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Arslan, Adem – African Educational Research Journal, 2021
Family is the foundation stone of society. Education is very important for the health of the family and therefore society. A value-oriented family education program is designed to support families. The aim of this research is to determine the basic education needs of families for a value-oriented family education program. The study group of the…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Family Programs, Family Attitudes, Values Education
McCormick, Meghan; Sarfo, Bright; Brennan, Emily – Administration for Children & Families, 2021
Over 5 million American children under the age of 18 years, a disproportionate number of whom are Black or Latino, have had a residential parent jailed or incarcerated. While a number of existing studies identify parental incarceration as a key risk factor for poor child and family outcomes, there is more limited information describing programs…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions, Hispanic Americans
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Nawalana, Anna; Kózka, Maria; Majda, Anna – International Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 2020
Objectives: Care efficiency of family can be determined by many factors such as mental and physical health status of family members and their socioeconomic situation. Raising children with disabilities is a burdening and stressful situation for their caregivers. This article examines determinants of care efficiency in a group of Polish parents…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Developmental Disabilities, Stress Variables, Socioeconomic Status
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Barbosa-Ducharne, Maria; Marinho, Sylvie – Research on Social Work Practice, 2019
Purpose: The main goals were to determine the incidence of preadoption breakdown in Portugal, describe preadoptive parents' reasons for ending placement, compare intact/disrupted placements, and identify adoption disruption risk and protective factors. Method: A matched design involving a case file analysis of 71 disrupted and 71 intact…
Descriptors: Adoption, Risk, Placement, Child Behavior
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Kleefman, Marijke; Reijneveld, Sijmen A.; Jansen, Daniëlle E. M. C. – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2015
Background: Raising children with borderline to mild intellectual disability (BMID) and psychosocial problems may yield a strong need for support among parents, but evidence for this is lacking. The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of need for parenting support in this population, and the child and parent characteristics that…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Mild Intellectual Disability, Incidence, Parent Child Relationship
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Appel, Markus; Holtz, Peter; Stiglbauer, Barbara; Batinic, Bernad – Journal of Adolescence, 2012
The authors examined the influence of parent-adolescent communication quality, as perceived by the adolescents, on the link between adolescents' Internet use and loneliness, controlling for perceived family support in general terms. Adolescents (N = 216, M[subscript age] = 15.80 years) provided data on Internet use, loneliness, Internet-related…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Adolescents, Parent Child Relationship, Internet
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Brophy-Herb, Holly E.; Stansbury, Kathy; Bocknek, Erika; Horodynski, Mildred A. – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2012
This study tested the validity of an emotion-related parenting construct, indicated by six key emotion-related socialization behaviors (ERSBs) occurring in daily, developmentally salient parenting in a low-income sample of mothers (N=123) of toddlers, and examined the relationship between the ERSB construct and toddlers' self-regulation.…
Descriptors: Socialization, Income, Delay of Gratification, Structural Equation Models
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Wood, Robert G.; McConnell, Sheena; Moore, Quinn; Clarkwest, Andrew; Hsueh, JoAnn – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2012
This article examines the impacts of Building Strong Families, a healthy marriage and relationship skills education program serving unmarried parents who were expecting or had recently had a baby. Based on a random assignment research design, the analysis uses survey data from more than 4,700 couples across eight research sites to estimate program…
Descriptors: Marriage, Program Effectiveness, Family Relationship, Marital Satisfaction
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McGaw, Sue; Scully, Tamara; Pritchard, Colin – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 2010
Objectives: This study set out to identify risk factors affecting parents with intellectual disabilities (IDs) by determining: (i) whether perception of family support differs between parents with IDs, referring professionals, and a specialist parenting service; (ii) whether multivariate familial and demographic factors differentiates "high-risk"…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Mental Retardation, Family Programs, Child Rearing
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Schwartz, Seth J.; Mason, Craig A.; Pantin, Hilda; Szapocznik, Jose – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2009
The present study was designed to investigate trajectories of identity development and their relationship to family functioning in a sample of Hispanic adolescents and their primary caregivers. Two hundred fifty adolescents completed measures of identity coherence and confusion and of family functioning, and parents completed measures of family…
Descriptors: Caregivers, Adolescents, Identification (Psychology), Correlation
Greenman, Jim – 2001
In response to the September 11th, 2001 terrorists attacks, "Comfort for Kids" was formed as a collaborative effort to provide support and resources to children and families directly affected. This facilitator's guide and student's guide represent one part of the three-pronged approach of the "Comfort for Kids" program. The…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adult Child Relationship, Age Differences, Anger
Human Resources Development Canada, 2003
When Canadian parents look back on their own lives and the lives of their parents, they see changes across a generation that have profoundly affected their parenting experience, compared to when they themselves were young children. Supports for today's parents must take into consideration these changes that affect the care and nurturing of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Family Environment, Age Differences, Young Children