References Doyle, J. J. Child Protection and Child Outcomes: Measuring the Effects of Foster Care. The American Economic Review v. 97 no. 5 (December 2007) p. 1583-610 Hall, C., et. al., Interviewing parents of children in care: Perspectives, discourses and accountability [Part of Special issue: Biological Mothers of Children in Foster Care: New Directions for Theory, Research, and Practice].
This study contained two purposes. The primary purpose was to categorize family priorities for activity and participation in their children with CP. The second purpose was to identify differences between the children based on their age and gross motor function. The study performed involved over five hundred children battling with cerebral palsy and their caregivers in a cross-sectional analytic design. The children and youths involved in the study were between the ages of 2-21 and their caregivers, who were primarily the mothers, had a mean age of 40 years.
Question 1 Learning theory provides one explanation of attachment. It suggests that attachment will be between an infant and the person who feeds it. However, the findings of some research studies do not support this explanation. Outline research findings that challenge the learning theory of attachment. 4 marks Rudolph Schaffer and Peggy Emerson (1964) studied 60 babies at monthly intervals for the first 18 months of life (this is known as a longitudinal study).
• Include at least two references. • Format your paper to APA standards. PSY 375 Week 2 DQs 1 , 2 PSY 375 Week 3 Learning Team Assignment Middle Childhood and Adolescence Development Paper Learning Team Assignment Middle Childhood and Adolescence Development Paper • Prepare a 1,500- to 1,700-word paper in which you address adolescence and how this stage affects development. Include where appropriate the positive and/or negative consequences of developmental choices during this time period. • Address the following items: • Describe changes in peer relationships in middle childhood and adolescence.
In 2006, the proportion of mothers with newborns that were in the workforce was at 57% (“Working Parents”, 2012). That number increased to 61% in 2008 (“Working Parents”, 2012). There are many single working mothers who have not finished High School or received a GED. This leads to problems down the road. Thirty percent of teenage girls who have dropped out of school listed pregnancy or parenthood as the primary reason (“Teen Pregnancy Prevention”, n.d.).
Four Different Styles of Parenting Each parent develops a unique parenting style as they groom their children into adulthood. Various methods of parenting styles can affect a child in either a negative or positive way. In the 1960‘s, psychologist Diana Baumrind conducted a study on 100 preschool children. She observed them by naturalistic observation, parental interviews and other research methods (Cherry, 2011). By conducting this study she suggested that there were 3 different parenting styles.
In the last four decades, the fundamental structure of a family has made a spectacular change in the United States. There has been a significant increase in the number of children growing up in a single-parent family since 1960 (Jeynes 1). These children mainly belong to the group who are born outside of marriage or from the divorce of the parents. Many problems concerning the effects of theses changes towards the well-being of the children is evident. In the last 20 years, there have been many studies that were developed to analyze the changes in the patterns of family structure as well as how it affects the child/children.
ABSTRACT The study area was the Tolon/Kumbungu district in the Northern region of Ghana with the ultimate aim of the research being finding out the effect of maternal education and child feeding practices on nutritional status of children (0-48 months). Mothers were interviewed on their educational background and the feeding practices they adopt for their children as well as taking anthropometric measurements of these children. A total of 200 mothers and their children (0-48months) were sampled from 10 communities in the 5 sub-districts of the Tolon/Kumbungu district. Data collected using questionnaires were analyzed with SPSS and results presented in tables and figures. Our research findings showed that maternal education level in the district is low as 75% of mothers had never attended school.
The first article that I reviewed is titled Infant Developmental Outcomes: A Family Systems Perspective. Infant & Child Development. The main reason for this study is because the authors were interested in how “Parental mental health, parent-infant relationship, infant characteristics and couple’s relationship factors were associated with the infant’s development” (Parfitt, Pike, Ayers, 2014). To do this, the researchers gathered forty-two families and observed the infant at the ages of three months through the infant being video recorded, five months by giving the parents an in-depth clinical interview to evaluate their psyche and lastly at seventeen months they measured the infant’s cognitive language and motor development. To their surprise,
Despite these challenges, researchers have uncovered convincing links between parenting styles and the effects these styles have on children. During the early 1960s, psychologist Diana Baumrind conducted a study on more than 100 preschool-age children (Baumrind, 1967). Using naturalistic observation, parental interviews and other research methods, she identified four important dimensions of parenting: Disciplinary strategies, Warmth and nurturance, Communication styles and Expectations of maturity and control. Based on these dimensions, Baumrind suggested that the majority of parents display one of three different parenting styles (Maccoby & Martin, 1983) which I myself tried to analyze by observing parent-child relationship at a park. I was at The Prospect Park last week and was observing some parents and their children’s behavior and was really surprised to see a situation, of a 5-6 years old boy and his mother, which I am going to explain in details in this paper.