PURPOSE This study was conducted to compare the paternal rearing behavior and rearing stress level between fathers with a preschooler and fathers with school children so that it can be utilized as a basic source for developing parental rearing education programs. METHODS A descriptive comparative method was conducted to identify the paternal rearing behavior and paternal rearing stress. Respo...

Research into the evolution of the, family structure is important in understanding the consequences of teenage motherhood. In this longitudinal study of black, urban mothers in Woodlawn, a Chicago community, we compare 15 years of family evolution of teenage and older mothers. Teenage mothers not only frequently begin child rearing as the only adult at home but also are at high risk of becoming...

CHILD CARE PRACTICES ANTECEDING THREE PATTERNS OF PRESCHOOL BEHAVIOR. STUDIED SYSTEMATICALLY CHILD-REARING PRACTICES ASSOCIATED WITH COMPETENCE IN THE PRESCHOOL CHILD. 2015 American Psychological Association PDF documents require Adobe Acrobat Reader.Effects of Authoritative Parental Control on Child Behavior, Child. Child care practices anteceding three patterns of preschool behavior. Genetic....

This article proposes two financing plans to address what the author identifies as the two primary concerns in the child care field: (1) a child allowance for poor and near-poor households to address the child care problems of low-income families, and (2) a program of voluntary parental leave, available to all parents at child birth or adoption, to ensure the adequacy of infant care. The child ...

Family and Gang as Agents of Socialization The family, conceived primarily as a child-rearing agency, and the gang, defined in some detail in the last chapter, were both prevalent forms of associational units in Midcity. It is important to repeat at this point that the term “family” as used in the present work refers to that kinship-based associational unit which bears primary responsibility fo...

The goal of this study is to address directly the predictive value of birth inputs and outputs, particularly birth weight, for measures of early childhood development in a simultaneous equations modelling framework. Strikingly, birth outputs have virtually no structural/causal effects on early childhood developmental outcomes, and only maternal smoking and drinking during pregnancy have some ef...

During human evolutionary history, there were "trade-offs" between expending time and energy on child-rearing and mating, so both men and women evolved conditional mating strategies guided by cues signaling the circumstances. Many short-term matings might be successful for some men; others might try to find and keep a single mate, investing their effort in rearing her offspring. Recent evidence...

purpose : the purpose of the present study was to investigate the assumptions that: 1) parents of obsessive compulsive patients rear their children in a perfectionistic manner and 2) these parents had perfectionistic traits. method: in this retrospective study, based on dsm-iv diagnostic criteria and psychiatric interview, three groups of obsessive compulsive patients, depressed patients and no...

OBJECTIVE This exploratory study investigated the co-occurrence of domestic violence and three types of child maltreatment: physical child abuse, psychological child abuse, and child neglect. METHOD A sample of 2544 at-risk mothers with first-born children participated in a home-visiting child abuse prevention program. A longitudinal design using multiple data collection methods investigated ...