In recent years since the development of new interest in the young child, much has been written advising parents about their techniques with their children. However, rela[...]

It seems that nursery schools are becoming more family centered. Before a child enters nursery school, the family has been the center of his world. It is through this wor[...]

Research has consistently demonstrated a link between AD/HD and substance use, abuse, and dependence, although why this increased risk occurs remains unclear. The purpose[...]

Research Findings: This study used a within-group research design and person-centered analytic methods to identify multidimensional profiles of parenting styles, parentin[...]

The article presents a study that assessed the relations between adolescent adjustment in stepfamilies, and both family context and process variables. The process variabl[...]

Affect representations during infancy have been associated with internalizing behaviors among children. However, few studies have examined the role of parenting practices[...]

Objective . The authors examined mothers' beliefs about their children's negative emotions and their emotion socialization practices. Design . A total of 65 African Ameri[...]

Families with children, the fastest growing homeless subgroup in the U.S., have recently expanded in size by 35% in North Carolina and 24 other states. Sheltering facilit[...]

This study investigates the cross-cultural validity of a 10-item parental autonomy granting measure with samples of adolescents from the United States, China, Mexico, and[...]

The purpose of this study was to assess the construct validity of adolescent-report parenting behavior measures (primarily derived from the Parental Behavior Measure) in [...]

Although considerable research has investigated parenting stress and children's externalizing behavior problems, comparatively less has considered parenting stress in rel[...]

The current study investigated the potential benefits of relationships between parents whose children were friends (closure relationships) within a sample of 404 mothers.[...]

This study examined within-society variability in attitudes and practices in handling authority issues among a sample of 694 adolescents and their parents residing in sou[...]

Autonomy-relevant parenting practices have been associated with anxiety symptoms later in life, although this finding has most commonly been studied in adolescent populat[...]

One in five children living in the United States is an immigrant or a child of an immigrant, and 62% of these children are Latino. Through qualitative methods, this study[...]

Although considerable research has examined the relations between parental behavior and a range of child developmental outcomes, much of this work has been conducted at a[...]

Black Teenage Mothers: Pregnancy and Child Rearing from Their Perspective. Constance Willard Williams. Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1991. 208 pp. $24.95. This book des[...]

Studies have shown that distal family risk factors like poverty and maternal education are strongly related to children's early language development. Yet, few studies hav[...]

Previous research suggests that raising children is costly to well-being, particularly for women. However, this work is limited by the examination of almost entirely West[...]

Gratitude, referring to a dispositional trait to appropriately show gratefulness to a benefactor for a gift or help received (Tudge, Freitas, andO'Brien, 2015), has been [...]

Trajectories of change in maternal depressive symptoms were examined in a sample of 98 mothers across the transition to parenthood. Latent class growth modeling revealed [...]

This study relates three types of cognitions--ambiguity of the stepfather role, an optimistic perspective on stepfamilies, and myths about stepfamilies--to two areas of s[...]

PROBLEM: What is the comparative impact of a second pregnancy prevention program for teen mothers on those who graduate from the program compared with a sample of young m[...]

The contexts of family and peer group play critical roles in shaping children's lives over their development. Biological theory suggests that these two contexts are inter[...]

Trajectories of children's temperamental reactivity (negative affectivity and surgency) were examined in a community sample of 370 children across the ages of 4 to 7 usin[...]