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Video: "Ready, Set, Go: Preparing Children for the Kindergarten Transition"

One of the most difficult times as a parent is transitioning your child into kindergarten. This webinar from has been developed by a kindergarten teacher to help answer questions you may have as your child begins kindergarten and their academic experience! Explore what you can do now to support your child’s growth and development so they are better prepared for this exciting transition.

Provided through a partnership between the Minnesota Department of Education and the Working Family Resource Center.

Modern Parenthood: Roles of Moms and Dads Converge

The way mothers and fathers spend their time has changed dramatically in the past half century. Dads are doing more housework and child care; moms more paid work outside the home. Neither has overtaken the other in their “traditional” realms, but their roles are converging, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of long-term data on time use.

At the same time, roughly equal shares of working mothers and fathers report in another Pew Research Center survey feeling stressed about juggling work and family life: 56 percent of working moms and 50 percent of working dads say they find it very or somewhat difficult to balance these responsibilities.

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Parenting the Young Child syllabus

Syllabus for San Diego State University CFD 353A: Parenting the Young Child

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Parenting syllabus

Syllabus for Messiah College HDFS 242 Parenting

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Parenting Education and Support Programs syllabus

Syllabus for University of Wisconsin Madison HDFS 650 Parenting Education and Support Programs

Young Adults in the Parental Home and the Great Recession

"Using data from the 2006 and 2011 American Community Survey 1-year estimates, this profile examines the unemployment rate and subsequent median earnings of young adults in the labor force pre and post The Great Recession. Comparisons are made between young adults coresiding with at least one parent and those who were not living with a parent (i.e., living independently). In addition, data from the Toledo Adolescent Research Study (TARS) provide new insights into young adults’ motivations for co-residing with parents."

Parent-Child Relations. An Introduction to Parenting - 9th Edition

The user-friendly and research-based approach to this best-selling text provides the most comprehensive coverage on parent-child relations across the lifespan while balancing theory with clean prose, effective pedagogy, and useful strategies. Authored by Jerry J. Bigner and Clara Gerhardt.

 

Valentina Bodrug-Lungu
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Impact of parents’ migration on Moldavian youths’ perception of family

by Valentina Bodrug-Lungu, Ph.D., associate professor, Moldovan State University, and Erin Kostina-Ritchey, M.A., M.Ed., CFLE, Texas Tech University

Migration is an important phenomenon that directly and indirectly influences both the socioeconomic and demographic development sectors of each country. In the case of the Eastern European Republic of Moldova, family structures and belief systems are directly affected.

Katherine Newman
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The accordion family

by Katherine Newman, Ph.D., James B. Knapp Dean of the Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, The Johns Hopkins University

Why should government officials care where adult children make their homes? Because those private choices have serious public consequences. The longer aging bambini live with their parents, the fewer new families are formed, knocking the social policies of the country for a loop. Plummeting fertility translates into fewer workers to contribute to the retirement accounts in an aging society.

Journal of Marriage and Family

“Being Raised by White People”: Navigating Racial Difference Among Adopted Multiracial Adults

There are increasing numbers of multiracial families created through marriage, adoption, birth, and a growing population of multiracial persons. Multiracials are a hidden but dominant group of transracially adopted children in both the United Kingdom and the United States. This paper, published in the Journal of Marriage and Family in 2009, introduces findings from an interpretive study of 25 transracially adopted multiracials regarding a set of experiences participants called “being raised by White people.”