Parent’s employment can have a significant impact on the stability of children’s lives by affecting the level and stability of the family’s income, parent’s routines and schedules, and whether parents have access to employment-related benefits such as health insurance and paid leave. Below are selected materials that explore parental employment in the context of children and instability.

• Nonstandard Work Schedules and the Well-being of Low-Income Families
• Public Supports When Parents Lose Work
• Dropping Out, Clocking In, and Falling Behind: What Happens to Youth Who Work and Drop Out?
• What Happens to Families' Income and Poverty after Unemployment?
• Unemployment from a Child's Perspective
• How Does Unemployment Affect Family Arrangements for Children?
• Who Minds the Kids When Mom Works a Nonstandard Schedule?
• Family Security: Supporting Parents' Employment and Children's Development
• Coming of Age: Employment Outcomes for Youth Who Age Out of Foster Care Through Their Middle Twenties
• Why parents’ nonstandard work schedules matter for children: Is it the hours or the instability? (Urban Wire Post)
• A life out of balance: when parents’ work affects children’s well-being (Urban Wire Post)
• Lose your job, lose your family: How unemployment affects family stability (Urban Wire Post)