Children With Special Health Care Needs and Forgone Family Employment

BACKGROUND Family income is known to affect child health, but this relationship can be bidirectional. We sought to characterize this relationship by quantifying forgone family employment (FFE) due to a child’s health condition in families of children with special health care needs (CSHCN) with updated figures. METHODS We conducted a secondary data analysis from the 2016–2017 National Survey of Children’s Health. CSHCN with previously employed...