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Egeland, Byron; Sroufe, L. Alan – Child Development, 1981
Attachment outcomes of 31 maltreatment cases (involving extreme neglect or abuse), selected from a total poverty sample of 267 high-risk mothers and their children, were compared to those of a subsample of 33 cases with a history of excellent care. Attachment was assessed when infants were 12 and 18 months old. (Author/MP)
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Child Abuse, Child Neglect, Comparative Analysis
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Fauber, Robert; And Others – Child Development, 1990
Results give considerable support to the hypothesis that most of the relation between marital conflict and adolescent adjustment problems can be explained by perturbations in the parent-child relationship. Results also suggest that mediational patterns are different for intact and divorced families, and that the model used best fits the context of…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescents, Comparative Analysis, Conflict
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Chan, Raymond W.; Raboy, Barbara; Patterson, Charlotte J. – Child Development, 1998
Examined relations among family structure, family process, and psychological adjustment of children who had been conceived via donor insemination. Found that the children were developing normally. Their adjustment was unrelated to structural variables such as parental sexual orientation. Parents with higher parenting stress and inter-parental…
Descriptors: Children, Comparative Analysis, Emotional Adjustment, Family Environment