Using data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing study and the Current Population

The Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study At the Population Association of America 2012 Annual Meeting

As Fathers and Felons: Explaining the Immediate and Enduring Effects of Incarceration on Major Depression Kristin Turney, University of California, Irvine Christopher Wildeman, Yale University Jason Schnittker, University of Pennsylvania Dramatic increases in the American imprisonment rate since the mid-1970s have important implications for the life chances of marginal men, including for their ...

Multiracial infants and low birth weight: Evidence from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study Fragile Families Working Paper: 13-11-FF

Low-Income Mothers’ Material Hardship and Children’s Socioemotional WellBeing

and participants from the Fragile Families Working Group for helpful comments on earlier drafts of this paper. We are also thankful for helpful feedback we received at the Association of Public Policy and Management Fall 2010 Conference. 2 Abstract Research suggests that children from low-income families are more likely to exhibit behavioral problems than children from wealthier families and th...

Prevalence and Correlates of Stability and Change in Maternal Depression: Evidence from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study

Children of depressed mothers have impaired cognitive, behavioral, and health outcomes from infancy through adulthood, and are especially at risk when maternal depression persists over multiple years. But there are several important limitations to our current descriptive knowledge about maternal depression, especially depression among unmarried mothers. Data from the Fragile Families and Child ...

Exemplary Child Abuse from Parents' Perspectives: Qualitative content analysis

Introduction: The Children for various reasons are always among the most vulnerable in society. They do not have the ability to protect themselves and need to help of adults including their parents and in the case of parents incompetency, issue including child abuse will occur. Therefore the current research was conducted to study the parent's Perspectives from child abuse. Method: The present ...