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Despite various limitations with the way GUS collects income information, this longitudinal measure of poverty can be used to compare GUS children with different durations of living in low - income households.

This suggests that because the GUS children are still young, the effect of persistent poverty may not have manifested itself yet.

So, although we do not observe a direct impact of persistent poverty now, it may be that we will do in a few years time, when the GUS children are slightly older.

The majority of GUS children were born into couple families where the parents 6 remained together throughout the five - year period.

In contradiction to the finding for lone parents, the likelihood of job loss for couple families was actually lower for families with other children older than the GUS child.

The multivariate analysis shows that after controlling for other factors, the background characteristics that remained significantly associated with a higher likelihood of parental separation were the parents» relationship status at the birth of the GUS child, whether the birth was planned and income at the time of the first interview (see Table C. 1 in the technical appendix for full results).

Not exact matches

Growing Up in Scotland's (GUS) longitudinal study, which recently looked at 2,593 families with a child aged 10 years old, found that father - child relationships were equally important to the wellbeing of children as mother - child relationships.

GUS is an important data source in studying this area because it collects information on the same children over time.

We make good use of the longitudinal element of GUS, using data from all five years (2005/06 to 2009/10) to identify an event that children have experienced during the first years of childhood (research question 1).

This report uses data from the Growing Up in Scotland study (GUS) to present a detailed exploration of children's social, emotional and behavioural development during the early years of their lives up to their entry to primary school.

Albeit based on older children than in GUS, children aged 13 to 14 years who live in families with five or more problems (such as neither parent in work, poor housing conditions, parents with mental health problems) are 36 times more likely to be excluded from school than children in families with no problems and six times more likely to have been in care or to have contact with the police (HM Treasury and DFES, 2007).

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GUS mothers were also asked about other areas of their child's development, learning or behaviour.

Matt Barnes, Jenny Chanfreau and Wojtek Tomaszewski, National Centre for Social Research Prepared for the Scottish Government: Children, Young People and Social Care Directorate by the Scottish Centre for Social Research ISBN 978 0 7559 8311 7 (Web only publication) This document is also available in pdf format (688k) This report is one of four report & accompanied with research findings 1/2010, (GUS) Health inequalities in the early years, research findings, 2/2010, (GUS) Maternal mental health & its impact on child behaviour & development, research findings 3/2010, (GUS) children's social, emotional & behavioural charactoristics at entry to primary school, research findingsChildren, Young People and Social Care Directorate by the Scottish Centre for Social Research ISBN 978 0 7559 8311 7 (Web only publication) This document is also available in pdf format (688k) This report is one of four report & accompanied with research findings 1/2010, (GUS) Health inequalities in the early years, research findings, 2/2010, (GUS) Maternal mental health & its impact on child behaviour & development, research findings 3/2010, (GUS) children's social, emotional & behavioural charactoristics at entry to primary school, research findingschildren's social, emotional & behavioural charactoristics at entry to primary school, research findings 4/2010.

Our apparently contradictory GUS finding may reflect measurement of events over a longer time period, and their impact on children's feelings, rather than on parenting behaviour - especially as our measures of parent - child relationships (unlike those in the UK Millennium Cohort Study) are child - reported, and involve older children.

To date, GUS has collected information about three «cohorts» of children: a child cohort and two birth cohorts - altogether, information has been collected on about 14,000 children.

Previous analysis of GUS data found that lower levels of household income and greater area deprivation were both associated with a lower activity score for children who were almost 3 years old, although this score included time spent watching television and playing on computers in the activity measure, along with various active behaviours such as running, jumping and ball play (Marryat et al. 2009).

Secondly, GUS data is obtained from the child's main carer, usually the child's natural mother.

GUS contains information on a range of factors that other research has identified as drivers of child outcomes (Barnes et al., 2010; Barnes et al., 2008; Marryat and Martin, 2010; Jones, 2010).

The MCS study included mother - reported Pianta measures of warmth and conflict (similar to GUS), interviewers» observations of positive and negative parenting, mother reports of reading with the child, disciplinary practices (frequency of smacking and shouting) and family organisation (regular bedtimes and mealtimes).

(Note that although having parents who are unmarried is a «current» predictor of a poor father - child relationship, there is no information collected at the GUS age 10 interview on the current quality of the partner relationship.

This study uses data from the first GUS birth cohort, a nationally representative sample of families with children born between June 2004 and May 2005.

Previous analysis of GUS identified maternal health problems as a significant factor associated with child outcomes (Barnes et al., 2010).

