While the recent Coalition government committed to some initiatives supporting the role of parents, relationships and the early years, there remains a lack of focus on fathers as a distinct policy area. This is reflected at local government level, as lead professionals for young fathers are rare and data on the number of young fathers in each local area are not routinely collected. Barnardo's w...

Citation: Karaaslan, O. (2016). Comparison of social engagement of children having disabilities with their mothers and fathers. Educational Sciences: Theory & Practice, 16, 1649–1670. 1 Correspondence to: Ozcan Karaaslan (PhD), Department of Special Education, Atatürk Faculty of Education, Marmara University, Kadıköy, İstanbul 34722 Turkey. Email: [email protected] Abstract This study examined ...

As researchers, we attempt to better understand the mechanisms and processes of parental involvement in children’s education since it is often negatively associated with child academic outcomes. China provides an interesting context in which to investigate this issue knowing that Chinese parents are extremely invested in their children’s education and are heavily involved at home. This study ex...

Dedication For my family, with love— My parents who stressed the importance of education; My husband who instilled the need for education in our sons and, as fathers, our sons who continue to emphasize the value of education with our grandchildren.

Nonresident African American (AA) fathers sometimes face challenges to achieving satisfaction with their parenting skills, which may inhibit their motivations for parenting. Studies have found that residential history of fathers is associated with parental involvement; however, current fatherhood programs rarely consider the influence of different residential history on fathering. In the curren...

OBJECTIVE To investigate levels and correlates of posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) in mothers and fathers of children and youth with cancer. METHODS Mothers (n = 191) and fathers (n = 95), representing 195 families of children and youth with cancer, completed measures of PTSS (Impact of Event Scale-Revised), depression (Beck Depression Inventory-II), and anxiety (Beck Anxiety Inventory) b...

the present study aims to describe the rate of premarital skills among daughters of martyrs and veterans in mazandaran province, as well as to identify the impact of parents’ marital skills on their girls’ skills. the universe of the study is all of single, older than 15 years old girls whose fathers were martyr or veteran. 366 young girls have been selected as a sample of the study via two-ste...

This retrospective study evaluated 41 cases of child deaths child deaths of both sexes from family violence and autopsied at Mansoura Morgue of Forensic Medicine Institute from 1996 to 2005. According to their ages, children were divided into four groups as follow: <3 years; 3-6 years; 6-9 years and 9-12 years. Some socio-demographic parameters concerning the perpetrators were investigated such...

BACKGROUND Parents with less formal education are more likely to smoke indoors, causing socioeconomic disparity in children's exposure to second-hand smoke. However, little is known about the roles of social factors in the socioeconomic gradients of indoor smoking. We tested the potential mediating role of perceived smoking norms on the associations between education and indoor smoking among pa...