A study of 109 juvenile offenders indicated that
family structure significantly predicts delinquency.
Not exact matches
[134] It found that gender imbalance in ATSIC's political
structure was in part caused by insufficient recognition of the role of Indigenous women and matters that impact
significantly on them (such as substance abuse, homelessness and
family violence), as well as inadequate leadership development and a failure to involve women in formal decision - making processes.
However, our analysis reveals that, with the exception of girls in single - parent
families,
family structure does not
significantly influence adolescents» sexual initiation.
Family structure as viewed by the parents related
significantly, though weakly, to all three scales of the patient reports of adolescents» functioning, while only one weak correlation was found with spouse reports of the adolescents» externalizing of problems.
In particular, parents of adolescents with ADHD describe their
family environments as being less organized and
structured and having
significantly greater
family conflict in comparison to parents of adolescents without ADHD (Deault 2010; Schroeder and Kelley 2009).