Sentences with phrase «fragile families»

He may be less likely to associate strong families with strong faith, and more likely to see the ways in which religious faith can be a balm for fragile families.

If loneliness, isolation, and extremely fragile families are big parts of the poverty problem, then connecting poor children with thriving families and communities can be part of the solution.

Sometimes that concern is justified, especially for fragile families.

These numbers portend a future of fragile families in America.

Fragile Families Research Brief No. 46.

Strengthen Fragile Families by reaching out to those coping with homelessness, mental illness, substance abuse and domestic violence — some of the strongest risk factors for child abuse and neglect.

The Texas Fragile Families demonstration project, for example, has succeeded in improving workforce participation and employment prospects for young fathers despite substantial barriers — not only in the young men themselves, but in local employment and training programmes which were found to be ill - set - up to support them (Romo et al, 2004).

Instead of putting the emphasis (and limited financial resources) on trying to prevent divorce, we as a society would be better off if we helped fragile families, whether married or cohabiting; poverty, joblessness, frequent cohabitation by single mothers (and 40 percent of births to single mothers are women who are cohabiting)-- this is what's creating conditions that lead to suffering among children.

Handout developed for NPCL Fatherhood Development Training as part of the Partners for Fragile Families project funded by the Ford Foundation.

Additionally, it is worth noting that it is children from the most fragile families who potentially have most to gain most from seeing more of their dads, according to major research by Professor Judy Dunn at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College, London.

They work to strengthen fragile families at serious risk of abusing or neglecting their children or of permanently losing custody of their children.

Based upon research conducted by the National Center for Fathering (NCF) and our experiences with local court initiatives, this curriculum provides «culturally» relevant material that addresses many issues for fathers involving fragile families in urban areas.

In general, young, unwed African - American fathers are disproportionately represented among poor fathers in so - called fragile families, researchers say.

Garfield and his colleagues, in a recently published article in the journal Psychology of Men & Masculinity, surveyed a group of unmarried fathers living in Chicago and Milwaukee who were participating in the national Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, which is being conducted by the Bendheim - Thoman Center for Research on Child Wellbeing at Princeton University.

In one cut Nair has communicated a sense of how fragile the family's pleasures are, how the forces of history are waiting to swallow them up.

Meanwhile, best pal Shane (Will Poulter) is off to Australia, something John would be a prime candidate for were there not so many fragile family plates spinning at home.

Intensive care for fragile families requires similar support.»

In both Head Start and Early Head Start, medically fragile families are served throughout the city of Chicago.

She had done a great deal of analysis of the large, influential Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study.

(Fragile Families Working Paper 11 -13-FF).

Benheim - Thoman Center for Research on Child Wellbeing, Princeton University, and Social Indicators Survey Center, Columbia University, «Fragile Families Research Brief» No. 1, May 2000.

This is illustrated in Chart 1, which uses data from the Princeton Fragile Families and Child Well - being Survey — a well - known survey of couples who are unmarried at the time of a child's birth.

Instead of putting the emphasis (and limited financial resources) on trying to prevent divorce, we as a society would be better off if we helped fragile families, whether married or cohabiting; poverty, joblessness, frequent cohabitation by single mothers (and 40 percent of births to single mothers are women who are cohabiting)-- this is what's creating conditions that lead to suffering among children.

The new initiatives are designed to help fight the war on poverty in Erie County by strengthening fragile families, providing supports for people when necessary, and providing the tools necessary for individuals and families to learn new skills and make better choices.

This is bad for kids and spouses as well as mothers, and tends to strain sometimes already fragile families.

The researchers drew their data from a number of British and American longitudinal surveys, including the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, which includes nearly 5,000 participants born in big US cities between 1998 and 2000.

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Additional support for the Fragile Families and Child Well - Being Study was provided by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and a consortium of private foundations.

The Fragile Families and Child Well - Being Study, led by researchers from Princeton and Columbia Universities, found that most unwed fathers are involved with the mothers of their children and say they want to be involved in raising their offspring.

Data from three waves of the Fragile Families Study (N = 2,111) was used to examine the prevalence and effects of mothers» relationship changes between birth and age 3 on their children's well - being.

A study using data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study revealed that in many cases the absence of a biological father contributes to increased risk of child maltreatment.

The study's researchers observed 715 families registered by the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing (FFCW).

Unfortunately, because observer ratings would have been too expensive, the TAQ ratings in the Fragile Families study had to be done by the mothers.