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Children with Disabilities in the Context of Disaster: A Social Vulnerability Perspective
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Peek, Lori; Stough, Laura M. – Child Development, 2010
An estimated 200 million children worldwide experience various forms of disability. This critical review extrapolates from existing literature in 2 distinct areas of scholarship: one on individuals with disabilities in disaster, and the other on children in disaster. The extant literature suggests that various factors may contribute to the…
Descriptors: Poverty, Caregivers, Social Networks, Disabilities
Autonomy, Control, and Other Reasons Why "Mom Is the Greatest": A Content Analysis of Children's Mother's Day Letters.
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Weisz, John R. – Child Development, 1980
Letters from 249 children, 7 to 17 years of age, on "Why my Mom is the greatest" were analyzed for age and sex differences in the maternal behaviors selected for positive evaluation. (Author/MP)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Attitudes, Children
Patterns of Change in Children's Social Reasoning: A Two-Year Longitudinal Study.
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Damon, William – Child Development, 1980
Thirty-four boys and girls between the ages of four and nine were interviewed on their conceptions of positive justice and parental authority and were then reinterviewed one and two years later. Results suggested that stagelike development in children's social reasoning proceeds gradually, with important continuities in children's social cognition…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Change, Children, Developmental Stages
Child Development and Personal Social Networks.
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Cochran, Moncrieff M.; Brassard, Jane Anthony – Child Development, 1979
Constructs a model for understanding possible relationships between parents' personal social networks and their children's development. (JMB)
Descriptors: Child Development, Children, Interpersonal Relationship, Models
Fathers' Participation in Family Work and Children's Sex-Role Attitudes.
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Baruch, Grace K.; Barnett, Rosalind C. – Child Development, 1986
Examines the relation between fathers' participation in family work (child care and home chores) and children's sex role attitudes in an interview study of 160 Caucasian middle-class families. (HOD)
Descriptors: Attitudes, Children, Employed Parents, Fathers
Socialization of Achievement Attitudes and Beliefs: Parental Influences.
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Parsons, Jacquelynne Eccles; And Others – Child Development, 1982
To assess the impact of parents on children's achievement, self-concept, and related beliefs, extensive questionnaires measuring attitudes and beliefs regarding mathematics achievement were administered to children in grades 5 through 11 and their parents. The potential influence of parents both as role models and as expectancy socializers was…
Descriptors: Achievement Need, Adolescents, Children, Elementary Secondary Education
Unique and Protective Contributions of Parenting and Classroom Processes to the Adjustment of African American Children Living in Single-Parent Families.
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Brody, Gene H.; Dorsey, Shannon; Forehand, Rex; Armistead, Lisa – Child Development, 2002
Examined contributions parenting and classroom processes make to 7- to 15-year-olds' self-regulation and adjustment among single-parent Black families. Found that parenting and classroom processes contributed uniquely to children's adjustment through the development of self-regulation, and that each process could serve a protective or stabilizing…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescents, Blacks, Children
Fatherhood in the Twenty-First Century.
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Cabrera, Natasha J.; Tamis-LeMonda, Catherine S.; Bradley, Robert H.; Hofferth, Sandra; Lamb, Michael E. – Child Development, 2000
Discusses how social trends changed father involvement and family life, and in turn affected children's and fathers' developmental trajectories. Examines how today's children will construct expectations about fathers' and mothers' roles. Maintains that a life-span approach considers the broader sociohistorical context in which fatherhood develops.…
Descriptors: Child Development, Childhood Attitudes, Children, Context Effect