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MDRC, 2013
Policymakers need to decide how to invest in strengthening the most basic foundation for early childhood development: family relationships. The challenges: (1) help parents provide the responsive and stimulating environments that will prepare young children for school; and (2) support fathers' engagement with their children regardless of whether…
Descriptors: Low Income Groups, Fathers, Parent Education, Family Relationship
Dunst, Carl J.; Trivette, Carol M.; Hamby, Deborah W. – Winterberry Press, 2006
The belief that adoption of, adherence to, and use of family support principles is associated with better parent, family, and child outcomes has for the most part gone untested but not unchallenged. This monograph investigates the relationship between practitioner adherence to family support principles and parent, family, and child behavior and…
Descriptors: Family Programs, Program Effectiveness, Methods, Parents
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families. – 1985
This document contains transcripts of testimony and prepared statements from the Congressional hearing called to examine the effects of alcoholism on children and families. Testimonies are presented from the director of the Alcoholism Control Administration, Department of Health and Mental Hygiene; the medical director of the Alcoholism and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Alcoholism, Drug Abuse, Educational Needs
Knitzer, Jane; Lefkowitz, Jill – National Center for Children in Poverty, 2006
Compelling evidence from neuroscience about how early relationships and experience influence the architecture of the brain, and in turn early school success, has led to increasing policy and practice attention to implementing child development and family support programs like Early Head Start for infants and toddlers. But, there is also a group of…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Family Programs, Toddlers, Infants
Saraswathi, T. S., Ed. – 2003
This book is based on lectures delivered by 12 cross-cultural social science scholars drawn from 7 countries to address critical issues related to knowledge construction in human development and allied disciplines. The book is organized into two major sections. Section 1 focuses on theoretical perspectives and Section 2 highlights ongoing research…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Rearing, Children, Cross Cultural Studies
Torres, Angelina Moreno – 1983
The 26 papers focus on child abuse issues affecting the Mexican American family. The keynote address notes various issues in child abuse and neglect among Mexican Americans. Three papers discuss Mexican American families in transition, adjustment of the family into the Mexican American barrio and vice versa, and the effects of sexual assault on…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), American Indians, Child Abuse, Child Advocacy