title: Issues for working parents.
abstract: Not only are infants of working parents at risk if we do not provide optimal substitute care for them, their parents will suffer as well. The opportunity to strengthen the family, rather than weaken it, can be provided around a new baby if such issues as parental leave, quality infant care, and attention to key emotional factors in the early separation of parents and infant are addressed.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002656:Child Day Care Centers; D002657:Child Development; D003674:Defense Mechanisms; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007224:Infant Care / Q000379:methods*; D008297:Male; D008425:Maternal Behavior; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D009769:Object Attachment; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D012931:Social Environment; D014930:Women / Q000523:psychology; D014931:Women, Working / Q000523:psychology