, the lead author. “This particular research has a positive message for mothers that the earlier re- search didn’t.” The study, “First-Year Maternal Employment and Child Develop- ment in the First 7 Years,” reaf- firms the now-established point that women who work full time in the first year of motherhood risk mild developmental harm to their children. Part-time employment has no negative effect, nor does it matter whether a mother works full time after the first year.
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The reason may be that a moth- er with a full-time job cannot pro- vide an infant “the kinds of in- tensive interaction that babies re- quire,” needs that diminish in the toddler years, Brooks-Gunn said. High-quality child care, too, is hard to find for an infant. The new study is “every bit as
important as you might think,” because it suggests mothers can decide, without guilt, “whether they want to stay home with their children,” said Greg Duncan, a scholar at the University of Cali- fornia at Irvine, who is president of the Society for Research in Child Development.
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