Sentences with phrase «factors for vulnerable families»

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International dating used to be considered a risk factor for women, as moving countries they are losing support of their family and friends and becoming more vulnerable.

For example, substantial evidence exists that families most plagued by domestic violence are least likely to respond to home - visiting support.23 Other factors that hamper success of home visiting include limited family resources, family mental illness, and families not motivated to participate in the programs.24 Thus, the very risk factors that make children vulnerable interfere with the effectiveness of the programs that are designed to help them.

Enhancing family and environmental protective factors means children are less likely to be vulnerable because they receive the acceptance, warmth and support required for their learning and development.

Typical twin concordance rates for adolescent delinquency are 87 % for monozygotic twins and 72 % for dizygotic twins.11 Adoption studies suggest that genetically vulnerable children - that is, children whose birth parents were antisocial - may be especially susceptible to unfavourable family conditions, so that an interaction is seen (fig 12 The genetic element seems to be stronger for adult criminality than childhood conduct disorder and delinquency.13 To understand what these environmental and genetic factors might be, we need to turn to other studies.

Parents as Teachers provides a broad context of parenting education and family support, and building protective factors, especially for those families in vulnerable situations.

You'll be able to help them identify current life stressors, family of origin experiences, and other factors that made them vulnerable to an affair; appreciate the power, addiction, and illusion of romantic love; and make thoughtful, self - interested decisions about whether to fight for the relationship or end it.

Moffitt et al. (2001) extensively investigated potential sex - differences in the prevalence of risk factors and the impact of family risk factors on delinquency and concluded that, in general, boys seem to be more exposed to risk factors of delinquency, rather than that they are more vulnerable for risk factors of delinquency compared to girls.