Beyond Blame: Parents as Partners

Parents and young patients as partners in care.

Over time, we have added nearly 100 pediatric specialists in cardiology, gastroenterology, endocrinology, psychiatry, neurology, hematology/ oncology, rheumatology, ophthalmology, orthopedic surgery, pulmonology, rehabilitation and other specialties. In 2007, we opened a five-bed children’s emergency department, and in December 2010, the hospital earned the only Level II Pediatric Trauma Center...

Parents as Learning Partners in the development of technological

This paper presents research on parent support of the development of new media skills and technological fluency. Parents’ roles in their children’s learning were identified based on interviews with eight middle school students and their parents. All eight students were highly experienced with technology activities. Seven distinct parental roles that supported learning were identified and define...

Better Parents, More Stable Partners: Union Transitions among Cohabiting Parents

Fragile Families data (n = 1,702 couples) are employed to examine the association between mother and father reported parenting characteristics (father involvement and coparenting) and transitions out of cohabitation through marriage or separation in the five years after a child is born. Father involvement and coparenting may be signs of commitment and investment among couples without the legal ...

Children of Depressed Parents: Interparental Conflict, Self-blame, and Coping

Parents Without Partners: Drosophila as a Model for Understanding the Mechanisms and Evolution of Parthenogenesis

Of 40 Drosophila species screened to date, a majority have shown some ability to at least initiate parthenogenetic development. In one case, Drosophila mangebeirai, natural populations are entirely female, making it the only obligate parthenogenetic species of Drosophila Only a few of the species that exhibit the ability to undergo early embryonic development of unfertilized eggs successfully r...