BACKGROUND With more liberal visiting hours in paediatric intensive care practice, parents' presence at the bedside has increased. Parents may thus become involved in critical incidents as contributors or detectors of critical incidents or they may be affected by critical incidents. METHODS Voluntary, anonymous, non-punitive critical incident reporting system. Parents' involvement in critical...

Teachers and administrators in schools with large, working-class Latino populations often complain of parents’ indifference or lack of involvement in children’s schooling because of their low visibility at school events and relatively little face-to-face communication with teachers and school administration. In a series of semi-structured interviews with Latino immigrant parents, this study fin...

A. Booth et al. (eds.), Early Adulthood in a Family Context, National Symposium on Family Issues 2, DOI 10.1007/978-1-4614-1436-0_5, © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012 Abstract Relationships between young adults and their parents have received considerable media attention in recent years. However, research on relationships between young adult children and their parents during the trans...

BACKGROUND In light of evidence showing reduced criminal recidivism and cost savings, adult drug treatment courts have grown in popularity. However, the potential spillover benefits to family members are understudied. OBJECTIVES To examine: (1) the overlap between parents who were convicted of a substance-related offense and their children's involvement with child protective services (CPS); a...

In the study reported on here, we analysed parents’ involvement in their children’s primary education 4 schools rural Malawi, focusing home and school. Through interviews focus-group discussions, information was obtained from 19 parents, 24 teachers (6 each school), head teachers. Bronfenbrenner’s ecological systems theory used to design interpret data, mainly micro- mesosystem elements. The sc...

This study is a correlational research that aims to define the relationship between parental involvement, expectations and elementary school students’ academic success. The was conducted in …… province defining sample of study, it aimed ensure diversity socioeconomic level sociocultural status. Totally, 420 parents have voluntarily participated after purpose explained them. data gathered with S...

The present study examined the role of maternal gatekeeping behavior in relation to fathers' relative involvement and competence in child care in 97 families with infant children. Parents' beliefs about fathers' roles were assessed prior to their infant's birth. Parents' perceptions of maternal gatekeeping behavior (encouragement and criticism) and coparenting relationship quality were assessed...

The involvement of parents in Zimbabwean schools is governed by Statutory Instrument 87 of 1992 (SI87) for non-government schools and Statutory Instrument 379 of 1998 (SI379) (Bowora and Mpofu, 1998) for government schools. Non-government schools are run by School Development Committees (SDCs) and government schools are run by School Development Associations (SDAs). It is argued that comprehens...

BACKGROUND The burden of geriatric diseases has a significant impact upon the socio-cultural, socioeconomic and administration of health services. The study was carried out to identify a burden of geriatric conditions, magnitude of disease problems and involvements of body systems in the parents of medical doctors from Lahore. METHODS After taking the consent, interview based active disease s...

This study examined parent characteristics and barriers to participation in a community-based preventive intervention with a sample of 201 parents from low-income and predominantly ethnic minority backgrounds. Person-centered analyses revealed five subgroups of parents who demonstrated variability in their parent characteristics, which included psychological resources and level of parental invo...