Sentences with phrase «of adolescent mothers who»

Longitudinal study of early childhood injuries and acute illness in the offspring of adolescent mothers who were aggressive, withdrawn, or aggressive - withdrawn in childhood.

Not exact matches

Contrary to common belief, many young fathers have real strengths; and the stereotype of the young buck who impregnates the neighbourhood is largely an urban myth: the single most powerful predictor of adolescent fatherhood is being involved in a long - term relationship with the baby's mother (Hanson et al, 1989).

Thanks for watching this episode of The Family Couch In this episode of The Family Couch we chat with Nicole Burgess, a licensed marriage and family therapist who works with mothers and daughters who struggle to connect during the adolescent years.

Here, to illustrate the connection between fatherhood and child well - being, I compare adolescent boys and girls who fall into one of four categories: those living in an intact, married family with a high - quality relationship with their father (top third), or an average - quality relationship with their father (middle third), or a low - quality relationship with him (bottom third), or living in a single - mother family.

For instance, in one recent study, adolescents who had been coached by their mothers showed a pattern of decreasing behavior problems over time (Shortt et al 2010).

After analyzing the medical records of more than 1,000 women who gave birth between the ages of 15 and 24, investigators from the University of Michigan conclude that physicians caring for adolescent women should use BMI before pregnancy as a strong predictor of whether a young mother will gain too much weight during pregnancy, a risk factor for later obesity.

And the first one on board is Felicity Jones, with the actress joining the Black List approved story that follows an adolescent boy with a terminally ill single mother begins having visions of a tree monster, who tells him the truths about life in the form of three stories, helping him to eventually cope with his emotions over his dying mom.

Seattle director Megan Griffiths (SIFF prizewinner for Eden in 2012) returns with a study of an adolescent girl who plots an unorthodox solution to the long absences of her military father and the wavering fidelity of her mother (played by the great Melanie Lynskey, who'll be in town as the recipient of a festival tribute this year).

Set in St. Louis during the Great Depression, King of the Hill follows the daily struggles of a resourceful and imaginative adolescent who, after his younger brother is sent to live with a relative and his tubercular mother to a sanitarium, must survive on his own in a run - down hotel during his salesman father's long business trips.

«The feminist critique of objectivity rests heavily on the psychoanalytical perspective of Nancy Chodorow, who has argued that female and male children articulate their adolescent identity through fundamentally divergent responses to the maternal bond: To forge their identity as men, male children must detach themselves from their primary love - object, whereas female children forge their identitites as women in continuing identification with the mothers.......

For instance, in one recent study, adolescents who had been coached by their mothers showed a pattern of decreasing behavior problems over time (Shortt et al 2010).

In Denver, mothers who received home visits had more sensitive mother - infant interactions and higher HOME scores than mothers who did not.80 Home visiting, however, had no significant effects on different aspects of the home environment in Elmira or Memphis.81 One possible explanation for this difference is that the majority of mothers at the Elmira and Memphis sites were adolescents, whereas the Denver mothers were more diverse in age, suggesting stronger effects for older mothers than for younger mothers with respect to the quality of the home environment.

In grade 11, mothers reported that adolescents who had experienced early maltreatment had levels of aggression, anxiety / depression, dissociation, delinquent behaviors, PTSD, social problems, thought problems, and social withdrawal that were on average twice as high as those of their nonmaltreated counterparts.

These findings approximate those of the more recent National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well - Being (NSCAW) that 20 percent of children in an investigation for abuse and neglect had a mother who, by either the child welfare worker's or mother's account, was involved with drugs or alcohol; that figure rises to 42 percent for children who are placed into foster care.7 These studies have clearly established a positive relationship between a caregiver's substance abuse and child maltreatment among children in out - of - home care and among children in the general population.

In addition to overall comparisons between families in the treatment and control groups, Kimberly Dumont and colleagues also identified a «prevention subgroup» of adolescents who were first - time mothers and who were enrolled in the program prenatally.

Comparisons of adolescent drug users and nonusers document the importance of fathers who provide praise and encouragement and of mothers who provide advice and guidance to drug - abstaining youth (Coombs & Landsverk, 1988).

The program originally developed in Elmira served primarily white, rural adolescent mothers (400 mothers, divided into four different treatment groups) for whom data are available through the child's fifteenth birthday.27 It was replicated in Memphis with an urban sample of 1,139 predominantly African American adolescent mothers and their children who have been followed through age nine28 and in Denver with an ethnically diverse sample of 735 low - income mothers and their children who have been followed through age four.29 Beginning in 1996, NFP programs began expanding to other states using a mix of private, local, and federal funds.

«Using a representative household sample of over 600 Buffalo, New York, adolescents and their parents, researchers found that white adolescents in single mother families who were involved with their non-resident fathers had lower incidence of delinquency, heavy drinking, and drug use than their peers living with a single mother with no father involvement.

While psychological problems in the family are significantly related to child psychopathology in refugee children and adolescents, the role of mothers appears to be particularly important as shown by Ajdukovic and Ajdukovic (1993) who found that mothers» emotional well - being best predicted emotional well being and adaptation in children.

Because national policies require that eligibility for public services be restricted to adolescent mothers who are in the guardianship of an adult, 23 we limited our sample to adolescent mothers who were living with their mother (grandmother of the infant).

Thanks for watching this episode of The Family Couch In this episode of The Family Couch we chat with Nicole Burgess, a licensed marriage and family therapist who works with mothers and daughters who struggle to connect during the adolescent years.

Results showed that the benefits of IPT - A over TAU were particularly strong for the adolescents who reported high baseline levels of conflict with their mothers and social dysfunction with friends.

In an examination of four nationally representative samples in the USA, McLanahan and Sandefur (1994) showed that adolescents raised by single mothers during some period of their childhood were twice as likely to drop out of high school, twice as likely to have a baby before the age of 20 and one and a half times more likely to be out of work in their late teens or early twenties than those from a similar background who grew up with two parents at home.

[21] Research on the children of depressed mothers indicates that having a father who is also depressed is associated with worse outcomes for children and adolescents than those accompanying maternal depression alone.

On the other hand, children of single adolescent mothers, or who did not attend a preschool program are less likely to complete secondary education.

She has expertise with a wide range of issues including late adolescent / young adult struggles with identity development, women's adaptation to new roles as mothers who may have to juggle work and family and helping those who are faced with the challenges of aging...

Among adolescent mothers who had a confrontational relationship with their own mothers, parenting satisfaction was closely tied to infant temperament, such that mothers of infants with difficult temperaments reported low levels of satisfaction.

Thus, we limited our sample to adolescent mothers who were living with their mother (grandmother of the baby).

She has expertise with a wide range of issues including late adolescent / young adult struggles with identity development, women's adaptation to new roles as mothers who may have to juggle work and family and helping those who are faced with the challenges of aging... More

Adolescent mothers who have a confrontational relationship with their mothers may experience limited support in their parenting role and therefore may be particularly dependent on their infants» temperaments as a marker of their parenting satisfaction.

Our objective was to examine differences in size and intelligence between two cohorts of offspring born to adolescent (n = 357) and adult mothers (n = 668) who attended the same prenatal clinic.

The participants in Study 1 included 240 adolescents who differed with regard to their mothers» history of depressive disorders.