For over five decades, teen parent programs (TPPs) have offered mothers an opportunity to increase their self-sufficiency and invest in their children's development. Yet to date, no systematic review has examined overall effects of these programs on parenting behaviors or child developmental outcomes. Using a meta-analytic database of 25 studies,…

Youth who experienced abuse may have significant differences from non-abused youth in social and academic development. Often research including abused adolescents focuses on youth in foster care, which limits the ability to generalize findings outside the foster care population. The current study compared social development and educational…

This study examined the nature of Head Start mothers' warm, autonomy supportive, consistent, and harsh parenting practices. The measure of interest was the Child Rearing Practices Scale (Block, 1965). Results show that this measure can be used among Head Start mothers, but that a two-factor solution might be most appropriate. In general, mothers…