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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"child wellbeing"”.
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Three-Generation Family Households and Child Wellbeing
… few years of life are critical in preparing children for school and for long term development. Families play a primary role in the development of cognitive and social skills as well as physical health. Changes in family structure that have occurred over the last several decades have resulted …
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Child wellbeing and economic development: evidence from Indonesia
Ensuring a high quality of life for all children is essential for the future human and social capital as well as for sustainable economic growth and development. Hence, child wellbeing has gained much attention in recent years and has also been the ultimate focus of the Sustainable Development …
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Parent and Child Wellbeing in a Humanitarian Context By Flora Cohen,
There are increasingly more children and families affected by conflict and displacement. Conflict and displacement can cause severe mental health challenges and social fragmentation. Programs that support the mental health and wellbeing of communities and families living in humanitarian contexts …
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Open adoption in Victoria, Australia: adoptive parents' reports of children's experience of birth family contact in relation to child wellbeing
Open adoption, in which adopted children may have contact with their birth family, is a relatively new phenomenon in the adoption field. It was introduced in Victoria, Australia, in 1984, and no Australian research as to its nature and effectiveness has been published to date. The experience of 60 …
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Infant wellbeing and monitoring: An observation of the Road to Health Booklet in Masiphumelele
… tracks the health of newborns and the growth of children. The Department of Health (DoH) does this monitoring using the Road to Health Booklet (RtHB). In this dissertation I analyse the use of the booklet in the township of Masiphumelele in Cape Town. The state produced booklet is intended for …
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‘Where there is a caring teacher, there is a compassionate school’: poor children's experiences of wellbeing and teacher-child relationships in Mumbai, India
… explores socio-economically disadvantaged children's lived experiences of ‘wellbeing’ and 'care' in an Indian school, in order to offer fresh perspectives on child wellbeing in resource-constrained settings and children's own views on teacher support for vulnerable learners. On a small …
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Time for change: a study of enrolment decision dynamics for admission into English secondary education
… of mental health problems from the age that children change to English secondary schools but there are few longitudinal appraisals of these issues and how enrolment policies influence psychological wellbeing. This research focuses on key factors linking competition for secondary schools and …
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Addressing child poverty: Is Ugandan law and policy fit for purpose?
… the normative framework for protection of the child from poverty as set by international and regional human and child rights instruments and accordingly, evaluate the scope and ability of Ugandan law and policy to protect the child from poverty. Secondly, to primarily analyse whether Ugandan …
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Economic Disadvantage, Nativity, and Academic Performance and School Punishment Among Latino/a Children
… impacts the academic well-being of a Latino/a child saturate the literature. This study examines the relationship between economic disadvantage and academic performance and school punishment through Family Stress Process Theory, providing a contextual analysis of resource instability. The …
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Not Quite Out on the Streets: Examining Protective and Risk Factors for Housing Insecurity among Low-Income Urban Fathers
… available waves of the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing (n = 4378) dataset to examine the relationship between protective and risk factors and housing insecurity. As access to protective factors increases, fathers’ risk of housing semi-insecurity and insecurity decreases, and as fathers …
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An Examination of Household Chaos and Neighborhood Collective Efficacy on Adolescents’ Legal Cynicism and Delinquency
… research utilizes the Future of Families and Child Wellbeing Study (FFCWS) to conduct a path analysis. The theoretical framework for this project draws from social disorganization theory and ecological systems theory. This study longitudinally explores household chaos and neighborhood …
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Poverty and child well-being in foster care: Exploring family stress and adolescent behavior in Washington State
Poverty defines the lives of most families in the child welfare system. Children are more likely to be removed from poorer families. In the Family Stress Model, economic stress influences child well-being in biological families, and is hypothesized to be associated with foster youth well-being in …
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Low-income non-custodial fathers and child support enforcement: The policy of promoting fathering through financial obligation
… a secondary analysis on The Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study's dataset of non-residential father involvement with their child during their five-year follow-up. Using child support status, reason for nonresidential status, relationship with mother, and income level as independent …
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The Impact of Poverty and Neighborhood Characterstics on the Mental Health and Parent-Child Closeness in the Black Community: The Protective Role of Black Cultural Strengths
… can be detrimental to the mental health wellbeing of Black people. Yet, there is a lack of understanding of how, why, and for whom such factors impact the mental of the Black community. Using a sample of 1654 Black families from the Fragile Family and Child Wellbeing Study I investigated …
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The Impact Of Poverty And Neighborhood Characterstics On The Mental Health And Parent-child Closeness In The Black Community: The Protective Role Of Black Cultural Strengths
… can be detrimental to the mental health wellbeing of Black people. Yet, there is a lack of understanding of how, why, and for whom such factors impact the mental of the Black community. Using a sample of 1654 Black families from the Fragile Family and Child Wellbeing Study I investigated …
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The Role of the Neighborhood Fast Food Environment in Weight Status of Inner-City Children
… epidemic proportions both among adults and among children. Childhood obesity is of significant concern because it is associated with childhood morbidity, adverse social outcomes and may be associated with life-long implications. In recent years, there has been an increased interest in …
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Beyond Biology: Bases For a Child-Centered and Functional Account of Parenthood
… bonds beyond the parent-parent and parent-child relationships. </p><p>Importantly, this theory of gender and human sexuality appears not only to reject voluntary participation in placing children with same-sex partners, but so privileges the biological family that it may undermine Catholic …
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The Role of Context in Work-Family Challenges and the Implications for Children's Development
… work and family is an issue for family and child wellbeing. Work-family conflict may occur when an individual has to perform multiple roles: their role as a paid employee, and their unpaid role as a parent of children. Performing multiple roles can lead to intrapersonal conflict because it …
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The Role of Context in Work-Family Challenges and the Implications for Children's Development
… work and family is an issue for family and child wellbeing. Work-family conflict may occur when an individual has to perform multiple roles: their role as a paid employee, and their unpaid role as a parent of children. Performing multiple roles can lead to intrapersonal conflict because it …
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DEVELOPMENTAL PATHWAYS BETWEEN LOW BIRTH WEIGHT STATUS AND CHILDREN’S ACADEMIC AND SOCIOEMOTIONAL COMPETENCE: THE ROLE OF PARENTING PROCESSES AS A MODERATOR
… low birth weight (MLBW), parenting factors, and children’s developmental outcomes within an at-risk sample (N= 1,809), using secondary data from Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing (FFCW) study. Of particular interest was whether parenting factors moderate the associations between MLBW and …
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