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The Home Environments of Children in the United States Part I: Variations by Age, Ethnicity, and Poverty Status.
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Bradley, Robert H.; Corwyn, Robert F.; McAdoo, Harriette Pipes; Coll, Cynthia Garcia – Child Development, 2001
Examined National Longitudinal Survey of Youth data on four versions of HOME-Short Form for four major ethnic groups. Found differences for majority of items between poor and non-poor families. Magnitude of effect for poverty was greater than for ethnicity. For every item at every age, effects of poverty were proportional across European American,…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Asian Americans, Blacks, Children
Day-Care Participation as a Protective Factor in the Cognitive Development of Low-Income Children.
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Caughy, Margaret O'Brien; And Others – Child Development, 1994
Examined the impact of day-care participation during the first 3 years of life on the cognitive functioning of 867 school age children who participated in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Found that children from impoverished homes who started day care before age one had higher reading scores than children from similar homes who did not…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Cognitive Development, Day Care
Young African-American Multigenerational Families in Poverty: Quality of Mothering and Grandmothering.
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Chase-Lansdale, P. Lindsay; And Others – Child Development, 1994
Examined the parenting practices in 99 young, low-income, African American multigenerational families through home-based observations of grandmothers, young mothers, and the mothers' 3-year-old children. Residence with grandmothers was found to have negative consequences on the quality of both mothers' and grandmothers' parenting. (MDM)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Black Mothers, Blacks, Child Rearing
Maternal Work and Child-Care Strategies in Peri-Urban Guatemala: Nutritional Effects.
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Engle, Patrice L. – Child Development, 1991
A study of 8 to 35 month olds found that informally employed mothers had more undernourished children than did formally employed or nonworking mothers. With maternal education controlled for, no effects of maternal employment on children's growth patterns were found. Percentage of family income earned by the mother was associated with children's…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Body Height, Body Weight, Day Care
Poverty Experiences of Young Children and the Quality of Their Home Environments.
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Garrett, Patricia; And Others – Child Development, 1994
Examined the relative contribution of maternal, household, child, and poverty characteristics to the quality of the home environment through an analysis of data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Improvements in family income had the strongest effect on the quality of home environment for children who had lived much of their lives in…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Early Childhood Education, Economic Factors
The Home Environments of Children in the United States Part II: Relations with Behavioral Development through Age Thirteen.
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Bradley, Robert H.; Corwyn, Robert F.; Burchinal, Margaret; McAdoo, Harriette Pipes; Coll, Cynthia Garcia – Child Development, 2001
Examined frequency with which children were exposed to various parental actions, materials, events, and conditions as part of their home environments, and how these exposures related to well-being. Found the most consistent relations between learning stimulation and children's developmental status, with relations for parental responsiveness and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Behavior Problems, Child Development