Figure 2 - C Distribution of father - and mother -
child average relationship scores among couple families
Not exact matches
Dr Steele found that
children who as babies did not spend quality time with their fathers — particularly those not regularly bathed by dad, experienced friendship and
relationship difficulties three times above the national
average.
Here, to illustrate the connection between fatherhood and
child well - being, I compare adolescent boys and girls who fall into one of four categories: those living in an intact, married family with a high - quality
relationship with their father (top third), or an
average - quality
relationship with their father (middle third), or a low - quality
relationship with him (bottom third), or living in a single - mother family.
While your presentation suggests that frequent feeding may reduce bilirubin on
average, according to the studies, these statistics do not reflect a guarantee of that
relationship for every mother and
child in real life.
Across 10 different areas of life, adolescents with cerebral palsy only ranked their quality of friend and peer
relationships as on
average lower than adolescents in the general population, challenging the widespread perception that adolescents with disabilities have unhappy, unfulfilled lives», says lead author Allan Colver, Professor of Community
Child Health at Newcastle University in the UK.
Taking into account the
relationship between predicted and actual spending increases, we find that increasing per - pupil spending by 10 percent in all 12 school - age years increases educational attainment by 0.3 years on
average among all
children.
When the achievements of individual
children are reduced to their
relationship to the
average of all
children, important information is lost.
Eight programs, in various settings, successfully implemented a voluntary package of
relationship skills services for low - income married couples with
children, engaging a diverse group of couples who participated for eight months on
average.
• want to protect everything —
children,
relationships, money, time and privacy • tend to be intelligent and educated, and have a higher than
average emotional IQ • want a divorce that is «tailor - made» for their circumstances, not an «off - the - rack,» ill - fitting form used by everyone (and fitting no one very well) • want results more than revenge • want to be participants — not victims — in the dissolution of the marriage • want to assure themselves that nothing happens unless they agree to it • want control over the scheduling of events of divorce • want to retain some dignity through the process of divorce • want to end the
relationship as positively as possible • see the big picture
A covariate was included in the multivariate analyses if theoretical or empirical evidence supported its role as a risk factor for obesity, if it was a significant predictor of obesity in univariate regression models, or if including it in the full multivariate model led to a 5 % or greater change in the OR.48 Model 1 includes maternal IPV exposure, race / ethnicity (black, white, Hispanic, other / unknown),
child sex (male, female), maternal age (20 - 25, 26 - 28, 29 - 33, 34 - 50 years), maternal education (less than high school, high school graduation, beyond high school), maternal nativity (US born, yes or no),
child age in months,
relationship with father (yes or no), maternal smoking during pregnancy (yes or no), maternal depression (as measured by a CIDI - SF cutoff score ≥ 0.5), maternal BMI (normal / underweight, overweight, obese), low birth weight (< 2500 g, ≥ 2500 g), whether the
child takes a bottle to bed at age 3 years (yes or no), and
average hours of
child television viewing per day at age 3 years (< 2 h / d, ≥ 2 h / d).
As noted, single parents, on
average, have fewer resources, are in poorer mental health, and have more problematic
relationships with their partners — any of which might in turn affect the quality of parenting that single mothers provide for their
children.
The
average age of the women was around 37, and to make sure the levels of
relationship commitment were comparable, they were asked about their
relationships with the fathers of their first
children.
So stressful, in fact, that research shows that the
average relationship takes a big dip in
relationship satisfaction from the time the first
child is born until the youngest
child leaves the home.
We found that for women, but not for men, having had a
child in a prior
relationship was associated, on
average, with lower marital quality.
The distribution of
average scores for father -
child relationships was negatively skewed (see Figure 2 - B).
4
Average scores are: father -
child relationships 3.49 (95 % confidence interval 3.46 to 3.51) and mother -
child relationships 3.60 (95 % confidence interval 3.58 to 3.62).
5 For girls,
average scores are: father -
child relationships 3.53 (95 % confidence interval 3.50 - 3.56) and mother -
child relationship 3.66 (95 % confidence interval 3.64 - 3.68).
Children have low pro-social scores and higher than
average scores for emotional symptoms, conduct problems and peer
relationship problems.
Average relationship supportiveness scores are slightly lower for father -
child relationships than for mother -
child relationships [4].
Poor
relationship:
average scores from 1 to less than 3 (i.e. on
average,
children gave one of the two less positive responses to the items, with the father «never» or «sometimes» supportive)
Children have low pro-social scores but fairly
average scores for emotional symptoms, conduct problems, hyperactivity / inattention and peer
relationship problems.
Figure 2 - C shows the distribution of
average scores for the father - and mother -
child relationship on the same graph.
The strong association between the quality of the
child's
relationship with each parent is also illustrated by Figure 3 - C, which plots
average supportiveness in father -
child relationships according to
average supportiveness in mother -
child relationships.
Intact family
children had
averaged higher than divorced family
children on self - concept and father
relationships, and shared custody
children averaged higher the sole custody
children in these areas.
In recent years, the responsible fatherhood field has expanded beyond its roots in employment and parenting services for low - income fathers, recognizing the need to also help fathers enhance their
relationship skills.4 Research indicates that
children raised by both parents in low ‐ conflict homes achieve better scores, on
average, for a host of indicators.5 Non-residential fathers face various communication and
relationship challenges that can affect engagement with their
children and willingness to pay
child support.6 By providing services to help fathers communicate openly in healthy, cooperative parenting
relationships, programs can improve potential outcomes for
children, irrespective of their parents» living arrangements.
Mean score for delinquency as a function of combinations of MAOA uVNTR, 5 - HTTLPR, and BDNF Val66Met variants and poor,
average, and good
child - parent
relationships.
The results of this study were as follows; First, the experimental group showed significantly increased
average scores in the peer
relationships of
children.
Mother —
child relationships as sources of support or stress: A comparison of competent,
average, aggressive, and anxious dyads