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However, lessons were learned from these early programmes and in 2004, the Texas Fragile Families initiative reported an increase in child support orders / paternity establishment among its participants (with a «dose» effect — the longer the young father was involved in the programme, the more likely he was to establish paternity / pay child support); and employment rates up from 50 % at the start of the programme to almost 70 % at six months and 80 % at one year (Romo et al, 2004).

The term «fragile families» refers to families who are at greater risk of being single parent households and living in poverty than more traditional families.

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The view from TIFF: The raves haven't stopped for MMMM since it debuted at Sundance back in January, and for good reason: This is a terrifying, thought - provoking, strikingly cinematic piece of work, playing off the uncertainty of the heroine's mental state, the disparity between the cult compound and the lake - house, and the vulnerability of a fragile family unit nestled in the wilderness.

When what happened to them is revealed, the uproar that ensues tears apart families, reputations, and even the social fabric of the city, exposing dark secrets about some of the most powerful of its citizens, and putting fragile loves and lives at great risk.

Painted from historical photographs taken from old magazines, family albums and the propagandist publications distributed by the government during the Cultural Revolution, At a time of immense and rapid socio - economic change in China, these works look back at its past, marking a fragile line with delicate layers of ash between individual memory and official historical recorAt a time of immense and rapid socio - economic change in China, these works look back at its past, marking a fragile line with delicate layers of ash between individual memory and official historical recorat its past, marking a fragile line with delicate layers of ash between individual memory and official historical record.

Social and human service organizations often work with some of the most fragile and at - risk populations, including the elderly, the homeless, low - income families, people with disabilities, victims of domestic violence, and those fighting drug and alcohol addiction.

We provide an overview of the findings in this area, drawing primarily from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study and two studies conducted by the Child and Family Research Partnership at The University of Texas at Austin.

The authors used data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, a longitudinal birth cohort study including nearly 5,000 children born between 1998 and 2000 in hospitals in 20 U.S. cities, to consider these dimensions of dynamic family structure together, asking whether they independently predict children's behavior problems at age 9.

Other national demonstration projects followed, including the Fragile Families Demonstration, Fathers at Work, and the federal Office of Child Support Enforcement's (OCSE) Responsible Fatherhood project.

They use longitudinal data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (N = 3,377) to document and explain the association of family instability and multipartner fertility with three measures of child behavior at age 9: mother - reported and teacher - reported externalizing behavior and child - reported delinquency.

Participants A subsample of the Fragile Families and Child Well - being Study participants (n = 1595), who were children born between 1998 and 2000 and their parents interviewed at baseline and at 12, 36, and 60 months.

The Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study The Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study is a new data set that follows a cohort of approximately 5,000 children born between 1998 and 2000 in medium to large U.S. cities.37 Approximately 3,700 of the children were born to unmarried mothers and 1,200 to married mothers.38 The study initiated interviews with parents at a time when both were in the hospital for the birth of their child and therefore available for interviews.39 As a consequence, FFCWS is able to comprehensively detail the characteristics of both parents and the nature of their relationship at the time of the child's birth.

In terms of child cognitive development, the FFCWS studies are consistent with past research in suggesting that children in fragile families are likely at risk of poorer school achievement.

Using data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, Ms. Lane will discuss the association between early occurrence of stressful life events (SLEs) and aggressive behavior for children at age 5.

The Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, which followed a cohort of nearly 5,000 children born in large U.S. cities between 1998 and 2000 (roughly three - quarters of whom were born to unmarried parents), sheds light on the relationships of low - income, unmarried parents.11 The vast majority of unmarried fathers in the study indicated they were romantically involved with their child's mother at the time of the child's birth.

Often in dysfunctional families where a child feels unsupported or ignored, that child will take it out on a sibling because for any number of reasons she fears that going directly at the parent would crash her own fragile world, regardless of how unpleasant it may be.

«Fathers» Risk Factors and Their Implications for Healthy Relationships and Father Involvement,» Fragile Families Research Brief 37 (2007): 1 — 3; «Predictors of Homelessness and Doubling - Up among At - Risk Families,» Fragile Families Research Brief 43 (2008): 1 — 3.

Data are taken from the Fragile Families and Child Well - Being Study at Princeton University, at http://crcw.princeton.edu/fragilefamilies.

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.

We have seen vulnerable children and families bear the brunt of our state's budget problems before, but never at a time when the service - delivery infrastructure is already incredibly fragile and on the very edge of collapse.

The Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (FFCW), meanwhile, finds that «nearly half of parents who are cohabiting at the time of their child's birth break up within five years, compared to only 20 percent of married parents.»

Cohabiting couples who have a child in their twenties and then break up — and that's almost two - fifths of them in the first five years — often also go on to have another partner or partners.44 One study of young urban parents based on data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study found that for 59 percent of unmarried couples with a baby, at least one partner already had a child from a previous relationship.

Kiernan, K., McLanahan, S., Holmes, J. & Wright, M. (2011) Fragile Families in the US & UK Online at: http://crcw.princeton.edu/workingpapers/WP11-05-FF.pdf Accessed: 8th August.

Best Practices in Treatment Foster Care for Children and Youth With Medically Fragile Conditions (PDF - 342 KB) Foster Family - based Treatment Association (2013) Discusses challenges and successful strategies in providing treatment foster care to children and youth diagnosed with at least one chronic condition requiring long - term reliance on medical care.

In 2013, the actress gave a moving speech at the Golden Globes that many interpreted as her publicly confirming her sexuality, saying: «This is not going to be a big coming - out speech tonight because I already did my coming out about a thousand years ago back in the stone age — in those very quaint days when a fragile girl would open up to trusted friends and family and coworkers and then gradually proudly to everyone who knew her.»