Sentences with phrase «neglectful families»

Patterns of competence and adjustment among adolescents from authoritative, authoritarian, indulgent, and neglectful families.

Over-time changes in adjustment and competence among adolescents from authoritative, authoritarian, indulgent, and neglectful families.

Few prevention programs have been rigorously evaluated, and only a few have proven effective.60, 61 Health - care based prevention programs, including parent education programs to reduce rates of abusive head trauma, and improving physician ambulatory care practices to help families decrease risk factors for child maltreatment have shown good initial results, but require further evaluation.62, 63 Specific intensive home visitation programs such as nurse home visiting programs for first - time mothers have proven to be both clinically and cost effective in preventing maltreatment.64, 65 However, a program of nurse home visitation has been found ineffective as a treatment model for abusive and neglectful families, highlighting the importance of primary prevention, as well as the need to rigorously evaluate potential treatments for abusive families.66 Child welfare services are historically structured as short - term interventions that monitor families for recidivism, provide parenting education and assist with referrals to community - based services.

At any given time, more than half a million American children reside in foster care, and more than 800,000 children pass through the foster care system annually.57 Almost 30,000 young adults annually leave foster care without achieving permanency in familial relationships.58 Despite spending billions of dollars annually on in home child protection services for abusive and neglectful families and foster care, 59 the effectiveness of standard child welfare services is largely unproven.

I also work with «hard problems» like affairs, addictions, and growing up in chaotic and abusive and neglectful families.

On March 16 the sheriff's office tweeted that the MASH Horses Unit had saved the horse «Fabio» from a neglectful family.

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I am referring to Catholic schools which do not regard the Church's social and moral teaching as pillars of education, and those which include a significant number of children from families which are nominally Catholic, non-Catholic, broken, lacking in child supervision or neglectful.

The study of 872 families divided mothers into four groups — authoritarian, permissive, neglectful and flexible — and checked the kids» body mass indexes two years later.

Mr Narey warned children may be subjected to «neglectful or abusive birth families» during the delay.

Even as she longs for the loving family life her younger half sisters share with her former stepfather, resilient sixth - grader Addie copes with living in a trailer in Schenectady, New York, with her neglectful mother.

My family just took in a maltese that had been rescued from a neglectful home.

They find homes for dogs that can no longer remain with their families because of illness, devorce, relocation or other disruptions; adopt purebred dogs from animal shelters and find them new homes and rescue dogs from puppy mills and other cruel and neglectful situations.

We provide immediate and aggressive legal help for families of children hurt by abusive or neglectful child care providers.

Although the client was a skillful lawyer with good interpersonal skills who attracted many clients, says Parsons, «she felt guilty and anxious that she was neglectful of both her clients and her family — a feeling of «failing everywhere.

Oppositional - defiant disorder is more common in families where there is marital discord, where a parent has a history of an antisocial, mood, or attention disorder, and where child rearing practices are either harsh (punishing), inconsistent (a succession of different caregivers), or neglectful.

As a daughter of an Aboriginal man and the wife of an Aboriginal man, I know that Bill Leak's claim that Aboriginal fathers are neglectful is not representative of Aboriginal family life.

His statement tells us about who he presumes to be neglectful parents — that they are Indigenous and / or poor, and should be subject to regulations and controls over daily life in ways that families in white and wealthy communities aren't.

Crime - prone youth are more likely to come from families where parents are abusive or neglectful, provide harsh or erratic discipline, or exhibit marital discord.

Given that early - onset antisocial behavior is associated with (1) subtle neurological impairment, (2) harsh, punitive, and neglectful parenting, and (3) family contexts characterized by substance abuse and criminal behavior,2 - 5 it is important to note that this program has affected these aspects of maternal, child, and family functioning at earlier phases in the child's development.6 - 11 Moreover, genetic vulnerability to impulsivity and aggression is expressed much more frequently when vulnerable rhesus monkeys experience aberrant rearing21 (also Allyson J. Bennett, PhD, K. Peter Lesch, Armin Heils, et al, unpublished data, 1998), adding to the plausibility of the findings reported here.

Neglectful parents need to seek help to come on track and have healthy relationship with their family.

Cunningly convince other adults such as the mother's husband, extended family members, therapists, educators, family friends, etc. of falsities about the mother (i.e. — that she is irrational, cruel, or neglectful)

In children and adolescents, oppositional defiant disorder is more prevalent in families in which child care is disrupted by a succession of different caregivers or in families in which harsh, inconsistent, or neglectful child - rearing practices are common.

Harsh, inconsistent, or neglectful child - rearing practices are common in families of children and adolescents with oppositional defiant disorder, and these parenting practices play an important role in many causal theories of the disorder.

Children growing up in such aggressive families may believe that family aggression is acceptable and thus become more likely to behave in aggressive or harmful ways toward others.12 13 On the other hand, neglectful parents tend to show minimal physical affection towards their children, know little about child development and have incompetent caretaking skills14 which can put their children at a higher risk for obesity and other diseases.

Children from abusive homes evidenced significantly more depressive symptomatology than children from either neglectful or nonmaltreating families.

Family Bridges isn't for everyone and it's critical for family law lawyers and judges to be sure the alienation isn't because of «realistic estrangement» — a parent who is abusive or neglectful or has a new partner, for instance, whom the child doesn'tFamily Bridges isn't for everyone and it's critical for family law lawyers and judges to be sure the alienation isn't because of «realistic estrangement» — a parent who is abusive or neglectful or has a new partner, for instance, whom the child doesn'tfamily law lawyers and judges to be sure the alienation isn't because of «realistic estrangement» — a parent who is abusive or neglectful or has a new partner, for instance, whom the child doesn't like.