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Lack of social support tied to parental depression
Sep 28, 2009 |
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The latest research from Family Relations shows that parents in low-income environments are more prone to depression when there is a lack of social support. This is especially prevalent in rural regions, where mental health ...
Parents of Children With Disabilities Face More Daily Stress
Feb 17, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Raising a child with a disability can cause more daily stress and long-range health problems than parenting a child without disabilities, according to a new study that looked at a clinical measure of stress ...
Is divorce bad for the parents?
May 11, 2008 |
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The elderly are cared for by their adult children regardless of their marital status. In a unique study funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, researchers found British adult children help their elderly parents ...
Parents are the unsung heroes
Nov 26, 2008 |
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It's a parents worst nightmare, a newborn baby going under the knife to repair a heart defect. If the baby survives, that's when the real work begins for parents. University of Alberta nursing professor Gwen Rempel has seen ...
How Parents Can Play a Role in a Child Injury
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 29, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- When a teenager suffers a sports-related injury, many times their agony is more mental than physical.
Sick Children Affect Parents' Mental Health
Jul 17, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Caring for a child with health problems profoundly affects the physical health, mental health and work attendance of parents, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Wisconsin ...
New study: Overbearing parents foster obsessive children
Sep 18, 2008 |
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A new study has found that parental control directly influences whether a child will develop a harmonious or obsessive passion for their favorite hobby. Conducted by Professor Geneviève Mageau, of the Université de Montréal's ...
Delinquent acts less likely for youths from religious-centered, two-parent homes
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jun 25, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A committed two-adult household with strong religious values may reduce the likelihood that youths will commit acts such as assault, vandalism and theft throughout adolescence and into early adulthood, says ...
As Kids go to College, Empty Nest Syndrome for Parents Not so Bad After All
Aug 12, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- It's that time of year when parents are buying college supplies and textbooks, while their children are packing their bags and preparing to leave the 'nest' for the first time.
More support needed for families adopting from foster care
May 14, 2009 |
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A new University of Illinois study of families adopting from foster care revealed significant declines in professional services and social support over the first three years of adoptive family life, even though parents indicated ...
Study shows parents back junk-food ban in schools
Sep 28, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The issues surrounding children being overweight or obese plague society. In fact, the prevalence of these rates has tripled in the past three decades. But the University of Alberta's Paul ...
Are kids today truly more autonomous?
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Aug 04, 2009 |
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Rutherford's analysis of back issues of the popular US magazine, Parents, maps how the portrayal of parental authority and children's autonomy has changed over the last century. Her findings are published online in Springer's ...
Stereotypes can fuel teen misbehavior
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 21, 2009 |
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Drinking. Drugs. Caving into peer pressure. When parents expect their teenagers to conform to negative stereotypes, those teens are in fact more likely to do so, according to new research by Christy Buchanan, ...
Tragic choices: Is it better for doctors or patient families to decide?
Apr 20, 2009 |
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In the medical realm, people sometimes need to make very difficult choices, such as deciding to end life-support for a terminally ill patient. A new study in the Journal of Consumer Research delves into the question of whe ...
The effect of parental education on the heritability of children's reading disability
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 22, 2008 |
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Parental education is a strong predictor of socioeconomic status and children's educational environment. Nevertheless, some children continue to experience reading failure in spite of high parental education and support for ...
