Building on long-term benefits of early intervention (Paper 2 of this Series) and increasing
commitment to early childhood development (Paper 1 of this Series), scaled up support for …

Summary Mental health problems affect 10–20% of children and adolescents worldwide.
Despite their relevance as a leading cause of health-related disability in this age group and …

Americans now face a caring deficit: there are simply too many demands on people's time
for us to care adequately for our children, elderly people, and ourselves. At the same time …

Previous research has shown that women are disproportionately negatively affected by a
variety of socio-economic hardships, many of which COVID-19 is making worse. In …

This book explores men's ambiguous relationship with intimate caring work within a context
where carefree and nurturing expectations for men are competing for influence. For men, to …

The phrase slow death refers to the physical wearing out of a population and the
deterioration of people in that population that is very nearly a defining condition of their …

The World Economic Forum released its annual Global Gender Gap Report in October 2010.
The United States rose 12 places to enter the top 20 for the first time. American women have …

This article reviews the emerging literature on transnational parenthood, concentrating on
six themes: gender, care arrangements, legislation, class, communication and moralities …

First Published in 2007. Lee, McCann and Messenger trace the theoretical background of
the concept of working time before examining recent trends in working time laws in …

Families provide most of the care to the tens of millions of HIV-infected and-affected in Africa.
Little research exists on how care-givers balance the demands of holding a job with …