Foreword The growing interest and concern about Canada's urban areas has provoked a recent wave of research papers and policy conferences in and about our cities. CPRN has chosen to contribute to this lively discourse by playing an integrative role – linking research and policy communities across Canada, across jurisdictions, and across disciplines. The first paper in the CPRN series by Neil Br...

As editors, we are pleased to introduce this set of seven papers that form a special section devoted to the study of parental attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). The idea for this section grew out of discussions of the work being conducted in our own labs and others focused broadly on families of children with ADHD. Research in this area traces a developmental trajectory from early...

Relations between early child care and adolescent functioning at the end of high school (EOHS; M age = 18.3 years) were examined in a prospective longitudinal study of 1,214 children. Controlling for extensive measures of family background, early child care was associated with academic standing and behavioral adjustment at the EOHS. More experience in center-type care was linked to higher class...

We investigated the role of parents' and children's religiosity in behavioral adjustment among maltreated and nonmaltreated children. Data were collected on 170 maltreated and 159 nonmaltreated children from low-income families (mean age = 10 years). We performed dyadic data analyses to examine unique contributions of parents' and children's religiosity and their interaction to predicting child...

OBJECTIVE To examine the relation of parent stress to parent mental health and child mental and physical health. METHODS We interviewed children with type 1 diabetes (n = 132; mean age 12 years) annually for 5 years and had one parent complete a questionnaire at each assessment. Parents completed measures of general life stress, stress related to caring for a child with diabetes, benefit find...

tragedy and the discovery of teratogens, the legalization of abortion, and growing attention to the problems of women's alcoholism following the women's liberation movement. This volume amply lives up to its aim of exploring the intertwined relations between child health and society from the late nineteenth century to the present. It forms a significant contribution to the history of medicine a...

The article highlights the empirical study. In which refers to children with learning difficulties at school. The types of child parent relationship in their families. Shows the effect of violations of child-parent relationships aggravating abnormalities in the formation of the VPF, and as a consequence, difficulties in school. Inadequate family relationships as partial cause disharmony in the ...