Sentences with phrase «children of adolescent mothers»

Conclusions Compared to offspring of adult women, children of adolescent mothers have lower mean scores on cognitive measures, smaller head circumference, and higher BMI.

Background Children of adolescent mothers may suffer because of parenting inadequacies.

Frank Furstenberg and Kathleen Harris, «When and Why Fathers Matter: Impacts of Father Involvement on Children of Adolescent Mothers,» in Young Unwed Fathers: Changing Roles and Emerging Policies, R. Lerman and T. Ooms, eds.

When and why fathers matter: Impacts of father involvement on the children of adolescent mothers.

Not exact matches

(9) Many of the problems of troubled children and adolescents, which bring families to therapy, stem from the unfulfilling, one - down position of their mothers and the emotionally distant, high - pressure life - styles of their success - driven fathers.

A study of the dietary intake of Cypriot children and adolescents aged 6 — 18 years and the association of mother's educational status and children's weight status on adherence to nutritional recommendations

Erkut et al (2005), studying Puerto Rican adolescent fathers, found their involvement influenced by child characteristics, their own perceptions of their fathering competence, social support — and the quality of relationship with their baby's mother

Mothers» perceptions of barriers, parenting alliance, and adolescent fathers» engagement with their children.

Colic, crying, round - the - clock wakings — is it any wonder that parents experience high rates of depression in the first year after the birth of a child?A study of British parents in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine has found that more than one - third of mothers and about one - fifth of fathers seem to have weathered depression sometime between becoming parents and their children's 12th birthday, with the most episodes occurring in the first year after birth.

Parents» marital conflict is expected to influence children's and adolescents» attachment security to the mother by reducing the responsiveness and effectiveness of her parenting (Markiewicz, Doyle, & Brendgen, 2001).

The researchers focused on 687 families comprised of a mother, father and adolescent child.

Milkie, M. A., Nomaguchi, K. M. and Denny, K. E. (2015), Does the Amount of Time Mothers Spend With Children or Adolescents Matter?.

Someone told me ones that for every warm and supporting year of mothering through breastfeeding, that child will have a warm and supporting adolescent year.

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.

The nine national models that met the HHS evidence requirements as of October 2011 include Child FIRST, Early Head Start — Home Visiting (EHS — HV), Early Intervention Program for Adolescent Mothers (EIP), Family Check - Up, Healthy Families America (HFA), Healthy Steps, Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY), Nurse - Family Partnership (NFP), and Parents as Teachers (PAT).

Those models include: Child FIRST, Early Head Start - Home Visiting, Early Intervention Program for Adolescent Mothers (EIP), Early Start (New Zealand), Family Check - Up, Healthy Families America (HFA), Healthy Steps, Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY), Nurse Family Partnership (NFP), Oklahoma's Community - Based Family Resource and Support (CBFRS) Program, Parents as Teachers (PAT), Play and Learning Strategies (PALS) Infant6, and SafeCare Augmented.

Articles by him have been published in The Brown University Child and Adolescent Behavior Letter, Young Children, Contemporary Pediatrics, the Journal of Psychohistory, Mothering Magazine, New Beginnings, Working Mother and other national and foreign publications.

Dr Kaylene Henderson, MBBS FRANZCP Cert C&A Psych Infant, Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist, Author, Registered Parent Educator and Mother of three.

The March 1997 Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine described one young person's horror on learning that «she» had been born a normal male, but that a circumciser had burned his penis off when he was a baby.60 Many other similar cases have been documented.61, 62 Infant circumcision has a reported death rate of one in 500,000.63, 64 · Circumcision harms mothers: Scientific studies have consistently shown that circumcision disrupts a child's behavioral development.

Dr. Sandeep Vohra, Neuropsychiatrist, Addiction Psychiatrist and Adolescent And Child Psychiatrist, Apollo Hospital recommends mothers to have uninterrupted 6 - 8 hours of sleep every day, followed by a healthy lifestyle and regular exercise.

Half of the maternal deaths are because the mothers are just too young, there are adolescents, and they are children with children.

Existing research has often highlighted the adverse effects of air pollutants on lung function in school - age children and adolescents, but the effects of a mother's exposure to pollution on the lung function of her unborn child and shortly after birth are less well known.

