Sentences with phrase «many fragile family»

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.

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.

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).

According to Sara McLanahan of Princeton University, the principal investigator of the Fragile Families Study, if we were to design a system from scratch to ensure that a child's basic needs would be met, it would look remarkably similar to the two - parent family.

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.

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).

Sometimes that concern is justified, especially for fragile families.

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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.

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.

Fragile Families Research Brief No. 46.

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.

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

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

-- 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.

Using the Fragile Families database, the study (Tornello et al., 2013) examined two samples taken 2 years apart: 384 one - year olds and 608 three - year - olds who overnighted were compared to 1,062 who did not overnight and had infrequent daytime contact with their fathers.

''... Tornello et al., 2013 should not be generalized to divorced parents or to the vast majority of never married parents because the data were from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing database (McClanahan, 2011).

This problem has been acknowledged by other researchers who have used the TAQ data from the Fragile Family database (Pudasainee - Kapri & Razza, 2013).

Fathers» risk factors in Fragile Families: implications for «healthy» relationships and father involvement

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.

The study, which used information from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, a joint effort by Princeton and Columbia universities, did not produce conclusive explanations for why young Hispanic women were less likely to gain too much weight during pregnancy compared with non-Hispanic women.

The heartbreaking reality finally caught up with this fragile family.

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.

It is only when Elliot begins to discover the true nature of what is lurking out there — and just what has unleashed this force that threatens the future of humanity - that he discovers a sliver of hope that his fragile family might be able to escape what is happening.

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.

As part of a long - term national project — the Fragile Families and Child Well - being Study, Mr. Johnson will focus on unmarried, low - income African - American men who don't live with their children.

Kids growing up in poverty and fragile families, and dysfunctional communities need a whole lot more than kids living with affluence and stability.

The last study investigates the differential effects of neighborhoods on disparities in children's behavioral school - readiness outcomes using the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (FFCWS)-- a rich longitudinal data that follows nearly 5,000 children between birth and nine years of age.

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.

Following the meeting, and with the support of the Funders Collaborative on Fathers and Families, NPNFF was formed to «encourage father involvement in fragile families and support communication among father - focused programs.»

The study used data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study to describe patterns of co-parenting over six years following the end of a nonmarital relationship, to identify individual and interpersonal characteristics associated with better co-parenting, and to examine whether co-parenting is associated with lower behavioral problems among children aged three through nine.

The Ford Foundation, in particular, played a key role with a series of Partners for Fragile Families initiatives that saw the creation of new agencies such as the Center for Fathers, Families and Public Policy (now the Center for Family Policy and Practice), the National Center on Fathers and Families (to gather and organize relevant research), and the National Practitioners Network for Fathers and Families (NPNFF).

Fragile Families showed that child support agencies and fatherhood programs can work together.

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.

Fragile families and child behavior problems Several studies using FFCWS data confirm that child behavior problems are elevated in both single - parent and cohabiting families.

Analyses were conducted using public - use data available from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, a prospective birth cohort study that follows up a nationally representative sample of children from 20 large cities in the United States.

This research is reviewed by Sharon Bzostek and Audrey Beck, «Family Structure and Child Health Outcomes in Fragile Families,» Working Paper 08 -11-FF (Princeton: Center for Research on Child Wellbeing, 2008); and by Robert Wood, Brian Goesling, and Sarah Avellar, «The Effects of Marriage on Health: A Synthesis of Recent Research Evidence,» report prepared by Mathematica Policy Research for U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, 2007.

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 Well - being Study design has been described in detail elsewhere.41 Briefly, mothers were interviewed in the hospital shortly after giving birth (baseline) and were subsequently interviewed via telephone when their children were aged approximately 12, 36, and 60 months.

See also discussion in Sara McLanahan, «Fragile Families and the Reproduction of Poverty,» Annals of American Academy of Political and Social Science 62, no. 1 (2009): 111 — 31; and Sara McLanahan and Christine Percheski, «Family Structure and the Reproduction of Inequality,» Annual Review of Sociology 34 (2008): 257 — 76.

We conducted a secondary analysis of data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (FFCWS).

The analysis presented in this article was conducted with public - use data from the Fragile Families and Child Well - being Study, a longitudinal birth cohort study of 4898 children born in the United States between 1998 and 2000.

METHODS: Respondents (N = 2461) participated in the Fragile Families and Child Well - being Study (1998 — 2005), a population - based, birth cohort study of children born in 20 large US cities.

Fragile Families, 20, 2.

(Harvard University Press, 1994); Sara McLanahan and others, «Unwed Fathers and Fragile Families,» Working Paper 98 -12-FF (Princeton: Center for Research on Child Wellbeing, March 1998).

Association Between Maternal Intimate Partner Violence and Incident Obesity in Preschool - Aged ChildrenResults From the Fragile Families and Child Well - being Study.