AIM In this experimental study, we made an attempt to explore the approach and method to improve the legal cognition and family legal education level for adolescent parents. METHODS 10 parents of students of grade two in a middle school of Chongqing in China were provided with group consulting and training. We adopted action research method to make overall assessment on the needs, execution a...

S. Noelle Barton The purpose of the current study was to investigate the relationship between parents’ education level and their child’s academic readiness. The following research question was examined: Is there a relationship between the level of parents’ education and their child’s academic readiness? In this study, Marshall University Graduate College (MUGC) and West Virginia University (WVU...

O lsson et al. (1) describe an association between high levels of education and an increased risk of autoimmune diabetes in adults. They propose “the hygiene hypothesis” as an explanation for their results indicating that childhood environment and a low prevalence of childhood infections might contribute to the evolution of autoimmune diabetes. We would like to draw the attention to an alternat...

Various studies focusing on the effectiveness of teacher-parents relationship emphasize the positive effects of parents’ involvement in education. This study aimed to examine the effects of teacher-parents relationship on Iranians EFL learners’ language proficiency at elementary level. It also aimed to find how this relationship may influence  parents’ motivation and attitude with regard to the...

Students with college educated parents are more likely to attain higher levels of education than students of parents with lower levels of education. Past research has explained this favorable outcome as the result of advantageous placement and greater availability of educational resources. Using data from Add Health and AHAA, we find evidence that exposure to students of college educated parent...

INTRODUCTION The family of each hearing-impaired child has its own cultural, social, educational, and financial background, and its own special needs. The objectives of our study were to explore the information and support needs of parents of children with severe-to-profound hearing impairment and to investigate the effects of the parents' level of education and economic status on the score att...

BACKGROUND Previous studies suggest that preschoolers from low socioeconomic backgrounds engage in more screen time. Still, the factors in the social and physical home environment driving these differences in preschool children's screen time are poorly understood. This study examines potential home environment mediators in the associations between parental educational level and preschoolers' sc...

OBJECTIVE The aim of the study was to assess the effect of environmental pollution and parental tobacco smoking on the occurrence of pseudocroup in children. MATERIAL AND METHODS A questionnaire-study was performed in 345 children with pseudocroup admitted to the ENT Dept between 1997-2007. 116 children had smoking and 229 had non-smoking parents. Both groups were compared with respect to env...

This paper investigates how parents’ locus of control beliefs affect investment in their children’s health, depending on parental education. Parents with an external locus of control attribute outcomes to external factors outside of personal control whereas internal parents attribute outcomes to personal actions. Because locus of control influences the perceived probability of investment return...