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Stitt, Nichole M.; Brooks, Nancy J. – Schools: Studies in Education, 2014
Policy statements of the last two decades have directed schools to enter into partnerships with parents to enhance the social, emotional, and academic growth of their children. However, in practice and scholarship, parental involvement has been constructed as attendance to school-based activities and needs. This article draws on data from an…
Descriptors: Parents, Parent Participation, Case Studies, One Parent Family
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Montemayor, Raymond; Clayton, Mark D. – Theory into Practice, 1983
The relationship between maternal employment and adolescent development is enormously complex, and no simple generalizations are possible. Many intervening variables alter the impact that maternal employment has on adolescent development. There is an urgent need to discover what impact this arrangement has on adolescent development. (CJ)
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Employed Parents, Family Environment
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Cox, Martha J.; Cox, Roger D. – Journal of Research and Development in Education, 1979
Reported is a longitudinal study in which families with preschool children were observed, interviewed, and tested over two years following the parents' divorce and compared with a sample of intact families. Findings on the impact of divorce on individuals, on family interactions, and on children's social and intellectual development are presented.…
Descriptors: Divorce, Family Relationship, Intellectual Development, Longitudinal Studies
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Rutter, Michael – Child Development, 1979
Critically reviews research since 1972 on maternal deprivation. Topics discussed include: the development of social relationships and the process of bonding; critical periods of development; links between childhood experiences and parenting behavior; influences on parenting; and possible reasons why so many children do not succumb to deprivation…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Early Experience, Individual Differences, Intellectual Development
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Kontos, Susan J. – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 1991
Studied the relationship of family background and child care quality to preschoolers' cognitive, language, and social development. Concluded that family background variables were significant predictors of children's cognitive and language development, and that child care quality variables significantly predicted social adjustment and were a…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Day Care Centers, Educational Quality, Family Characteristics
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Bornstein, Marc H.; And Others – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1991
This study focused on French and U.S. mother-infant dyads interacting in their homes. Infants' visual attention, tactual exploration, vocalization and mothers' mediated and unmediated stimulation and speech to infants were observed. Mothers and infants in the two cultures showed some similarities and some different emphases in their activities,…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences, Infant Behavior
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Rosenfeld, Anne H. – 1978
Part of a series on early childhood demonstration programs designed to improve early parent-child relationships, stimulate positive child development, and prevent later behavior difficulties, the pamphlet describes the Mother-Child Home Program, in which low-income mothers are educated to become more effective developmental guides for their 2 to 4…
Descriptors: Child Development, Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged, Emotional Development