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Need for and Use of Family Leave Among Parents of Children With Special Health Care Needs

May 22, 2007

Website Link  http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/content/abstract/119/5/e1047

This article, The Need for and Use of Family Leave Among Parents of Children With Special Health Care Needs, is in Pediatrics 2007; 119 e1047-e1055 and is written by Paul J. Chung, MD, MS , Craig F. Garfield, MD, MAPP , Marc N. Elliott, PhD Colleen Carey, BA Carl Eriksson, MD, MPH and Mark A. Schuster, MD, PhD.

Parents of children with special health care needs are especially vulnerable to work-family conflicts that family leave benefits might help resolve. The researchers examined leave-taking among full-time-employed parents of children with special health care needs. This article is available here.