Sentences with phrase «less than biological parents»

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Another study of 2,900 Australian infants assessed at ages 1, 2 3, 5, 8, 10, and 14 years found that infants breastfed for 6 months or longer, had lower externalizing, internalizing, and total behaviour problem scores throughout childhood and into adolescence than never breastfed and infants fed for less than 6 months.8 These differences remained after statistical control for the presence of both biological parents in the home, low income and other factors associated with poor mental health.

Those with overprotective parents had less grey matter in the prefrontal cortex than those who'd had healthy relationships (Progress in Neuro - Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry, DOI: 10.1016 / j.pnpbp.2010.02.025).

After reviewing family research over the last decade, the issue's big takeaway, co-authored by Princeton sociologist Sara McLanahan and Brookings economist Isabel Sawhill, was this: Whereas most scholars now agree that children raised by two biological parents in a stable marriage do better than children in other family forms across a wide range of outcomes, there is less consensus about why.

Using the 1999 National Survey of American Families, Brown found that only 1.5 percent of all children lived with two cohabiting parents at the time of the survey.17 Similarly, an analysis of the 1995 Adolescent Health Study (Add Health) revealed that less than one - half of 1 percent of adolescents aged sixteen to eighteen had spent their entire childhoods living with two continuously cohabiting biological parents.18

They have less education, earn less income, report poorer relationship quality, and experience more mental health problems.12 These considerations suggest that children living with cohabiting biological parents may be worse off, in some respects, than children living with two married biological parents.

Adoptive parents are no less of a parent than a biological parent.

These less - than - healthy ways of attaching are often not diagnosed as disorders, but are common in children who have backgrounds of abuse or neglect or who are no longer with their biological parents, who have had the loss of one or more parents, who are in foster care, who have had several medical procedures or who have been adopted.

Adoption research also fails to find large (c 2 -LCB- \ displaystyle c ^ -LCB- 2 -RCB--RCB--RRB- components; that is, adoptive parents and their adopted children tend to show much less resemblance to one another than the adopted child and his or her non-rearing biological parent.

«Children who live with their biological fathers are, on average, at least two to three times more likely not to be poor, less likely to use drugs, less likely to experience educational, health, emotional and behavioral problems, less likely to be victims of child abuse, and less likely to engage in criminal behavior than their peers who live without their married, biological (or adoptive) parents.»

Dr. Coleman writes: «Divorce may introduce new adults into children's lives — adults who can cause the child to feel disloyal to the parent who's not there; adults who may compete for the love, attention, and resources from the parent who is; adults who generally have less investment in the child's well - being than the biological parent.»

Among young children, for example, those living with no biological parents, or in single - parent households, are less likely than children with two biological parents to exhibit behavioral self - control, and more likely to be exposed to high levels of aggravated parenting, than are children living with two biological parents.