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Early and Concurrent Home Stimulation: Unique and Indirect Links with Fine Motor Skills among 4-Year-Old Children in Rural Pakistan
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Armstrong-Carter, Emma; Sulik, Michael J.; Siyal, Saima; Yousafzai, Aisha K.; Obradovic, Jelena – Developmental Psychology, 2021
Fine motor skills enable children to make precise and coordinated movements with their hands and support their ability to engage in everyday activities and learning experiences. In a longitudinal study of 1,058 4-year-old children in rural Pakistan (n = 488 girls), we examined how prior and concurrent levels of home stimulation relate to change in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Psychomotor Skills, Rural Areas, Family Environment
Early and Concurrent Home Stimulation: Unique and Indirect Links with Fine Motor Skills among 4-Year-Old Children in Rural Pakistan
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Armstrong-Carter, Emma; Sulik, Michael J.; Siyal, Saima; Yousafzai, Aisha K.; Obradovic, Jelena – Grantee Submission, 2021
Fine motor skills enable children to make precise and coordinated movements with their hands and support their ability to engage in everyday activities and learning experiences. In a longitudinal study of 1,058 4-year-old children in rural Pakistan (n = 488 girls), we examined how prior and concurrent levels of home stimulation relate to change in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Psychomotor Skills, Rural Areas, Family Environment
Associations between Father Absence and Age of First Sexual Intercourse
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Mendle, Jane; Harden, K. Paige; Turkheimer, Eric; Van Hulle, Carol A.; D'Onofrio, Brian M.; Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne; Rodgers, Joseph L.; Emery, Robert E.; Lahey, Benjamin B. – Child Development, 2009
Children raised without a biological father in the household have earlier average ages of first sexual intercourse than children raised in father-present households. Competing theoretical perspectives have attributed this either to effects of father absence on socialization and physical maturation or to nonrandom selection of children predisposed…
Descriptors: Fatherless Family, Family Structure, Sexuality, Fathers