The combination of investigating child and family characteristics sheds light on the constellation of risk factors that can ultimately lead to dyslexia. This family-risk study examines plausible preschool risk factors and their specificity. Participants (N = 196, 42 % girls) included familial risk (FR) children with and without dyslexia in Grade 3 and controls. First, we found impairments in ph...

This paper analyzes the strategies employed by households in rural China to allocate educational expenditure to children of dierent endowment, examining whether parents use educational funding to reinforce or compensate for variation in endowment. Employing climatic shocks as an instrument for children's endowment yields results indicating that parental expenditure is preferentially directed to...

Ethnic school segregation exists. In The Netherlands, in other countries of Europe and in other parts of the world. It seems that it is partly caused by the freedom of parents to choose a school for their children. The result is a growing segregation between children with different cultural backgrounds. Proof is found for a white flight in The Netherlands, Denmark and the United Kingdom [1]. Co...

Much of the evolutionary literature on human mating is based on the assumption of extensive female choice during the history of our species. However, ethnographic evidence from foraging societies reveals that, in societies thought to be akin to those of our ancestors, female choice is constrained by the control that parents exercise over their daughters. Data from 190 hunting and gathering soci...

The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child has criticised Australia (and many other countries) in State Reports released in 1997, 2005 and, most recently, 2011, for not introducing a ban on corporal punishment by parents of their children in line with Article 19 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (‘CROC’). In light of this criticism, and the clear recommendation to ban parental co...

0191-8869/$ see front matter 2011 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.paid.2011.10.033 ⇑ Corresponding author. E-mail address: [email protected] (C Many studies have examined factors that influence discriminative parental solicitude. Sex, birth order, and age of the mother are a few factors demonstrated to influence levels of parental investment (especially as measured by offspring self-r...

National context may influence sex segregation of household tasks through both pragmatic decision making and the normative context in which decision making is embedded. This study utilizes 36 time use surveys from 19 countries (spanning 1965-2003) combined with original national-level data in multilevel models to examine household task segregation. Analyses reveal that men do less and women do ...

The current study examines whether associations exist between household chaos and children's early reading skills, after controlling for a comprehensive battery of home literacy environment characteristics. Our sample included 455 kindergarten and First-grade children who are enrolled in the Western Reserve Reading Project. We go on to test whether these associations are moderated by maternal r...

Recent formulations of socialization emphasize a previously neglected facet of parent-child interaction—the effects of child attributes on parent behavior. Empirically, however, little has been done to clarify which attributes of children systematically affect parental behavior and how they affect them. This study examines the relationship between children's activity level and independently ass...