Introduces the special issue on minority children and briefly discusses what it means to be a member of a minority group in the United States. (PCB)

Considers effects of culture, health status, socioeconomic status, family structure, and biological factors on minority infants' development. (PCB)

Presents a synthesis and overview of literature on identity development in the childhood and adolescence of young people in ethnic and minority groups in the United States. (PCB)

Reviews research on family processes that affect the socioemotional functioning of children in poor families and families in economic decline. (PCB)

Discusses a proposed interconnectedness between the ecologies of ethnic minority families, adaptive strategies, socialization goals, and child development outcomes. (PCB)

Addresses the influence of cultural and ecological backgrounds, as mediated by the family, on children's achievement. Contrasts models used to explain academic successes and failures of African-American and Asian-American children. (PCB)

Results from this study on mothers' conceptions of child development suggest a complex picture of diversity in Mexican-American mothers who retain values and beliefs from their own culture and take on values and beliefs of the American culture. (PCB)

Provides descriptive data on strategies obese Mexican-American mothers use in the socialization of their children's eating practices. (PCB)

Sociodemographic correlates of patterns of racial socialization were examined using data from a national probability sample of 2,107 respondents. Results indicated that gender, age, marital status, region, and racial composition of the neighborhood predicted whether Black parents imparted racial socialization messages to their children. (PCB)

Families in urban and rural settings were studied in an investigation of environmental influences on the development of Haitian-American infants. Birthweight and scores on the Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment predicted mental development. Psychomotor development was related to birthweight and household crowding. (PCB)

Sixty-four families with four kinds of family structure were interviewed in an effort to examine differences and similarities among and within Black families. Results suggest that different Black family structures are associated with different family climates. (PCB)

Investigated differences and similarities in child-rearing practices among three groups of parents. Chinese and immigrant Chinese parents rated higher than Caucasian-American parents on parental control, encouragement of independence, and emphasis on achievement. (PCB)

This study explored family structures in which grandmothers and grandchildren share residences; the degree to which grandmothers participated in parenting activities; and variability in grandmothers' parenting involvement resulting from their employment status and the family structure. (PCB)

Objectives of this study were to examine effects of text genre (narrative and expository) and format (familiar and traditional) on teaching strategies mothers used when interacting with their children during reading tasks; and the effectiveness of mothers' teaching strategies in eliciting children's participation in joint reading tasks. (PCB)

Examines the relation between stage of cognitive development, transfer ability, production ability in Standard English, and school achievement among a sample of high school students in rural Hawaii. There was a strong relation between transfer ability and school achievement. (PCB)