This study examines the link between divorced nonresident fathers' proximity and children's long-run outcomes, using high-quality data from Norwegian population registers. We follow (from birth to young adulthood) each of 15,992 children born into married households in Norway in the years 1975-1979 whose parents divorced during his or her childhood. We observe the proximity of the child to his ...

INTRODUCTION Few studies have investigated links between child abuse and neglect and diabetes mellitus in nationally representative samples, and none have explored the role of obesity in the relationship. We sought to determine whether child abuse and neglect were associated with diabetes and if so, whether obesity mediated this relationship in a population-representative sample of young adults...

objectives: profound hearing loss encounters children with delay in speech and language. as it is known language acquisition in young deaf children is a lengthy process, but cochlear implanted children have better spoken language skills than if they had not received the device. according to the importance of cochlear implant in deaf child's language development, this study evaluates the ef...

this is a longitudinal case study of two farsi-speaking children learning english: ‘bernard’ and ‘melissa’, who were 7;4 and 8;4 at the start of data collection. the research deals with the initial state and further development in the child second language (l2) acquisition of syntax regarding the presence or absence of copula as a functional category, as well as the role and degree of l1 influe...

ings. Few studies have sought information on young men’s attitudes about parenting and sexual behavior.5 While previous research has shown that young men living in areas with substandard social and economic resources are more likely than those from more advantaged backgrounds to say that they have fathered a child or that their partner has been pregnant,6 there are also young men in low-income ...

Building on research examining "boomerang" adult children, I examine multigenerational living among young parents. Returning home likely differs between young mothers and fathers given variation in socioeconomic characteristics, health and risk-taking, their own children's coresidence, and union stability. Using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 (NLSY97), I find that more than 40% ...

http://fnp.nhs.uk/ The Family Nurse Partnerships (FNPs) is a preventive, intensive home visiting programme for vulnerable, first time young mothers, aged nineteen or under where a specially trained family nurse visits the young mother regularly, from early pregnancy until the child is aged two. The service also supports young fathers via the mothers. Based on international evidence, the FNP pro...

Young children (birth through 5 years of age) are disproportionately represented in U.S. military families with a deployed parent. Because of their developmental capacity to deal with prolonged separation, young children can be especially vulnerable to stressors of parental deployment. Despite the resiliency of many military families, this type of separation can constitute a developmental crisi...

This project arose out of concern among key child and youth wellbeing researchers, ARACY and the AIHW, about the paucity of nationally and internationally comparable data concerning social and emotional wellbeing of young Australians. Using funding provided in part to ARACY by the Fred P Archer Trust and to the AIHW by the Australian Government Department of Families, Housing, Community Service...

BACKGROUND Interpersonal violence amongst youth is on the rise world-wide and London is no exception. The resulting injuries can be very serious and even result in death. This is a difficult to engage subgroup of patients and there is likely to be significant unmet social and mental health needs. AIM The current paper discusses the results of immediate psychiatric and social assessment of you...