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Peer reviewedMott, Frank L. – Journal of Family Issues, 1994
Used data from National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to examine extent to which presence or absence of biological fathers from home was associated with gender difference in presence or absence of children and gender differences in home environment encountered by children. Results for black children were less systematic than those for white…
Descriptors: Children, Daughters, Divorce, Family Environment
Prinz, Ronald J.; And Others – 1983
Although the events associated with divorce can have negative effects on children who are involved, child maladjustment is not the inevitable consequence of divorce. To investigate the factors which may account for observed variation in children's response to divorce, 46 elementary school children (22 boys, 24 girls), residing with their mothers,…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Children, Divorce, Elementary Education
Download full textVan den Daele, Leland D. – 1969
This summary on studies on preschool intervention through social learning indicate that a child's mode of orientation and his general level of competence and maturity are, in large part, derived from his social environment. To the extent that specific aspects of that environment can be identified as significant antecedents to behavioral…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged, Emotional Development, Enrichment Activities
Rubin, Roger Harvey – 1976
This report explores the notion that a relationship exists between a matricentric lower class black society, (in this case defined as a society with adult male absence and the development of self attitudes among children, particularly boys. The major hypothesis is that black boys from homes lacking adult male figures would have significantly more…
Descriptors: Black Attitudes, Black Youth, Blacks, Childhood Attitudes
Booth, Margaret Zoller – 1999
In rural Swaziland, fathers often migrate for work, leaving wives and children behind. The family is denied the presence of a husband, father, and role model, as well as economic support, which fathers often fail to remit home regularly. A longitudinal study investigated the effects of parent availability and other home characteristics on the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Dropout Rate, Educational Attainment, Elementary Education
Pastor, Patricia N.; Reuben, Cynthia A. – 2002
This report presents national estimates of the prevalence of diagnosed attention deficit disorder (ADD) and/or learning disability (LD) in children in the United States. Differences in the prevalence of these conditions are examined for children with selected sociodemographic characteristics. Estimates in the report are based on data from the 1997…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Disorders, Elementary Education, Family Characteristics, Family Environment
