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Direct linkHaskell, Sarah; Pace, Heidi – ZERO TO THREE, 2019
Infant and toddler specialists working in Aotearoa (New Zealand) face an ethically complex question when the government requests an assessment of children from indigenous Maori culture. In this article, the authors explore the question: "Is it ethical to undertake parenting assessments and act as expert witnesses in cases which may result in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ethics, Pacific Islanders, Child Rearing
Ferrer-Wreder, Laura; Adamson, Lena; Kumpfer, Karol L.; Eichas, Kyle – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2012
Background: Effectiveness research is maturing as a field within intervention and prevention science. Effectiveness research involves the implementation and evaluation of the effectiveness of the dissemination of evidence-based interventions in everyday circumstances (i.e., type 2 translational research). Effectiveness research is characterized by…
Descriptors: Evidence, Family Problems, Intervention, Effective Schools Research
Peer reviewedGalloway, David; Barrett, Colleen – Educational Review, 1984
Information from nine New Zealand secondary schools about suspension for disruptive behavior in 1980 and 1981 showed that boys and girls were suspended with similar frequency, though for different reasons. Further study showed that suspended pupils were in poor health, came from multiply disadvantaged families, and had serious reading problems.…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Disadvantaged, Family Problems, Health Conditions
Peer reviewedFergusson, David M.; And Others – Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1990
In a study of 1,000 New Zealand children from birth to 10 years, risks of family breakdown were found to vary inversely to the number of preschool children in the family. These results persisted when many fixed and time-dependent variates were controlled, suggesting that the presence of preschool children reduces risks of family breakdown.…
Descriptors: Correlation, Divorce, Family Problems, Family Size
Peer reviewedBeautrais, A. L.; And Others – Pediatrics, 1982
The relationship between family life or stress events and rates of maternal reports of child behavior and child-rearing problems was studied in a birth cohort of 1,265 New Zealand preschool-aged children. Journal Availability: See EC 152 486. (Author/SEW)
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Child Rearing, Family Characteristics, Family Problems
Peer reviewedRodriguez, Christina M.; Green, Andrea J. – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 1997
Measures of parenting stress and anger expression were examined for their ability to jointly predict child abuse potential in two samples (total N=123) of New Zealand parents. The study found a strong joint contribution of scores on the Parenting Stress Index and the State-Trait Anger Expression Inventory in predicting results of the Child Abuse…
Descriptors: Anger, At Risk Persons, Child Abuse, Emotional Response
Peer reviewedFergusson, D. M.; And Others – Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1985
Studied the family history of preschool children (N=1,067). By 6 years, 16 percent of children born to two-parent families experienced a family breakdown. Findings suggest that, once children left the traditional two-parent family, there was a strong possibility they would be exposed to both marriage formation and breakdown. (BH)
Descriptors: Cohort Analysis, Divorce, Family History, Family Problems
Peer reviewedRyburn, Murray – Early Child Development and Care, 1993
Examines New Zealand legislation that allows families greater decision-making power when the safety and welfare of their children are seen to be at risk. Discusses the Family Group Conference intervention model and its efficacy, concerns and criticisms that this model has evoked, and the model's potential applicability to child care and protection…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Child Welfare, Decision Making, Family Environment
Institute of Family Studies, Melbourne (Australia). – 1984
Family life is the focus of this sixth volume in a series containing the proceedings of the 1983 Australian Family Research Conference. The papers are organized under two major sections: Children and Families and Family Environments. Papers and authors included are: "Family Conflict and Child Competence" (Gay Ochiltree and Paul Amato),…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Rearing, Children, Comparative Analysis
