Prospective study examines consequences of marital disruption for children's behavior problems and academic achievement. Results show no statistically significant effects of marital disruption on girls' behavior problems or reading achievement. Negative effects of family disruption on boys' behavior problems are not reduced when prior family…

Used data from National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to model developmental trajectories across middle childhood. Found that individual trajectories were extremely diverse in level and sometimes in slope. Compared to girls, boys had heterogeneous slopes for math and behavior problems. Compared to boys, girls showed a significantly higher degree of…

Data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth were used to examine factors related to the achievement and adjustment of 378 African American children in the early elementary grades. Consistent with past research, there was a positive relationship between the number of risk factors children were exposed to and the probability that they were…

Examined afterschool care for 390 third through fifth graders who were part of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Children in the care of single mothers after school had higher ratings for antisocial behaviors, anxiety, and peer conflicts. However, indications of these problems disappeared when analyses controlled for family income and…