Waldfogel Jane author Columbia University. Social Work McLanahan Sara author Columbia University. Social Work originator text Articles 2011 English This issue of The Future of Children describes the challenges parents face in taking care of family responsibilities while also holding down a job and explores the implications of those challenges for child and family wellbeing. As children grow and develop, parents are the hub in a system of care to meet their needs, a system that includes extended family, preschools, schools, health care providers, community organizations, and others, but in which parents play the lead role. Often these same working parents have additional care responsibilities for other family members—in particular, the elderly—and are, for them too, the hub around which other caregivers, services, and programs revolve. Individual and family studies 21 2 3 14 2011 http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/foc.2011.0011 http://hdl.handle.net/10022/AC:P:14663 NNC NNC 2012-09-11 13:37:30 -0400 2012-09-11 13:40:54 -0400 8689 eng