Future work will seek to strengthen this finding using teacher - reported measures of child wellbeing collected at age 10 (but not available for this study), and by examining father - child relationships at age 10 in relation to children's wellbeing measured in future sweeps of GUS.

The lower figure in the GUS data therefore suggests that a reasonable proportion of mothers are not aware of tooth decay in their children.

GUS is an important longitudinal research project aimed at tracking the lives of two cohorts of Scottish children from the early years, through childhood and beyond.

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Mothers of the first birth cohort of GUS were surveyed every year from 2005/06, when their children were aged around 10 months old.

For example, recent research of Growing Up in Scotland (GUS), the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) and other sources has shown that changes to parental relationships can impact on child behaviour (Bradshaw and Tipping, 2010; Keirnan and Mensah, 2010) and that parents» transitions into and out of employment can impact on both family income and parent - child interaction (Millar and Ridge, 2008; McQuaid et al., 2010).

We looked at five indicators of child disadvantage, measured at sweep 4 of GUS, including being overweight, concerns over language development, and social, emotional and behavioural problems - and explored whether persistently poor children were at greater risk of these.

This paper describes an analysis of the Growing Up in Scotland (GUS) longitudinal data - set over four sweeps, to explore the impacts of maternal mental health 1 on their children at ages 3 - 4.

Also the nature of the GUS disadvantage measures means that we may not necessarily expect to see large differences between children at this young age, either because variations in children are not large or the measures are not detailed enough to pick up smaller differences which may be occurring in relation to poverty impact.

The longitudinal Growing Up in Scotland (GUS) study provides an opportunity to explore links over time, based on measures obtained at discrete points in a child's life.

The research will look at the association between these significant events and factors which other research, including GUS, has shown to be related to child outcomes.

Previous analysis of GUS has shown that children who had more prolonged exposure to a mother with mental health problems were more likely to have adverse developmental outcomes (Marryat and Martin, 2010).

Our GUS finding for family socio - economic disadvantage (as indicated here by lower parental education) ties in with the negative effect of low family socio - economic status on the quality of both mothers» and fathers» relations with three year - old children in another large birth cohort, the UK Millennium Cohort Study (Malmberg & Flouri, 2011).

The percentage with moderate or severe difficulties is comparable to that found in earlier analysis of data from the slightly older child cohort in GUS (Bradshaw, 2010).

The Growing Up in Scotland (GUS) study provides a unique opportunity to present a detailed exploration of children's social, emotional and behavioural development during the early years of their lives up to their entry to primary school.

This document is also available in pdf format (2Mb) This report is one of four reports & accompanied with research findings, 3/2010 (GUS) The circumstances of persistently poor children, research findings 1/2010, (GUS) Health inequalities in the early years, research findings 2/2010,, (GUS) children's social, emotional & behavioural charactoristics at entry to primary school, research findings 4/2010.

GUS plans to collect further information on parent - child relationships and socio - emotional wellbeing when children are in their first year at secondary school (sweep 9).

1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Child poverty targets and persistent poverty 1.2 Aims of this report 1.3 The Growing Up in Scotland (GUS) survey

The longitudinal Growing Up in Scotland (GUS) survey was used to explore whether being exposed to a mother with poor mental health affected children's development at age four.

As the discussion above notes, recognition of the importance of early childhood experiences has gained prominence in recent years and consequently there is increasing interest in the potential for screening children at an early age for factors such as their meeting of developmental milestones, readiness to learn, or for emotional, social or conduct disorders, all of which GUS routinely includes.

The GUS parent - child relationship measure is effectively a measure of the mother - child relationship.

GUS has included the SDQ annually in the child cohort questionnaire since sweep 2 (age 3), at which point 99 % of children in the cohort were attending some form of pre-school or nursery provision.

GUS research findings to date have accumulated evidence of socio - economic inequalities in child health and health behaviours, together with some evidence that parenting varies by socio - economic status, for example in relation to diet and exercise at sweep 3 (Marryat et al. 2009).

We did not find that GUS fathers» work - life balance when children were very young helped to predict their relationship with the ten year - old child.

This paper is based on data from natural mothers interviewed at the time of the first sweep of GUS undertaken in 2005/2006 when their baby was aged 10 months old and subsequently re-interviewed annually on three further occasions, until their children were almost four years old.

As outlined in the previous section, a substantial minority (16 %) of ten year - old children in GUS couple families perceive low levels of supportiveness from fathers, and are categorised as having a «poor» father - child relationship.

Unfortunately, GUS has not collected information on children's relationships with non-resident fathers at the age 10 interview, although this is planned for the next round of data collection when children are in their first year of secondary school.