Using data from the National Survey of Midlife Development in the United States and using the stress process model, this study compared caregiving parents and caregiving adult children with regard to health outcomes. The study sample consisted of 74 caregiving parents and 219 caregiving adult children. Predictors included type of family relationship, provision of activities of daily living, dur...

Helping and cooperation are central to human social life. Here, we report two studies investigating these social behaviors in children with autism and children with developmental delay. In the first study, both groups of children helped the experimenter attain her goals. In the second study, both groups of children cooperated with an adult, but fewer children with autism performed the tasks suc...

By using infonnation on state of birth in the 1990 Census of the United States, the authors create a variable serving as a proxy for the distribution of adult children in 1985. This variable is then used in a two-level nested logit model to explain the 1985 90 interstate primary migration of elderly black people and elderly white people within the context of environmental amenities and other fa...

Relative clauses that children understand: NP type effects on child processing Inbal Arnon Relative clauses (RCs) have been studied extensively in language acquisition and adult processing. Studies show that both children and adults find object relatives harder than subject relatives [1, 2]. Despite the similar pattern, adult difficulty is taken to reflect the increased processing demands of ob...

BACKGROUND Many children experience significant distress before and after surgery. Previous studies indicate that healthcare providers' and parents' behaviors may influence children's outcomes. This study examines the influence of adults' behaviors on children's distress and coping in the postanesthesia care unit. METHODS Children aged 2-10 yr were videotaped during their postanesthesia care ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the performance of the Paediatric Index of Mortality (PIM) in children cared for in adult intensive care units (ICUs) in district general hospitals in the South West Region of England. DESIGN AND SETTING An observational survey of all children admitted to adult ICUs in 15 district general hospitals between November 2000 and August 2002. For comparison, data were also col...

INTRODUCTION To assess the socio-economic gradient in early smoking initiation at age 11 years and the extent to which any inequality was explained after accounting for longitudinal exposure to adult smoking. METHODS Analysis of the UK Millennium Cohort Study, based on 9, 609 children from ages 9 months to 11 years. The outcome was smoking initiation by age 11. Odds ratios (ORs) for smoking i...

BACKGROUND A substantial body of work has related survey-based parental vaccine hesitancy to noncompliant childhood immunization. However little attention has been paid to the connection between parents' own immunization behavior and the immunizations their children receive. METHODS Using the Oregon ALERT Immunization Information System, we identified adult caregiver-child pairs for children ...