This research explored the influence of family structure on midlife parents' attitudes toward the economic support of adult children and measured change in those attitudes as their oldest child moved from adolescence to young adulthood. Results suggest that family structure has long-term effects on parents' attitudes toward financial obligations…

This study analyzes structural forces affecting state patterns of parental presence within grandparent-grandchild coresidence by testing demographic, social change, policy environment, and social problems models. The project combines published state-level data with the 1970, 1980, and 1990 Census Public Use Microdata Samples. While factors…

Reviews research and outlines patterns of support among in-laws. Examines parental aid to married children and indirectly to their spouses, help directed specifically toward children-in-law, in-law support in later life, and effects of marital dissolution on in-law support. Includes discussion of how various demographic factors may affect nature…

The financial information of noncustodial parents filed by 46 Notre Dame University (IN) freshmen was analyzed to determine the impact of including the noncustodial parent in the student's financial need analysis. Results suggest that the potential additional parental contribution for this population is significant but that additional problems…

A study explored the interactional effects of parental marital disruption and physical abuse on risk for adolescent psychopathology in 99 community-based adolescents who had been physically abused and 99 controls. Interactional effects of marital disruption and abuse were found for risk for lifetime Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.…

Presents a follow-up of 27 single-parent families, focusing on children's behavior and parents' satisfaction with their children. Results showed parental satisfaction had increased for mothers, while fathers' satisfaction remained high. Children's behavior had improved in mother-headed families, especially low-income mother-headed families, often…

Examined two contrasting views of how parental marital status relates to long-term adjustment of children. Results of analyses on white adolescents (n=917) from intact, divorced, and blended families failed to support physical wholeness position; rather, results supported psychological wholeness position. Adolescents' adjustment was related to…

Tested relationships between negative and positive sibling interactions and relationship quality and family form. When husband-wife, mother-child, and father-child relationship quality were controlled, marital status was not significantly related to sibling interactions. When parental marital status was controlled, quality of spousal relationship…

Examines familial and extrafamilial factors associated with adolescent well-being in intact, blended, and divorced single-parent families. Findings indicate that divorced and blended families have some of the same forms of resiliency as intact families. For adolescents in a divorced single-parent family, peer support moderated the effect of low…

Evaluated program to improve parental satisfaction of divorced or separated fathers, helping to maintain fathers' involvement with children and make child support payments. Findings from 15 fathers in workshop series of 6 weekly parent education sessions and 15 in control group showed significant improvement of workshop participants, in contrast…

This revised edition offers an interdisciplinary analysis of the developmental, clinical, and social aspects of mental health from birth to age 3. Chapters are organized into five areas, covering the context of mental health, risk and protective factors, assessment, psychopathology, intervention, and applications of infant mental health. The…

Examined the genetic and environmental contributions to the predictive association between parenting and adolescent adjustment in identical and fraternal twins, and full, half, and genetically unrelated siblings in nondivorced and stepfamilies. Found that cross-lagged associations between parental conflict-negativity and adolescent antisocial…

This book emphasizes the importance of collaboration between the school and the home/parents in enhancing the possibilities for students' success. Twenty-four individual chapters by 45 contributors include: (1) "Family Systems and the School" (William Doherty and Vida Peskay); (2) "Home-School Collaboration: Effects, Issues, and Opportunities"…

This study investigated experiences and needs concerning (supporting) children's school career among parents in divorced lone-parent and stepfamilies. Forty custodial parents from a variety of divorced family situations responded to an in-depth interview. The interview data were analysed using qualitative methods. The results show a variety of…

Examined the adjustment of boys from intact, single-mother, stepfather, and multiple-transition families. Boys who had experienced multiple transitions showed the poorest adjustment. The antisocial mother was most at risk for transitions and unskilled parenting practices, which in turn placed her son at risk for poor adjustment. (BC)