It is difficult to determine exactly what proportion of those losses are due to maternal malnutrition, but recent research indicates that 60 percent of deaths of children under age 5 are associated with malnutrition — and children's malnutrition is strongly correlated with mothers» poor nutritional status.17 Problems related to anemia, for example, including cognitive impairment in children and low productivity in adults, cost US$ 5 billion a year in South Asia alone.18 Illness associated with nutrient deficiencies have significantly reduced the productivity of women in less developed countries.19 A recent report from Asia shows that malnutrition reduces human productivity by 10 percent to 15 percent and gross domestic product by 5 percent to 10 percent.20 By improving the nutrition of adolescent girls and women, nations can reduce health care costs, increase intellectual capacity, and improve adult productivity.21

«The feminist critique of objectivity rests heavily on the psychoanalytical perspective of Nancy Chodorow, who has argued that female and male children articulate their adolescent identity through fundamentally divergent responses to the maternal bond: To forge their identity as men, male children must detach themselves from their primary love - object, whereas female children forge their identitites as women in continuing identification with the mothers.......

Parent - child interaction among Latina adolescent mothers: The role of family and social support.

Complications of pregnancy and childbirth are the second leading cause of death among 15 — 19 - year - old women, 1 and babies born to adolescent mothers face greater health risks than those born to older women.2, 3 Moreover, adolescent childbearing is associated with lower educational attainment, and it can perpetuate a cycle of poverty from one generation to the next.4, 5 Thus, helping young women avoid unintended pregnancies can have far - reaching benefits for them, their children and societies as a whole.

Moreover, it might be that specifically after the conclusion of «external control» by the therapists, mothers with an insecure - anxious attachment style13 might fear that the weight - control behaviors threaten their relationship with the child / adolescent.

These findings approximate those of the more recent National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well - Being (NSCAW) that 20 percent of children in an investigation for abuse and neglect had a mother who, by either the child welfare worker's or mother's account, was involved with drugs or alcohol; that figure rises to 42 percent for children who are placed into foster care.7 These studies have clearly established a positive relationship between a caregiver's substance abuse and child maltreatment among children in out - of - home care and among children in the general populaChild and Adolescent Well - Being (NSCAW) that 20 percent of children in an investigation for abuse and neglect had a mother who, by either the child welfare worker's or mother's account, was involved with drugs or alcohol; that figure rises to 42 percent for children who are placed into foster care.7 These studies have clearly established a positive relationship between a caregiver's substance abuse and child maltreatment among children in out - of - home care and among children in the general populachild welfare worker's or mother's account, was involved with drugs or alcohol; that figure rises to 42 percent for children who are placed into foster care.7 These studies have clearly established a positive relationship between a caregiver's substance abuse and child maltreatment among children in out - of - home care and among children in the general populachild maltreatment among children in out - of - home care and among children in the general population.

The program originally developed in Elmira served primarily white, rural adolescent mothers (400 mothers, divided into four different treatment groups) for whom data are available through the child's fifteenth birthday.27 It was replicated in Memphis with an urban sample of 1,139 predominantly African American adolescent mothers and their children who have been followed through age nine28 and in Denver with an ethnically diverse sample of 735 low - income mothers and their children who have been followed through age four.29 Beginning in 1996, NFP programs began expanding to other states using a mix of private, local, and federal funds.

It is significant that home - visiting programs are particularly effective in preventing child abuse and neglect among first - time adolescent mothers, because these women provide the truest test of a primary prevention program.

Christine Buchanan, Eleanor Maccoby, and Sanford Dornbusch found that adolescents had fewer emotional and behavior problems following divorce if their mothers remarried than if they cohabited with a partner.31 Similarly, two studies of African American families found that children were better off in certain respects if they lived with stepfathers than with their mother's cohabiting partners.32 In contrast, Susan Brown found no significant differences between children in married and cohabiting stepfamilies.33 Although these data suggest that children may be better off if single mothers marry their partners rather than cohabit, the small number of studies on this topic makes it difficult to draw firm conclusions.

The Effects of Divorced Mothers» Dating Behaviors and Sexual Attitudes on the Sexual Attitudes and Behaviors of Their Adolescent Children

Some studies, such as those testing the efficacy of the Nurse - Family Partnership program across several sites, have shown positive outcomes in multiple domains for both mothers and children, with some of these effects continuing into the adolescent years.

Coffman et al. found that for adolescent children (15 - 16), the PCRI was valid for assessing concurrent and predictive features of mother - child relationships, but it was not valid for assessing characteristics of father - child relationships.

Indicators of parent - child relationships from the perspective of adolescents studied by «Reflected parental attitude questionnaire» (A.Y. Varga, V.V. Stolin, modification by E.V. Romanova, M.V. Galimzyanova); «Features of parental attitude inventory» (E.V. Romanova, A.N. Sleptsova); «Kinetic family drawing» (R. Burns, S. Kaufman); drawings «My world», «Mother's world», «Father's world» (E.V. Romanova).

A review of participation in PA for children and adolescents reported that mothers» education level was a factor affecting participation for their children, as was family income [68].

