The debate over whether sex education should be taught in schools is over. Today, most students learn about STDs, HIV/AIDS, birth control, and safe sex practices. But there is a missing piece in their sexual health education: how to prevent birth defects.
There is compelling evidence that service-learning is an effective strategy for improving academic learning. But how can teachers set up rewarding and meaningful community partnerships?
Frequent Residential Mobility and Young Children's Well-being
February 21, 2012
In this study, Child Trends examined a fairly select group - children younger than six who have experienced five or more moves (who we term "frequent movers").
You are invited to participate in the 60-minute web conference Secure Attachments: Building Caring Relationships with Parents and Children on Wednesday, February 29 at 2 p.m. EST.
Homelessness among families has increased considerably in recent years. Child Trends' latest brief, When the Bough Breaks: The Effects of Homelessness on Young Children, highlights the potential for homelessness to hinder child development.
The Raising Teens Project found significant areas of agreement among experts on the parenting of adolescents-in spite of the broad diversity of cultures represented in the United States and the myriad individual differences in parents and children. Its central findings-Ten Tasks of Adolescent Development and Five Basics of Parenting Adolescents-cut across a broad range of disciplinary and cultural perspectives.
Why are 20-somethings delaying adulthood? The media have flooded us with negative headlines about this generation, from their sense of entitlement to their immaturity. Drawing on almost a decade of cutting-edge research and nearly five hundred interviews with young people, Richard Settersten, Ph.D., and Barbara E. Ray shatter these stereotypes, revealing an unexpected truth: A slower path to adulthood is good for all of us.
Welcome to the fully updated 2012 edition of A Parents' Guide to Facebook! It's designed to help you understand what Facebook is and how to use it safely. With it, you will be better informed and able to communicate with young Facebook users in your life more effectively. That's important because 1) if something goes wrong, we want our children to come to us and 2) as the Internet becomes increasingly social and mobile, a parent's guidance and support are ever more key to young people's well-being in social media and technology. The guidebook is published in partnership with the iKeepSafe Coalition.
