The Columbia Population Research Center is accepting applications for the Fragile Families Summer Data Workshop to be held July 11-13, 2012, at Columbia University in New York City.
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").
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.
State assessments are increasingly used as outcome measures for education evaluations, and such evaluations generally use pretest scores as control variables. The correlation between the pretest and outcome (posttest) measures is a factor in determining, among other things, a study's statistical power. This report examines variability in pretest-posttest correlation coefficients for state assessment data on samples of low-performing, average-performing, and proficient students to determine how sample characteristics (such as achievement level) affect pretest-posttest correlation coefficients.
Child Trends' latest brief, Frequent Residential Mobility and Young Children's Well-being, examines demographic characteristics of young children identified as "frequent movers," as well as how the experience of frequent moves is associated with their mental and physical health, compared with children who have experienced more residential stability. Examining children younger than six who moved five or more times, we found that only a small percentage of young children experienced frequent moves. However, children from households with no fully employed adult, children from single-parent households, and children who are mixed-race or Hispanic were over-represented in this group.
This аnnotated bibliography and summary of research identify significant research carried out in the decade since 1999 on the issue of dating violence among high school and middle school youth. The survey provided by the bibliography and summary covers quantitative and qualitative literature on the definition and prevalence of, as well as risk factors for, adolescent dating violence, also called teen relationship abuse. Commonly researched risk factors, correlates, or predictors of teen dating violence include demographic and community-level factors, as well as more proximate family-level, individual-level, and situational risks. Particular note is taken of longitudinal work on such factors.
