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The present study was performed to elucidate the effects of individual and social factors on smoking behavior of parents of fourth grade elementary school students in Japan.
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PMID: 21905610
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To examine indicators of health care access and utilization among children of working and nonworking single mothers in the United States, the authors used data on unmarried women participating in the 1997-2008 National Health Interview Survey who financially supported children under...
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PMID: 21319718
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Kinderkrankenschwester : Organ der Sektion Kinderkrankenpflege / Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Sozialpadiatrie und Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Kinderheilkunde (29)12 2010
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The aim of this study was to identify risk factors for failure to thrive (FTT) or weight faltering according to age of onset. The study is part of a Danish longitudinal population study of early risk mechanisms in child psychiatric disorders, The Copenhagen Child Cohort, which consists of a birth co...
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PMID: 20618727
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This study identified profiles of 13 risk factors across child, family, school, and neighborhood domains in a diverse sample of children in kindergarten from four US locations (n = 750; 45% minority). It then examined the relation of those early risk profiles to externalizing problems, school failur...
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PMID: 20423544
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Lakartidningen (107)24-25 2010
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Praxis der Kinderpsychologie und Kinderpsychiatrie: Ergebnisse aus Psychoanalyse, Psychologie und Familientherapie (59)4 2010
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Single parent families not only differ from traditional families regarding socioeconomic problems and missing a parent, but also concerning the duration of using youth welfare measures, psychological problems in single parents, and the way youth welfare measures are ended. Due to different basic par...
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PMID: 20491426
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Praxis der Kinderpsychologie und Kinderpsychiatrie: Ergebnisse aus Psychoanalyse, Psychologie und Familientherapie (59)8 2010
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The present contribution presents psychometric findings of a newly developed questionnaire on paternal engagement after parental separation based on a sample of 225 separated or divorced fathers living in the German part of Switzerland. Factor analyses led to the following five dimensions: education...
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PMID: 21140584
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Future of Children (20)2 2010
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Jane Waldfogel, Terry-Ann Craigie, and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn review recent studies that use data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (FFCWS) to examine why children who grow up in single-mother and cohabiting families fare worse than children born into married-couple households. They als...
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PMID: 20964133
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BMC Public Health (10)1 2010
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The qualitative data revealed mothers' perceptions of specific areas that improved by participating in the group. The utility of complementary information provided by qualitative and quantitative methods in understanding program impact, as well as the need for broader assistance is noted....
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PMID: 20047675
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Women & Health (49)6 2009
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Mothers' body satisfaction worsened from 1 to 9 months postpartum, and 9-month body dissatisfaction was associated with eating/appetite abnormalities, greater weight, worse mental health, non-black race, non-breastfeeding status, and fewer immediate family relationships. Given these relationships, i...
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PMID: 20013517
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We worked with a non-probabilistic sample of 140 women from Monterrey, N.L, Mexico, 107 are from bi-parent families and 33 from single parent families. Some of the results show that women from single-parent families have lower quality of life (Z = -2.224, p = .026), lower income (Z = -2.727, p = .00...
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PMID: 19476230
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Diabetes Care (32)5 2009
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Both diabetes-related and general stress are critical predictors of the adjustment of adolescents with type 1 diabetes. Protective factors such as self-worth and social support may mediate the effects of generic stress and thus should be encouraged. Diabetes-related stress has the potential to displ...
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PMID: 19196897
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Researchers have repeatedly found that intergenerational transmission of attachment is more robust in mother-child dyads than it is in father-child dyads. They have proposed several explanations for the inconsistent father-child findings, including the use of the strange situation procedure, the you...
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PMID: 19230519
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This study examined how the developmental processes of autonomy and relatedness are related to changes in the residential status of 181 first-time, adolescent, urban, low-income, African American mothers over the first 24 months postpartum. Although adolescent mothers were eager to live independentl...
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PMID: 19130358
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Praxis der Kinderpsychologie und Kinderpsychiatrie: Ergebnisse aus Psychoanalyse, Psychologie und Familientherapie (58)5 2009
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The service of freelance family midwives was field-tested in the project "outreach care for mothers and their children--network family midwives" in the years 2002-2006 in Lower Saxony in three municipalities. The data of 590 cared for women and their children were evaluated. The clientele, that has...
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PMID: 19621560
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This exploratory study examined single mothers' ideas on the development of a faith-based sexuality program. Twenty African American single mothers with adolescent children (11 to 13 years of age) who were of the same faith and members of one church, participated in two focus groups about how a fait...
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PMID: 20669399
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Romanian journal of morphology and embryology = Revue roumaine de morphologie et embryologie (50)4 2009
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Omphalocele and gastroschisis are recognized as congenital malformations with a high mortality. Only 60% of children with such malformations survive until the end of the first year of age. It has been suggested that omphalocele and gastroschisis are associated with other congenital malformations, co...
