Sentences with phrase «ethnic minority families»

The 50 % cap on religious selection in free schools has significantly boosted the access of ethnic minority families to their local schools.

Promoting mental health in early childhood programs: Serving low - income ethnic minority families.

Some of these were child custody evaluations, while others were «bonding and attachment» or «parental capacity» assessments of under - served ethnic minority families.

An intervention was developed to promote parent involvement with ethnic minority families of children attending Head Start preschool programs.

Hence, many studies have also shown that Asian ethnic minority families who practice something similar to authoritarian parenting (a parenting style which scored poorly to mediocre in the studies of white middle class families) apparently result in children who excel both academically and socially.

Chand Child and Family Social Work, 10 (2), 2005 View Abstract Considers research on family support services for ethnic minority families, including an overview of what is known about family support services for particular minority ethnic groups and the qualities sought in social workers by ethnic minority parents.

With regard to family relations, it may arise from time to time that what we expect and what is expect and what we do and what is perceived are different, but this sort of thing does arise within ethnic minority families commonly.

Parenting is linked to ethnicity and culture, as one research in the US has found that authoritative parenting style is mostly followed by the white families while authoritarian is common with ethnic minority families such as African American, Asian American, and Hispanic American (1).

Children from ethnic minority families with a relatively recent immigration history in Western Europe are at higher risk for the development of conduct disorder (e.g., Sagatun et al. 2008).

«The impact of poverty and low socioeconomic status on the socioemotional functioning of African - American children and adolescents: mediating effects,» in Social and Emotional Adjustment and Family Relations in Ethnic Minority Families, eds R. D. Taylor and M. Wang (Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum), 7 — 34.

The survey sample was unrepresentative in that manual class families were under represented and ethnic minority families over represented compared to norms for the City of Oxford and for England.

In the U.S., children from low - income and ethnic minority families are more likely to be obese.

Limitations include generalizability of the findings to ethnic minority families and to families living in suburban and urban setting, and lack of reliable and valid measures.

We also found that, while students» prior academic performance is one of the strongest predictors of parental expectations among European American families, it is not a particularly strong predictor for racial / ethnic minority families.