The current study examined two family process predictors of parent-reported child sleep problems at 4.5 years in an adoption sample: marital hostility and hostile parenting. Participants were 361 linked triads of birth parents, adoptive parents, and adopted children. We examined direct and indirect pathways from marital hostility to child sleep problems via hostile parenting. Mothers' marital h...

In this article, I discuss the peculiar ‘agencies' attributed to child/childhood under neoliberalism as a symptom of its crises and antagonisms, with focus also on practical struggles solidarities such analyses might promote/afford. Specifically, theme Special Issue aligns an approach have named ‘Child method', which geopolitical dynamics intersections performed resisted by practices around chi...

The study examined the effectiveness of a culturally-adapted Strengthening Families Program (SFP) for Latinos to reduce risks for alcohol and drug use in children. Latino families, predominantly Puerto Rican, with a 9-12 year old child and a parent(s) with a substance abuse problem participated in the study. Pre- and post-tests were conducted with each family. Parental stress, parent-child dysf...

The thesis studies infants in the child care environment with context being viewed seen as a major factor influencing growth and development. An exploration of the child care setting as a developmental niche (Super and Harkness, 1986; Valsiner, 1987; Cole, 1996) is therefore focus of this research. Everyday experiences of infants in long day care are examined through the language environment wh...

This study examines the hypothesis that aspects of social relations moderate the relationship between SES and health; that is, this association varies with differences along four major dimensions of social relations: instrumental, emotional, and negative support, and network structure. In 1992, 923 white and black respondents aged 40 and over were interviewed as part of the Survey of Social Rel...

To facilitate the use of syntactic information in the study of child language acquisition, a coding scheme for Grammatical Relations (GRs) in transcripts of parent-child dialogs has been proposed by Sagae, MacWhinney and Lavie (2004). We discuss the use of current NLP techniques to produce the GRs in this annotation scheme. By using a statistical parser (Charniak, 2000) and memorybased learning...