Research Paper on:
Families with Dual Earners and Effects

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rather than the exception. Studies in the mid-1990s revealed that 62 percent of all women with pre-school children were employed outside of he home (Ulione, 1996). Other reports reveal that  almost one-third of all American children attend day care (Williams, 2001). Another 15 percent are in an alternative child-care environment, such as day care in somebodys home and about 25  percent more are being cared for by a relative (Williams, 2001). During the 1970s and 1980s, numerous studies focused on the impact of dual-earner families on the family as  a whole, on each spouse and on the children (Ulione, 1996). Then, there was a dearth of studies that focused on the issue although the popular media continued to  print the negative effects of dual-earner families (Ulione, 1996). In an effort to fill at least a part of the gap in research, Ulione investigated what factors were associated with  positive physical and emotional health in dual-earner family members. Uliones study revealed several factors that were positively correlated with good health, including: social support, which correlated highly  with both physical and emotional health; job flexibility, which was correlated with good emotional health; and satisfactory child care, which showed a positive correlation with good emotional health (Ulione, 1996).  Uliones study was important because it is well known that there is a high level of stress and tension, worry and fatigue, and anxiety in the family as a  result of both persons being employed outside the home. These negative emotional and psychological effects increase when the couple has children. Uliones study demonstrates that there are ways in which  these tensions and negative effects can be ameliorated. The society has changed greatly since the 1950s when the overwhelming majority of mothers stayed home with the children and the