Sentences with phrase «poorer quality of parenting»

The poorer quality of parenting shown by single mothers may also be explained, at least in part, by the higher rates of psychological problems, particularly depression, found among single mothers.

The poorer quality of parenting shown by single mothers may be explained, at least in part, by higher rates of psychological problems, particularly depression (Dunn et al., 1998).

The summary consisted of several sentences describing the link between spanking and short - and long - term child behavior problems, including aggressive and delinquent acts, poor quality of parent - child relationships and an increased risk of child physical abuse.

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When sleeping is not made a priority, parents typically experience: · Exhaustion · Irritability · Decreased productivity · A suffering quality of life · A negative mood · Declining physical health · Lack of focus With poor sleep and an increased irritable mood, our problems feel bigger than they really are and stress can become intensified.

Here's your note: A few young parents might get worried that as an umbrella stroller feels lightweight, then it must be made of poor quality.

Some researchers estimate that as much as one third of the parenting gap we find between poor - quality and high - quality parenting could be closed by better support to families, 27 which is at least equal to the fraction of the gap that could be closed by changes in preschools, as we saw earlier.

While father absence has been associated with a host of negative children's outcomes, including increased risk of dropping out of school and lower educational attainment, poorer physical and mental health, and behavioural problems,36 - 40 higher levels of involvement by nonresident fathers may assuage the negative effects of father absence on children's outcomes.41, 42 Quality of the parents» relationship before divorce, or of the pre-divorce father / child relationship, can also be an important factor: children fare worse following divorce when pre-divorce relationships were good and fare better when pre-divorce relationships were poor, 43,44 suggesting children are sometimes better off without a father if the father's relationship to the child or the mother was not good.

Outbred parents provide more care inbred offspring to compensate for the detrimental effects of poor genetic quality

The other public schools are of such poor quality that any parents who can afford to do so send their children to expensive private schools.

The conscience of a liberal should struggle with supporting a system in which the children of the poor are consigned to attend the school that is assigned to them by public officials, regardless of its quality, whereas more affluent parents can shop for the school they want for their children by purchasing a home in the vicinity of the public school they prefer or paying private school tuition.

In light of the cross committee super inquiry, schools should expect more pressure from parents in the near future, as awareness around the effects of poor air quality on their children's health grows, and the need for fast, effective solutions becomes all the more apparent and urgent.

All of the «options» Florida is offering have the same issues as public education: they are only as good as the quality of programs & people - administrators, teachers, evaluators, etc. implementing them - and more importantly, in the voucher plan there are two huge issues: 1) poor and uneducated parents rarely are aware of the range of quality and number of schools available (which I am sure the politicians are counting on) 2) Even if every parent were saavy in the needs of their child and the kind of school they should look for, there aren't enough of those schools available...

Parent Power groups are also going to push the legislature to eliminate the state's Zip Code Education policies, which essentially limit the ability of poor and minority families to provide their kids the high - quality education they deserve.

If the quality of public education is generally poor, then parents must compete for a small number of adequate schools - a competition that will be won by those with the greatest access to resources.

Parent View gives you the chance to tell Ofsted what you think about your child's school, from the quality of teaching to dealing with bullying and poor behaviour.

There's a lot of conjecture about why preschool investments may not pay off as much as one might expect: the length of the preschool, parents» involvement, support services, low quality curricula, and poor oversight.

Unfortunately, such high - quality parenting support is available to only a handful of poor families.

It said, that it is «clear that as children get older they will read more digital material» and that «those who have discovered the digital world with their parents may be more discerning readers and be less vulnerable to the allure of inappropriate or poor quality content.»

I can breed the finest cats genetically, but, if they're fed a diet of poor quality food, they won't have much of a chance to follow in their parents paw prints as strong, healthy, beautiful cats.

«While the puppies are sold for profit, their parents are kept at these mills for years, subjected to incessant breeding and a very poor quality of life.

Although not previously linked to health inequalities, sleep problems are associated with poorer health - related quality of life, psychosocial and behavioural problems, and risk for obesity.41 Physical health indicators were based on parent report and dichotomised according to recommended cut - points (table 1).

The role of parental relationship quality It has long been recognized in the research on divorced parents that the quality of parents» relationships (for example, how well they get along and how much conflict they experience) would be a key intervening variable explaining links between divorce or separation and poorer child outcomes.

Such programs would provide parent education classes for divorcing parents, increase the minimum wage and the earned income tax credit for poor working parents, establish paternity and increase the payment of child support, and improve the quantity and quality of time that nonresident parents, especially fathers, spend with their children.

As noted, single parents, on average, have fewer resources, are in poorer mental health, and have more problematic relationships with their partners — any of which might in turn affect the quality of parenting that single mothers provide for their children.

For example, adults who experience parental divorce as a child have lower socioeconomic attainment, an increased risk of having a nonmarital birth, weaker bonds with parents, lower psychological well - being, poorer marital quality, and an elevated risk of seeing their own marriage end in divorce.7 Overall, the evidence is consistent that parental divorce during childhood is linked with a wide range of problems in adulthood.

