Sentences with phrase «intact families»

Children in divorced families, where the parents have low levels of conflict, adjust better than children in intact families with high levels of conflict.

Others have found that children of divorced parents are up to six times more likely to be delinquent than are children from intact families.

And, of course, even children of intact families seek to manipulate parents to meet their own ends.

His focus is on intact families as being better than broken families and single mother households.

For intact families where father and mother are married, committed fathers are fiercely loyal to their wives or partners.

For intact families where father and mother are married, committed fathers are fiercely loyal to their wives or partners.

In general, children living in intact families do better than those who do not.

Throughout that period a stable, intact family unit was considered essential to national prosperity and to moral progress.

The support amount is based upon the income of both parents and the average amount that intact families spend on their children.

Social work also has an important contribution to make in supporting intact families in the community.

... conflict is bad for children, and so researchers suggest that if parents contain their conflict, their children should be as well off as children in healthy intact families.

Even in intact families there can be an imbalance in how much parenting each partner does.

In intact families teenagers have increased voices in planning their schedules.

Parents in intact families monitor their children carefully for a match between their schedule and the child's response.

She noted with pride that they are all still intact families.

Healthy, intact families mean healthy children mean a healthy nation.

Children in intact families perform better on a wide variety of measures of physical health, mental health, and educational outcomes than do the children of divorce.

The participants comprised 80 adolescents from single parent families and 98 adolescents from intact families.

There is about a 14 percent difference in this area between children of divorce and children of intact families.

After all, the holidays can be complicated even for intact families.

As in intact families, parents attempting joint custody should pay close attention to how much stress their children are experiencing.

Despite the painfully bad educational outcomes in many public schools in ghettos across the country, there are also cases where charter schools in the very same ghettos turn out students whose test scores are not only far higher than those in other ghetto schools, but sometimes are comparable to the test scores in schools in upscale suburban communities, where children come from intact families with highly educated parents.

Intimate relationships of young adults from divorced and intact family backgrounds as a function of biological father and male model involvement.

Biologically intact families provided a control group in that the sisters in these families each lived with both parents into adulthood.

Even in intact families problems can arise if in - laws don't get along: I'm lucky with my own in - laws so I asked a counsellor colleague,...

Family Therapy; intact families struggling with the complicated, competitive and technological life of raising children and adolescents, families grieving loss and all other significant changes that affects a family.

In addition, to the areas of divorce and child custody, these include elder mediation, parent - child mediation, family business mediation, conflict within intact families, intergenerational conflicts, and conflicts involving non-traditional families, such as same sex couples and adoptions.

Young children form a sense of identity from their family base, and, notwithstanding the fiction, joint custody does not give the child a whole family, nor does it approximate a two - parent intact family.

The college - educated cluster into pristine subdivisions, work just as much as ever, get married, and sustain intact families.

Arizona is one of the states that exempts intact families from grandparent visitation suits.

For instance, boys who enjoy high - quality relationships with their fathers are about half as likely to be delinquent, compared to boys being raised by single mothers or by fathers in intact families who only have low - quality relationships with them.

Fears of intimacy and commitment, thought to be results of divorce, are in fact phenomena often experienced by children who grew up in disturbed intact families.

I came from a typical New Jersey intact family.

Eighty adolescents (aged 13 to 16) from 37 divorcing and 41 intact families participated in 1981 - 82.

For this CB demonstration project funded in 2007, the Illinois project team (1) evaluated the IAP serving children in placement and (2) implemented the process presented in the Administration for Children and Families» Comprehensive Family Assessment Guidelines (2005) and further refined and adapted the IA model for use with intact family services cases.

The demonstration project was designed to (1) evaluate the IAP serving children in placement and (2) to adapt, implement, and evaluate the IAP for serving intact families.

«Replace tax incentives which favor broken families or single parenthood with small but important «bonuses» to encourage and reward intact families, thus changing the tacit role of government from anti-family and anti-fatherhood to pro-family and pro-fatherhood.»

Intact families make these kinds of decisions routinely so there is no reason separated spouses can't discuss relocations that affect the children as one unit, Paul says.

Children of intact families benefit from both parents» incomes.

Determined to uncover the truth, Elizabeth Marquardt herself a child of divorce conducted, with Professor Norval Glenn, a pioneering national study of children of divorce, surveying 1,500 young adults from both divorced and intact families between 2001 and 2003.

Saltz added the behavior of a candidate's children or how intact their family does not also reflect being a good leader.

Terms commonly used to describe Family stabilization programs may include family preservation, family support, family engagement, home visiting, and place - based services (these are usually housed in a community or neighborhood center, but have an in - home component providing parenting classes, after school programs, and other family services aimed at supporting, stabilizing, and maintaining intact families).

Dani can support you as you you encounter different challenges through the divorce process such as mourning the loss of your previously intact family, emotionally and financially adapting to living apart, dealing with the emotional impact of the divorce on the children, finding new ways to effectively parent in a changing environment and working to rebuild your social network.

He said that the study found that intact families scored second - best, and children raised by single mothers ranked third in such areas as the lack of juvenile delinquency, staying out of prison, maintaining job skills, and empathy.

Virginia Satir: «The Lost Boy» Large intact family with ten children whose presenting problem is the grief following the loss of one of their children who is still missing a year after his abduction.

These results indicate decades of Republicans preaching about intact families has failed the test of effectiveness, as the number of children in two parent homes has eroded substantially.

Studies generally show that children in reconstituted families have lower well - being than children in intact families whereas the difference in relation to children in single - parent families is often small (Bernardi et al. 2013; Coleman et al. 2000; Sweeney 2010; Turunen 2013).