Connecting Caregiver Wages and Distress: Felt Precarity, Parenting, and Child Behavior

In contemporary socioeconomic contexts, employed mothers may experience felt precarity, an emotional reaction to structurally generated vulnerability. This study links wages, a potential source of precarity, to well-being using a family stress model of economic hardship. Findings were generally consistent with those of previous family stress models but with several differences supporting the concept of felt precarity. Mothers’ wages—independent...