Black and White middle-aged adults typically are in a pivot position of providing support to generations above and below. Racial differences in support to each generation in the family remain unclear, however. Different factors may account for racial differences in support of grown children versus aging parents. Middle-aged adults (aged 40-60 years; 35%, n =… Continue reading Support to Aging Parents and Grown Children in Black and White Families
Keyword: Children & Youth
Child Restraint Systems for Young Children during Motor Vehicle Collisions
By conditioning on the total number of deaths in the vehicle, each vehicle contributes a multinomial probability: (2) … which calculates the probability that each of the vehicle occupants has the j th outcome.3 As in conditional logistic regression, gi need no longer be estimated, and the behavior of the conditional likelihood estimates for b… Continue reading Child Restraint Systems for Young Children during Motor Vehicle Collisions
Effects of Sibship Structure Revisited: Evidence from Intrafamily Resource Transfer in Taiwan
Numerous studies have consistently found negative effects of sibship size on educational outcomes. Three main explanations of these effects have been offered in the literature: (1) the dilution of family resources, (2) a changing intellectual environment in the family for each succeeding sibling, and (3) unobserved selectivity at the family level. In this article, the… Continue reading Effects of Sibship Structure Revisited: Evidence from Intrafamily Resource Transfer in Taiwan
Tensions in the Parent and Adult Child Relationship: Links to Solidarity and Ambivalence
Tensions are normative in the parent and adult child relationship, but there is little research on the topics that cause the most tension or whether tensions are associated with overall relationship quality. In this study, adult sons and daughters, age 22 to 49, and their mothers and fathers (N = 158 families, 474 individuals) reported… Continue reading Tensions in the Parent and Adult Child Relationship: Links to Solidarity and Ambivalence
Long term outcomes to family caregiver empowerment
The Vanderbilt Caregiver Empowerment Project evaluated a training program designed to enhance empowerment of caregiver and their subsequent involvement in the mental health treatment of their children. The intervention utilized a multi-component parent training curriculum that was designed to enhance: (a) knowledge of the service system; (b) skills needed to interact with the mental health… Continue reading Long term outcomes to family caregiver empowerment