Sentences with phrase «socioeconomic status families»

In Switzerland, where we conducted the study, most fathers in middle to high socioeconomic status families work full time — or close to full time — whereas the mothers at 3 months postpartum are mostly still on maternity leave, which may explain why a father's depressive state is less closely related to family functioning than is that of the mother in the first months, especially in cases of a mild or moderate depressive state, as we were able to measure in the present low - risk sample.

Parents» beliefs about the cause of parenting problems and relevance of parenting support: Understanding low participation of ethnic minority and low socioeconomic status families in the Netherlands

In addition to these initiatives, the Head Start program, which was created in 1965 and is one of the earliest ECE initiatives, is a federal program that provides free access to early childhood education programs for children from low socioeconomic status families.

The effects of bullying were fairly similar for both Black and White men, as well as those participants who came from low socioeconomic status families.

Not exact matches

The goal of the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy is to ensure that every child, regardless of socioeconomic status, has access to educational opportunities to teach them reading and writing.

There are a few reasons why these legalistic approaches to gender roles are unnecessary impositions on Christian families and those seeking to participate in the life of the Church and why, without diminishing the importance and value of homemaking or childcare, we should not «shut the door to the kingdom» to families based on their socioeconomic status, unique callings and gifts, household structure, or earning arrangements.

We don't all come with the same set of circumstances or family history or socioeconomic status or anatomy.

To strive for equity in delivering a transformative, healing, and empowering experience to those communities that recognizes and embraces our differences in race, religion, ability, nationality, sexual orientation, gender expression and identity, family structure, cancer stage or type, or socioeconomic status.

Limitations of the study included low response rate for control families, higher socioeconomic status in participants vs. nonparticipants, possible residual confounding despite multivariate analysis, and possible recall bias because of retrospective design.

Gay fathers tend to be economically well - off, one means by which their children may garner social advantages relative to other children, while additional research has shown that children of gay fathers did not report differences in sex - typed behaviour compared with parents of other family configurations.58 A large literature shows that parents tend to transmit values to their children along socioeconomic status lines, with middle class parents typically imparting different values from parents in lower socioeconomic strata.59, 60 However, little of this work has examined fathers in particular, as distinct from mothers.

Models were developed using the following possible predictors of breastfeeding duration: maternal race, maternal education, paternal education, maternal age, socioeconomic status, 22 marital status, parity, mode of delivery, previous breastfeeding experience, timing of feeding method selection, problems with pregnancy / labor / delivery, breastfeeding goal (weeks), family preference for breastfeeding, paternal preference for breastfeeding, having friends who breastfed, randomization group, 16 plans to return to work, infant's 5 - minute Apgar score, and infant's age in minutes when first breastfed (first successful latch and feeding).

It's vital to provide an avenue for families of ALL socioeconomic statuses to gain information and find resources for each stage of the parenting journey.

This is consistent with other studies demonstrating a link between breastfeeding and maternal sensitivity.25, 26,27 For example, in a longitudinal study of more than 1300 families in the USA, mothers who breast fed were observed to be more sensitive to their babies at 6, 15, 24 and 36 months.27 Importantly, this difference persisted after statistical control for the effects of maternal mental health, the quality of the home environment in terms of infant health and stimulation and socioeconomic status.

The results of this study support the hypothesis that, for full - term children, breast - feeding allows better development of stereoacuity than does formula feeding, independent of the family's socioeconomic status and the maternal diet in pregnancy.

There are some people (no matter their race) who will commit crimes regardless of their Socioeconomic status, their access to quality education, or their family structure.

Research indicates that children from families of low socioeconomic status (SES) have fallen more than six months behind their more advantaged cohorts in language processing and proficiency skills by the time they are two years old.

Children in families and communities with low socioeconomic status had a higher risk of developing the disease.

The team also assessed the «nurture» aspect of altruism, looking at the relationship between family socioeconomic status (SES) and the sharing of prize tokens.

The study's finding that emotions influenced achievement held constant even after taking into account the effects of other variables, including students» intelligence and gender, and families» socioeconomic status.

The study also included data on various individual characteristics (e.g. extraversion and hostility in childhood; physical health in childhood and adulthood) and family and environmental factors (e.g., socioeconomic status in childhood, social integration in adulthood).

According to the senior author Ken Smith, Ph.D., a population health researcher at Huntsman Cancer Institute and a distinguished professor of family studies and population science at the University of Utah, «This study shows that early - life socioeconomic status, based on factors such as parental occupation at birth, may be associated with cancer risk in adulthood.

They measured total socioeconomic adversity by weighing factors such as average parental education, family economic hardship, family make - up and employment status.

• Both reading and math skills were closely correlated with the socioeconomic status of the child's family: The higher the family's status, the better the child's scores in both areas.