The quality of relationships parents make with their children predicts healthy eating, 3 and the only programmes which have an (albeit modest) impact in reversing childhood obesity are programmes which offer development of parenting skills as well as lifestyle advice.4 5 Adverse parenting is also a risk factor for the adoption of smoking, 6 alcohol and drug misuse, 6 teenage pregnancy, 6 and poor mental health in children, 7 adolescents8 9 and adults.10 11 It is possible to show that adverse parenting and poor quality parent — child relationships are risk factors for poor health in general6 12 — 14 and symptoms of poor physical health6 12 13 in childhood and adulthood, as well as cardiovascular disease, 6 13 cancer, 6 13 musculoskeletal problems, 6 13 injury15 and mortality6 in later life.

These stressors involved witnessing parent financial struggles; and the lack of resources (ie, hunger, homelessness, and poor - quality clothing) caused by family financial struggles.

Insecure attachments are significantly linked to poor styles of parenting that affect the quality of the child's attachment, such as disturbed family interactions, parental rejection, inattentive or disorganized parenting, neglect, and abuse.

Eight studies that examined the identification of psychosocial risk factors for poor parenting, quality of the home environment for supporting child development, and office assessment of the parent - child relationship were reviewed (Table 1).

Many of these children will likely end up in unregulated or poor - quality care so that their parents can continue to work.

With regard to developmental shifts in the quality of the parent - adolescent relationship, midrange adolescents reported a significantly poorer relationship with their mother than older adolescents.

Family stress predicts poorer dietary quality in children: Examining the role of the parent - child relationship.

(Note that although having parents who are unmarried is a «current» predictor of a poor father - child relationship, there is no information collected at the GUS age 10 interview on the current quality of the partner relationship.

Parents who felt their couple relationship was of a poorer quality were not as involved with their children and used harsher discipline while mothers who felt their relationship was of a better quality had children with better cognitive abilities and less behavioural problems (Jones, 2010).

Where there was a different informant (the child's parent) for two outcome measures (behavioural and emotional difficulties, poor school adjustment), the finding of an association with father - child relationship quality appears stronger.

Summary We are learning much more about the biological impact of poor parenting and the need for interventions that are crafted to improve the quality of parent — child relationships in many settings.

Conflict itself is not a sign of poor relationship quality, because it will unquestionably arise in healthy relationships as parents exert appropriate levels of behavioural control over their adolescents, negotiating increasing responsibility as competence develops (69).

Many theoretical accounts have proposed that a low SES contributes to delinquency, either through economic deprivation (e.g., [7]-RRB-, poor neighbor quality (e.g., [10]-RRB-, or a lack of positive parenting (e.g., [17]-RRB-.

While the aforementioned body of work indicates that children with high CU traits experience more negative parenting and poorer quality parent — child relationships, what is less understood, however, are the specific ways in which parents socialize such children about emotions.

Recent research conducted in mainland China found that obesity prevalence was higher among children in wealthier families, 4 but the patterns were different in Hong Kong with higher rates of childhood obesity among lower income families.4 5 Hong Kong, despite having a per capita gross domestic product of Hong Kong dollar (HK$) 273 550, has large income differences between rich and poor as reflected by a high Gini coefficient of 0.539 reported in 2016; approximately 20 % of the population are living in poverty as defined by a monthly household income below half of the Hong Kong median.6 It is widely accepted that population health tend to be worse in societies with greater income inequalities, and hence low - income families in these societies are particularly at risk of health problems.7 In our previous study, children from Hong Kong Chinese low - income families experienced poorer health and more behavioural problems than other children in the population at similar age.8 Adults from these families also reported poorer health - related quality of life (HRQOL), 9 with 6.1 % of the parents having a known history of mental illness and 18.2 % of them reporting elevated level of stress.

As the most stigmatized group due to their lack of biological ties, adoptive families would be expected to show lower well - being and poorer relationship quality than would the other family structure groups, and two parent biological families would be expected to look the most well adjusted.

While father absence has been associated with a host of negative children's outcomes, including increased risk of dropping out of school and lower educational attainment, poorer physical and mental health, and behavioural problems,36 - 40 higher levels of involvement by nonresident fathers may assuage the negative effects of father absence on children's outcomes.41, 42 Quality of the parents» relationship before divorce, or of the pre-divorce father / child relationship, can also be an important factor: children fare worse following divorce when pre-divorce relationships were good and fare better when pre-divorce relationships were poor, 43,44 suggesting children are sometimes better off without a father if the father's relationship to the child or the mother was not good.

However, studies investigating the association between quality of parenting and prospective change in CU traits in preschool samples have found that multiple domains of parenting (positive parenting, parental involvement, and poor monitoring / supervision) uniquely predicted changes in CU traits [47], and that high CU traits at ages 3 — 4 were predicted by parent harshness [57].

According to resource models, lower income is associated with poorer health outcomes because of increased psychological stress, which may result in lower quality parenting (Conger, Conger, Matthews, & Elder, 1999).

Recent studies, based on self - reported assessments of coparenting, have reported significant links between both parents» depressive symptoms, negative coparenting, and negative temperament (Solmeyer and Feinberg, 2011) or poor sleep quality in the child (McDaniel and Teti, 2012).

In contrast with fertility, the relationship between women's neuroticism and child quality seems to be less context - specific: Neuroticism in women predicts poorer child condition both in the studied population and in modern settings where high neuroticism has been associated with inadequate parenting practices and the creation of a stressful family environment (37).