Philip and Carolyn Cowan are Professors Emeriti of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley
The Cowans will be reporting on more than a decade of intervention studies on parental relationships with young children, particularly in times of transition. Their recent studies contrast the impact of couples' groups and fathers' groups and how interventions encourage low income fathers to become and stay involved with their young children.
The Pew Internet & American Life Project is one of seven projects that make up the Pew Research Center, a nonpartisan, nonprofit "fact tank" that provides information on the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. The Project produces reports exploring the impact of the internet on families, communities, work and home, daily life, education, health care, and civic and political life. The Project aims to be an authoritative source on the evolution of the internet through surveys that examine how Americans use the internet and how their activities affect their lives.
Contemporary family life educators must operate in a wide range of settings and with increasingly varied populations and families. In the second edition of their successful Family Life Education, Powell and Cassidy expertly expose readers to the diverse landscape of the field while laying a comprehensive, practical foundation for future family life educators. The authors broad overview of the field features a blend of theory and practice, with full chapters on sexuality education, marriage education, and parent education-areas that have received evaluation and certification attention.
The CEBC website's simple and straightforward format enhances the user's ability to conduct literature searches, review extensive literature, or understand and critique research methodology. The website features brief and detailed summaries that provide salient information on each reviewed program.
by Sharon Preves, Ph.D. Associate Professor and Chair of Sociology, Hamline University
Welcoming a newborn child into an expectant family and surrounding community is fraught with emotion. Imagine how emotions in the delivery room might change if a newborn were pronounced "intersexed,"-a condition with external genitalia that are not clearly female or male, as occurs in 1 or 2 in 2,000 births.
The Grandparent Resource Site Grant provides a holistic system of services to grandparents, grandchildren and professionals with the goal of enhancing the abilities of kinship care families to foster school readiness in young children. The goal of this initiative is to enhance and advance the cognitive, social, emotional and physical development of preschool-aged children by supporting and educating grandparents, grandchildren and professionals
A complete guide for family members facing the practical and emotional issues that arise in seeking nursing home care and who are learning to be "the family member" of someone in a nursing home or senior's housing.
Core resources include, It's My Life: Employment Guide, Apartment Hunt, Creative Life Skills Activities, Developing your Vision while Attending College, I Can Do it! A Micropedia of Living on Your Own, I Know Where I am Going (But Will My Cash Keep Up?), It's Perfectly Normal, Life Skills Activities for Special Needs Children, Preparing Adolescents for Young Adulthood (PAYA), and may more resources available at low cost.
A new study shows that girls start to menstruate earlier when they experience biologically-disrupted homes(families in which the biological parents are separated or divorced) in early childhood. When a girl starts life with a high-risk father in the home, and then the family breaks up and that father leaves, her timing of puberty changes. She gets her first period about a year earlier than does either her older sister or other girls from disrupted families whose fathers do not display high risk behavior.
I am a family sociologist teaching in the Department of Family and Consumer Studies at the University of Utah. My research has explored marriage and divorce, the changing economics of single motherhood, work-family issues among higher education faculty, and how religion affects marriage and other intimate relationships.
I am the author of Understanding the Divorce Cycle: The Children of Divorce in Their Own Marriages (Cambridge University Press, 2005) and the editor, with Lori Kowaleski-Jones, of Fragile Families and the Marriage Agenda (Springer, 2005). Two additional books are under contract: Soulmates: Religion and Relationships among African-Americans and Latinos (Oxford University Press), with W. Bradford Wilcox, and Do Babies Matter? Gender and Family in the Ivory Tower (Rutgers University Press), with Mary Ann Mason and Marc Goulden.