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PMID: 19942960
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Pediatric nursing (35)6 2009
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Acta Paediatrica (97)12 2008
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The population trends were towards improved sleep with increasing age. Individual sleep patterns show some stability. Reports of frequent night wakings and low sleep quality (LSQ) were strongly associated with each other within and between the age groups (odds ratio [OR] 2.8-60.2, p < 0.001). Percep...
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PMID: 18684166
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Results indicated that the STEPP program was effective in reducing problematic child behavior and improving parental stress and psychopathology at posttreatment. The STEPP program resulted in high rates of treatment attendance and completion and consumer satisfaction with the program. However, resul...
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PMID: 17934177
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Fertility and Sterility (90)3 2008
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We generally found that the impact of assisted conception on parenting and child development gives no undue cause for concern while the children are still young. However, the young age of the children in our sample prevented us from answering many questions about the children's socioemotional develo...
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PMID: 17919604
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Psychiatric Services (59)9 2008
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Caregivers with increased substance use fared poorly on measures of well-being and work. Policies that promote, rather than impede, reductions in substance use are more likely to promote self-sufficiency and well-being....
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PMID: 18757589
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Social Science Research (37)3 2008
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We address three issues. First, we provide more recent estimates of adult women's and men's poverty and the ratio of women's to men's poverty with two different poverty measures. We suggest that by incorporating the elderly, the feminization of poverty may be greater than previously estimated. The f...
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PMID: 19086119
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The findings suggest that the combination of gainful employment and children does not influence the risk of repeated sick-leave spells or long-term sickness absence among married/cohabiting publicly employed women. However, this was not true for single women with children, which indicates that their...
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PMID: 18775812
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Findings suggest that comprehensive coordination among social service systems is needed to address the complex problems of low-income Americans with substance-use disorders. Classifying applicants based on barriers and readiness is a promising approach to developing innovative welfare programs to se...
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PMID: 18612572
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This paper reports on the experiences and views of children and young people of single-parent families, as findings from a European Union-funded research project undertaken in England, Greece and Cyprus. The objectives of the research project were to investigate how children and young people of sing...
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PMID: 18429992
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The language impaired group had significantly poorer receptive vocabulary than the speech impaired and control groups throughout the 20-year period. Family income was a significant predictor of vocabulary growth when considered separately, but ceased to be a predictor when language impairment status...
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PMID: 18341544
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There is a dearth of studies examining the association between lone parenting and psychosocial functioning among children and adolescents with chronic illnesses. Specific questions necessitating future investigation are summarized and recommendations are made for future research in this important ar...
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PMID: 17906331
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Psychological Medicine (38)3 2008
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Lone mothers were twice as likely to have a CMD (OR 1.8, 95% CI 1.4-2.3) as other women. This was not significant after controlling for financial strain or social support. Lone fathers were nearly four times more likely to have a CMD than other men (OR 3.9, 95% CI 2.3-6.8), and this risk remained un...
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PMID: 17892621
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Racial and ethnic disparities in LBW among unmarried mothers--an economically disadvantaged population--do not mirror those in the general population. Prenatal health and behaviors are strongly associated with LBW in this group and explain a sizable portion of the Mexican-origin advantage. The lack...
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PMID: 17570044
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Results from this study contribute to our understanding of the infant health threats associated with maternal intimate partner violence experiences. Additional research addressing the complex relationship between maternal abuse experiences and infant health and specific intervention implications is...
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PMID: 17549615
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We expected that mother-child relationships following school entry would predict individual differences in evening cortisol, a context-sensitive marker for the response to concurrent demands. Among 28 children followed longitudinally, late in pre-kindergarten those living with single and/or employed...
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PMID: 18286585
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Sixty-two women (3.9%) were identified as single/unpartnered. Elevated EPDS scores (>12) were found in 15.2% (240/1578) of the total cohort and 25.8% (16/62) of the single/unpartnered women. EPDS scores were significantly lower for single/unpartnered women than for women with unsupportive partners (...
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PMID: 18058445
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The present study tested the effect of work-family conflict on emotions and the moderating effects of gender role orientation. On the basis of a multilevel design, the authors found that family-interfering-with- work was positively related to guilt, and gender role orientation interacted with both t...
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PMID: 18211146
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Adolescence (43)170 2008
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The purpose of this study was to examine similarities and differences in single mothers' and adolescents' perceptions of parenting competencies from a developmental assets approach. A multi-source (mothers [n = 29] and 10-14-year-old adolescent children [n = 29]), single-method (both generations com...
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PMID: 18689101
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Lakartidningen (105)7 2008
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Women & Health (47)1 2008
Comparison of users and non-users of mental health services among depressed women: a national study.
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Our findings signify a need for screening women at high risk of depression, especially those identified as more likely not to seek treatment....
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PMID: 18581690
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La Tunisie medicale (86)1 2008
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The mean age for mothers in the "IG" was 24.3 years. The mean of prenatal consultations was 0.5 in the "IG" vs. 5.2 in the "LG" (p < 0.001). Delivery by caesarean section was of 6.7% in the "IG" vs. 18.7% in the "LG" (p = 0.049). Prematurity was observed in 17% in the "IG" vs. 8% in "LG". IUGR was o...