Children of higher socioeconomic status show a similar brain response to adults, whereas children from lower - income families generally show a much reduced response or none at all, Neville says.

Children from families of low socioeconomic status generally score lower than more affluent kids on standardized tests of intelligence, language, spatial reasoning, and math, says Priti Shah, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin who was not involved in the study.

Pregnant women who had low socioeconomic status during childhood and who have poor family social support appear to prematurely age on a cellular level, potentially raising the risk for complications, a new study has found.

They found that women who reported low socioeconomic status as kids and who struggled with family support as adults were biologically older, as indicated by shorter telomeres.

Writing in the journal Neurobiology of Aging, a research team, led by senior author William S. Kremen, PhD, professor of psychiatry and co-director of the Center for Behavior Genetics of Aging at UC San Diego School of Medicine, found that major adverse events in life, such as divorce, separation, miscarriage or death of a family member or friend, can measurably accelerate aging in the brains of older men, even when controlling for such factors as cardiovascular risk, alcohol consumption, ethnicity and socioeconomic status, which are all associated with aging risk.

In California, both NME and pertussis clusters were associated with factors characteristic of high socioeconomic status such as lower population density; lower average family size; lower percentage of racial or ethnic minorities; higher percentage of high school, college, or graduate school graduates; higher median household income; and lower percentage of families in poverty.

Socioeconomic status Studies have shown that the lower the household income, the more likely the family members are to become overweight or obese.

«The fact the cohorts used to determine this study's conclusions (BMJ published meta analysis) failed to consider incredibly relevant diabetes confounders like family history of diabetes, socioeconomic status, and dietary consumption patterns, including the dietary consumption of other categories of refined grains, makes quantifying the effect on diabetes development due to white rice consumption from this data set impossible.

Additional covariate information about age, smoking habit, socioeconomic status, family history of diabetes and stroke, menopausal status, medical history, and current use of medications was obtained with the use of pretested questionnaires.

First, we adjusted for age (in y), cigarette smoking (yes or no), physical activity (continuous), current estrogen use (yes or no), menopausal status (yes or no), socioeconomic status (categorical), family history of diabetes and stroke (yes or no), and systolic and diastolic blood pressures (continuous).

Cardiovascular disease is certainly multifactorial in nature, and while we can't alter patients» genetics, family history, or socioeconomic status, we can certainly educate them about the importance of a diet and lifestyle that supports a healthy gut and heart.

Some, like family history, age, gender, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status, are non-modifiable risk factors.

They come from different socioeconomic backgrounds, however, with Florence's family representing the upper middle class that looks down on people of Edward's more humble status.

She quotes psychologist Daniel Goleman: «This ability [to focus] is more important than IQ or the socioeconomic status of the family you grew up in for determining career success, financial success, and health.»

It is to say, rather, that there's long been a clear connection between families» socioeconomic status and students» academic achievement.

This significant increase in residential sorting by income among families with school - age children would have likely led to far greater disparities in school resources by community socioeconomic status had SFRs not been an effective leveling tool.

The author adds, «School practices to encourage parents to participate in their children's education are more important than family characteristics like parental education, family size, marital status, socioeconomic level, or student grade level in determining whether parents get involved.»

[8] While individual - level models controlling only for race and gender showed blacks more likely to be identified, adding a family socioeconomic status variable eliminated the effect of race for blacks, while Hispanics and Asians were significantly less likely to be in special education.

In effect, he devotes this book to affirming James Coleman's 1966 finding that school differences have far less impact on achievement differences than do family characteristics, the mightiest of which, Rothstein says, is socioeconomic status.

After taking into account differences in socioeconomic status, we found that parents of higher - achieving students are more likely to make a request, which perhaps reflects greater sophistication or interest on the part of these families.

Thus the socioeconomic makeup of the school does not appear to affect whether parents make a request, although the socioeconomic status of the family does.

Because the administrative files provide only a very coarse measure of family socioeconomic status — eligibility for the federal free or reduced - price lunch program — we constructed an additional proxy for family income by matching each student's residential address to U.S. Census data on the median household income in the student's neighborhood.

On the other hand, within a school, a family's own socioeconomic status is uncorrelated with the type of teacher a parent requests.

The study led Hill, an expert on variations in parenting and family socialization practices across ethnic, socioeconomic status, and neighborhood contexts, to hypothesize that college - educated and noncollege - educated parents must interact with their children's education in qualitatively different ways.

Think of two students with identical GPAs, SATs, and family socioeconomic status (SES).

A recent study of IQ concludes that environment is more important than heredity for the IQs of children from low - socioeconomic - status families.

The effects of attending a high - poverty school are not simply the aggregate effects of out - of - school poverty, either; the schools themselves disadvantage those who attend, regardless of their families» socioeconomic status.