OBJECTIVE To assess the cost-effectiveness of two alternate forms of Family Connections (FC), a child neglect prevention program, in relation to changes in risk and protective factors and improvements in child safety and behavioral outcomes. METHODS In the original FC study, a sample of 154 families (473 children) in a poor, urban neighborhood, who met risk criteria for child neglect, were ra...

When child sexual abuse is suspected, a child sexual abuse-related medical examination is recommended to ensure the child's well-being. While the extant research has sought to identify factors influencing child distress during this examination, only recently have studies began examining variables that may be directly associated with the child or with the medical setting. Knowledge of the child ...

The fi rst phase of the Community Child Care Research Project consisted of gathering information about the child care contexts of four Indiana communities: Marion, Lake, Allen, and St. Joseph counties. To provide an initial picture of these four communities in relation to child care, we examined existing community data and child care indicators available for the communities, conducted qualitati...

This research examines whether parents' intimate partner physical violence (IPV) relates to their preschoolers' explicit memory functioning, whether children's symptoms of hyperarousal mediate this relation, and whether mothers' positive parenting moderates this relation. Participants were 69 mothers and their 4- or 5-year-old child (34 girls). Mothers completed measures of IPV, children's hype...

The issue of parent-child relationships in adolescence is rarely researched. period a crisis stage active restructuring the internal behaviors person and transformation external environments, including social situation development, when loneliness phenomenon acquires special significance. A both faces age-specific task forming intimacy finds resource state being alone with oneself. When studyin...

Child Work and Schooling Costs in Rural Northern India It is widely held that work by children obstructs schooling, so that working children in impoverished families will find it difficult to escape poverty. If children’s school attendance and work were highly substitutable activities, it would be advisable to quell work in the interest of schooling and, if less child work were desirable for it...