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PMID: 19472692
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Praxis der Kinderpsychologie und Kinderpsychiatrie: Ergebnisse aus Psychoanalyse, Psychologie und Familientherapie (57)5 2008
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Marte Meo, that is a low-levelled outpatient form of councelling parents and other persons to whom children relate most closely in order to achieve educational competence and help them to assume responsibility for the developement of children. The article gives a short summary how this method has de...
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PMID: 18605437
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The ABNF journal : official journal of the Association of Black Nursing Faculty in Higher Education, Inc (19)3 2008
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We examined obesity rates for the period 1990-2003. We also used cross tabulation tables to compare obesity rates to several independent variables. Our analysis revealed that obesity was related to several health, demographic, and economic factors. As a result, we argue that policy makers as well as...
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PMID: 18717205
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The ABNF journal : official journal of the Association of Black Nursing Faculty in Higher Education, Inc (19)2 2008
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The author discusses the relationship between negative affectivity and the development of cardiovascular disease in single African American mothers.
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PMID: 18494404
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Diet, feeding and oral hygiene habits were shown to be the most significant factors that contributed to the development of ECC in these patients. All the children were either breast- or bottle-fed past one year of age. 93.6% of the children went to sleep with the bottle or while on the breast and 90...
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PMID: 18524278
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The Canadian journal of clinical pharmacology = Journal canadien de pharmacologie clinique (15)1 2008
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The meaning of father involvement among this group of women centered on four dimensions: emotional support, financial contributions to the family, amount and quality of time spent with the children and the family, and was dependent upon the particular expectations of the mother involved. Barriers an...
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PMID: 18245870
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Reproductive BioMedicine Online (17 Suppl 3) 2008
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This article presents the Catholic Christian tradition and teaching on the moral respect due to human life from conception, supported by natural law moral philosophical reasoning. This approach contrasts with the ethical views of secular philosophers on human embryo research for therapeutic purposes...
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PMID: 18983736
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Reproductive BioMedicine Online (17 Suppl 3) 2008
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In dealing with reproduction, the Church believes that every human being has a beginning but has no end; this is why conception constitutes an event of unique importance. The exact moment of the beginning of life is unknown to man, but the logic of sexual intercourse without reproduction and of repr...
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PMID: 18983734
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Nursing Research (57)5 2008
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Analyses indicated strong associations between child behavior and parenting stress (p < .001). There was a positive association between youth age and parenting stress. Single parents and parents in poor health reported significantly high levels of parenting stress; families with high levels of invol...
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PMID: 18794718
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Child Development (79)1 2008
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The current study examined whether parental and contextual risk factors contribute to mothers' and fathers' differential treatment (MDT/FDT) when accounting for sibling dyad characteristics. Also explored was whether family type (single mothers vs. 2 parents) moderated the links between the parental...
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PMID: 18269519
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AADE editors' journal (57)5 2008
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Analyses indicated strong associations between child behavior and parenting stress (p < .001). There was a positive association between youth age and parenting stress. Single parents and parents in poor health reported significantly high levels of parenting stress; families with high levels of invol...
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PMID: 18794718
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Social Science and Medicine (65)12 2007
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The deep recession in Sweden in the early 1990s led to high unemployment levels. In addition, policy changes and reductions in welfare benefits increased costs of living. These changes may have affected lone mothers to a greater extent than other groups. How have these changes in the social context...
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PMID: 17764795
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Social Science and Medicine (65)12 2007
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We focused on three well-established family risks for conduct problems: family type, income and family size. Three community samples of adolescents from England, Scotland and Wales were compared: 10,348 16-year olds assessed in 1974 as part of the National Child Development Study, 7234 16-year olds...
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PMID: 17881107
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We recently found that when depressed mothers reached full remission over 3 months of treatment, a significant improvement in the children's disorders occurred. Since only a third of the mothers remitted, factors related to maternal remission rates, and thereby child outcomes, were important. This r...
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PMID: 17934684
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24.4 % of the interviewed women in the East admitted a delay of the last birth compared to 21.2 % of those in the West. There are clear differences concerning the reasons for this delay between the old (west) and the new (east) federal states. 34 % of the east German women agreed that an insecure in...
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PMID: 18176904
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Preventive Medicine (45)6 2007
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At the follow-up survey, 26.6% of mothers reported that they were current smokers and 13.6% reported that they had symptoms of a major depressive episode during the prior 12 months. After adjusting for sociodemographic characteristics, the prevalence (95% confidence interval) of a major depressive e...
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PMID: 17698183
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Journal of Adolescence (30)6 2007
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This paper investigates how the learning environments and family dynamics differ if households have a child with a disability or a parent with a disability. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997, results indicate that children with disabilities experience similar learning en...
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PMID: 17445879
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Single mothers are at increased risk of psychosocial disadvantage, social isolation and physical and mental health difficulties. The authors present (1) the results of group cohesion assessments completed by mothers participating in a trial of community-based support/education groups, and (2) assess...
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PMID: 18194034
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