BACKGROUND Obesity may cluster in families due to shared physical and social environments. PURPOSE This study aims to identify family typologies of obesity risk based on family environments. METHODS Using 2007-2008 data from 706 parent/youth dyads in Minnesota, we applied latent profile analysis and general linear models to evaluate associations between family typologies and body mass index...

OBJECTIVE Youth with Type 1 diabetes (T1D) from single-parent families have poorer glycemic control; a finding confounded with socioeconomic status (SES). Family density (FD), or youth:adult ratio, may better characterize family risk status. METHODS Structural equation modeling assessed the relation of single-parent status, SES, and FD to parenting stress, diabetes-related conflict, parental ...

This study examined whether attendance and quality of participation in parent management training predicted treatment response. Data were from 445 parents (55% minority, 62% single; almost all of low socioeconomic status) who had 1st-grade children with severe conduct problems. Quality of participation in weekly parent groups was based on group leader ratings. Parent outcomes were based on inte...

This paper addresses the question of whether offspring living in one-parent families at age seventeen obtain less education than offspring living in two-parent families. Four hypotheses for parent absence effects are tested: the "no effects" hypothesis, the "economic deprivation" hypothesis, the "absent father" hypothesis, and the "family stress" hypothesis. Separate analyses are presented for ...

Parent-of-origin effects are important in studying genetic traits. More than 1% of all mammalian genes are believed to show parent-of-origin effects. Some statistical methods may be ineffective or fail to detect linkage or association for a gene with parent-of-origin effects. Based on case-parents trios, the parental-asymmetry test (PAT) is simple and powerful in detecting parent-of-origin effe...

The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the impact of different family factors on juvenile delinquency. Specifically, this thesis examined parental monitoring, attachment to parents, and family structure by investigating their single and combined effects on delinquency. In addition, the current study addresses the effects family factors have on different levels of delinquent behavior. ...

This paper presents the current knowledge on ridership scenarios for autonomous vehicles and shuttles within context of children’s mobility. Perspectives from parents, caregivers, schools provide a unique use case that needs further attention vehicle manufacturers policy regulatory agencies. Social benefits barriers to adoption, willingness, acceptance as well hypothetical are discussed family ...

Most studies of the association between family structure and risky sexual behaviour among adolescents and young adults have employed a risk perspective which assumes that, compared with other types, two-parent families are protective. Drawing from a positive-oriented approach in this study, it is hypothesized that within each family type some influential factors may mitigate such anticipated de...