The Stanford Center for the Study of Poverty has an interesting article on their website titled “Building a Foundation for Prosperity on the Science of Early Childhood Development, by Jack Shonkoff, M.D.
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Air Force leaders are concerned about the well-being of airmen's families, but are the programs set up for their benefit doing enough? To find out the answers to this and other issues, the Air Force asked RAND to survey the spouses of active-duty airmen. The main concerns related to children, finances, employment, and the effects of moves and deployment. By and large, however, the families were satisfied with Air Force life.
Summarizes research on Talking Parents, Healthy Teens, a worksite-based parenting program designed by RAND and University of California at Los Angeles researchers that improves communication between parents and their adolescents on sexual health.
Child Trends analyzed data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health). Results of our analyses indicate that young adult relationships are fairly diverse; that these relationships have both positive and negative dimensions; and that partner and relationship characteristics and patterns of contraceptive use vary considerably by relationship type, gender, and race/ethnicity.
