Family matters

Family Matters

As primary agents of socialization, families and schools can powerfully shape the academic adaptation of youth. Using data from the Social Identification and Academic Adaptation studies, we compare the family and school environments of Latino high school seniors living in a new destination, North Carolina, with those living in an established destination, Los Angeles. We then evaluate how family...

Willingness to Compete: Family Matters

This paper studies the role of family background in explaining differences in the willingness to compete. By combining data from a lab experiment conducted with a representative sample of adolescents in Norway and high quality register data on family background, we show that family background is fundamental in two important ways. First, boys from low socioeconomic status families are less willi...

"Family matters:" fetal alcohol spectrum disorders and the family.

Information about "family matters" is vital to developing targeted interventions, reducing placement disruption, and enhancing outcome in fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD). The quality of the caregiving environment and family function are associated with long-term outcome in natural history study of individuals with FASD. This article integrates multiple information sources to better unde...

Introducing Family Matters in CFP: Examinations.

CFPC—College of Family Physicians of Canada For several years, the Section of Residents newsletter, Family Matters, was independently distributed through the Council of the Section of Residents. Now Canadian Family Physician will host a Family Matters series here in the Residents’ Views section of the journal. The mission of articles in the Family Matters series is 2-fold: • to inform resident ...

Age Matters: Class, Family Formation, and Inequality