Jessica F. Lamontagne|Patrice L. Engle|Marian F. Zeitlin
Maternal employment, child care, and nutritional status of 12–18-month-old children in Managua, Nicaragua
University of California, Davis|California Polytechnic State University|Tufts University
relationships among womens employment child care strategies nutritional status children 1218 months age examined 80 nicaraguan households sampled randomized block design 10 low income urban communities multiple regression analyses showed children employed mothers 56 fared better weightheight whose mothers employed without controlling socioeconomic status maternal education paternal financial support child care adequacy sex age child children inadequate alternate child care care preteen care work place lower height age even controlling variables maternal employment differences 10 caregiving behaviors families function work status mother adequacy child care examined families working mothers caregivers less likely observed washing hands suggesting positive associations work earnings might due income rather improved care inadequate care associated less food variety less use health care marginally less handwashing inadequate child care tends associated informal work nuclear families poverty concern child welfare