While psychological problems in the family are significantly related to child psychopathology in refugee children and adolescents, the role of mothers appears to be particularly important as shown by Ajdukovic and Ajdukovic (1993) who found that mothers» emotional well - being best predicted emotional well being and adaptation in children.

Early Intervention Program for Adolescent Mothers (EIP) Child Trends (2010) Explores the Early Intervention Program for Adolescent Mothers as an intense home - visiting program by nurses extending through pregnancy and 1 year after delivery and is designed to improve the health of pregnant adolescents through promoting positive maternal behaviors.

Of the 32 models reviewed, 12 met the DHHS criteria for an evidence - based early childhood home visiting model: (1) Child FIRST, (2) Early Head Start - Home Visiting (EHS), (3) Early Intervention Program for Adolescent Mothers (EIP), (4) Early Start (New Zealand), (5) Family Check - Up, (6) Healthy Families America (HFA), (7) Healthy Steps, (8) Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY), (9) Nurse - Family Partnership (NFP), (10) Oklahoma's Community - Based Family Resource and Support (CBFRS) Program, (11) Parents as Teachers (PAT), and (12) Play and Learning Strategies (PALS) for InfantOf the 32 models reviewed, 12 met the DHHS criteria for an evidence - based early childhood home visiting model: (1) Child FIRST, (2) Early Head Start - Home Visiting (EHS), (3) Early Intervention Program for Adolescent Mothers (EIP), (4) Early Start (New Zealand), (5) Family Check - Up, (6) Healthy Families America (HFA), (7) Healthy Steps, (8) Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY), (9) Nurse - Family Partnership (NFP), (10) Oklahoma's Community - Based Family Resource and Support (CBFRS) Program, (11) Parents as Teachers (PAT), and (12) Play and Learning Strategies (PALS) for Infantof Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY), (9) Nurse - Family Partnership (NFP), (10) Oklahoma's Community - Based Family Resource and Support (CBFRS) Program, (11) Parents as Teachers (PAT), and (12) Play and Learning Strategies (PALS) for Infants.

They are as follows: Child First, Early Head Start — Home Visiting, Early Intervention Program for Adolescent Mothers, Early Start, Family Check - Up, Healthy Families America, Healthy Steps, Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY), Nurse Family Partnership, Oklahoma Community - Based Family Resources and Support, Parents as Teachers, Play and Learning Strategies — Infant, SafeCare Augmented, and Maternal Early Childhood Sustained Home Visiting Program.

Fact: In families formed by black adolescent mothers,» [t] he presence of a father inside the home provide [d] only a modest advantage for children's well - being.

This finding is consistent with the meta - analysis by Amato and Gilbreth (1999) showing that when it comes to nonresident father involvement, although feelings of closeness and indicators of authoritative parenting have the strongest influence on child well - being, the effects are generally modest... Our results also reveal that the quality of the mother - child relationship has stronger, more consistent effects on adolescent well - being than the nonresident father - child relationship.

Depression, reflected in prolonged sadness and feelings of despair, is associated with less engaged, stimulating and proactive parenting, and with a range of social and cognitive problems in young children during infancy, toddlerhood and the preschool years.4 Because young children are so dependent on their mothers for cognitive stimulation and social interaction, they are more likely to be vulnerable to the impact of maternal depression than school - age children or adolescents.

The relation between child - rearing beliefs and the home environment in a sample of adolescent mothers.

Rather, the family context — more specifically the mother - child relationship, their level of interaction, and the mother's attitudes toward and discussion of sex — is associated with adolescent sexual debut.

Parents» marital conflict is expected to influence children's and adolescents» attachment security to the mother by reducing the responsiveness and effectiveness of her parenting (Markiewicz, Doyle, & Brendgen, 2001).

My colleagues and I have focused our research program on parent support of vulnerable groups and have found, through the use of randomized control trials, that systematic interventions directed at parenting behaviours improve parental contingency in low - income parents and in adolescent mothers.12, 13 Similarly, we have found that systematic intervention on family problem - solving behaviour, what Trivette and Dunst call participatory help - giving practice, also improves contingency of parent - child interactions.14

All these studies, however, also report that the quality of the mother - child relationship has a stronger, more consistent effect on adolescent well - being than the father - child relationship... The effects of nonresident father involvement on adolescent well - being found in this study are clearly modest.

Fact: «The primary aim of this study is to assess how multiple dimensions of nonresident father involvement are associated with different dimensions of adolescent well - being... studies provide some limited evidence that nonresident father - child closeness and authoritative parenting practices may contribute to adolescent well - being independently of the mother - child relationship.

She is also the principal investigator of a complementary study within the SHM project, funded by the William T. Grant Foundation, that uses a daily diary measurement approach to catalog everyday family interactions among mothers, fathers, and adolescent children.