Custodial grandchildren are at - risk for psychological difficulties due to neglect and
abuse by birth parents, challenges to parenting faced by custodial grandparents, and limited access to services.
Not exact matches
Some of the many benefits a Postpartum Doula provides for you and your baby include: Better infant care skills Positive newborn characteristics Breastfeeding skills improve A healthy set of coping skills and strategies Relief from postpartum depression More restful sleep duration and quality Education and support services for a smooth transition home A more content baby Improved infant growth translates into increased confidence A content baby with an easier temperament Education for you to gain greater self - confidence Referrals to competent, appropriate professionals and support groups when necessary The benefits of skin to skin contact Breastfeeding success Lessen the severity and duration of postpartum depression Improved
birth outcomes Decrease risk of
abuse Families with disabilities can also benefit greatly
by learning special skills specific to their situation Families experiencing loss often find relief through our Doula services Improved bonding between
parent and child.
Indeed, Jay Belsky incorporated all of these risk factors into his process model of
parenting, 11 and data from multiple studies support links to child well - being.12 In an experiment on the effectiveness of a program for low -
birth - weight infants, Lawrence Berger and Jeanne Brooks - Gunn examined the relative effect of both socioeconomic status and
parenting on child
abuse and neglect (as measured
by ratings of health providers who saw children in the treatment and control groups six times over the first three years of life, not
by review of administrative data) and found that both factors contributed significantly and uniquely to the likelihood that a family was perceived to engage in some form of child maltreatment.13 The link between
parenting behaviors and child maltreatment suggests that interventions that promote positive
parenting behaviors would also contribute to lower rates of child maltreatment among families served.
More often than not, the children that enter the system were either surrendered
by their
birth parents, were orphaned, or were victims of neglect or
abuse, thereby terminating their
parents» rights over them.