Foreword : balancing work and family life : why should it be so hard? / Sandra Scarr
Employed mothers and their children : a view of the issues / Jacqueline V. Lerner and Nancy L. Galambos
Infant day care : concerns, controversies, choices / Ross A. Thompson
Maternal employment during infancy : an analysis of "children of the national longitudinal survey of youth (NLSY)" / P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale, Robert T. Michael, and Sonalde Desai
Maternal employment in the family setting : developmental and environmental issues / Adele Eskeles Gottfried
Maternal employment and adolescents / Maryse H. Richards and Elena Duckett
Children in self-care : figures, facts, and fiction / Nancy L. Galambos and Jennifer L. Maggs.
The household labor of children from dual- versus single-earner families / W. Todd Bartko and Susan M. McHale
Fathers' employment : a neglected influence on children / Julian Barling
Without map or compass : finding the way in contemporary dual-earner marriages / Alan J. Hawkins and Ann C. Crouter
From maternal employment to child outcomes : preexisting group differences and moderating variables / Martha J. Zaslow, Beth A. Rabinovich, and Joan T.D. Suwalsky
Afterword / Lois Wladis Hoffman.
