Brief report: fathering a child living with HIV/AIDS: psychosocial adjustment and parenting stress.

Child Psychosocial Adjustment and Parenting in Families Affected by Maternal HIV/AIDS

Brief report: parenting stress and quality of life during treatment for childhood leukemia predicts child and parent adjustment after treatment ends.

Evaluated relationships between parenting stress and parent-rated child quality of life during treatment for childhood leukemia and later parental posttraumatic stress symptoms and parent and child anxiety after completion of cancer treatment in 29 families of patients with leukemia. Correlations among in-treatment and off-treatment variables showed strong patterns of association between parent...

Positive parenting for positive parents: HIV/AIDS, poverty, caregiver depression, child behavior, and parenting in South Africa.

Families affected by HIV/AIDS in the developing world experience higher risks of psychosocial problems than nonaffected families. Positive parenting behavior may buffer against the negative impact of child AIDS-orphanhood and caregiver AIDS-sickness on child well-being. Although there is substantial literature regarding the predictors of parenting behavior in Western populations, there is insuf...

Running head: FATHERING PRECURSORS OF SOCIOEMOTIONAL ADJUSTMENT 1 Early Fathering Predictors of Children’s Late School-Age Peer Acceptance, Emotion Regulation, and Behavior Problems

Parenting characteristics have profound effects on children’s early development. Adverse parenting places young children at risk for poor self-regulation, as well as for mood and behavior problems (Duncombe, Havighurst, Holland, & Frankling, 2012). On the other hand, positive mothering has been associated with well-developed self-regulation (Yagmurlu & Altan, 2010). However, the role of father’...

Parenting and psychosocial development of IVF children: a follow-up study.

BACKGROUND This report details a follow-up study of the parent-child relationship and the child's psychosocial development after IVF. The pilot study compared 31 IVF families and 31 families with a naturally conceived child when the children were aged 2 years. Twenty-seven IVF and 23 control families participated again when the children were aged 8-9 years. METHODS Fathers and mothers complet...