Examining the Association between Severity of Child Neglect and Quality of Parenting

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 385-394
Author(s):  
Maria L. Schweer-Collins ◽  
Kathleen A. J. DeBow ◽  
Emma R. Lyons ◽  
Elizabeth A. Skowron
Keyword(s):  
Child Neglect ◽  
Quality Of Parenting

How Parenting Influences the Lives of Children

2017 ◽  
pp. 5-31
Keyword(s):  
Population Based ◽  
Social Emotional ◽  
Parenting Support ◽  
Parent Outcomes ◽  
Parenting Influences ◽  
Quality Of Parenting ◽  
The Many ◽  
Children's Development ◽  
Children’S Development

Of all the potentially modifiable environmental risk and protective factors that can change the course of children’s development, none is more important than the quality of parenting children receive. To highlight the pervasive influence parents have on their children’s development and life opportunities, this chapter examines the many aspects of child development that are influenced by parents. Parents’ capacity to raise their children well is, in turn, influenced by a range of potentially modifiable social, emotional, relational, and contextual factors. These factors are explored, and the implications of each determinant with respect to the provision of parenting support are noted. Parenting programs provide a common pathway to positively influence diverse child and parent outcomes. It is argued that a comprehensive, need-responsive, and population-based system of parenting support is required to promote nurturing communities that will optimally assist parents in raising their children.

scholarly journals The American Family in Black & White: A Post-Racial Strategy for Improving Skills to Promote Equality

Daedalus ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 140 (2) ◽  
pp. 70-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
James J. Heckman
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Dysfunctional Families ◽  
Skill Gaps ◽  
Remediation Strategies ◽  
Racial Gaps ◽  
American Children ◽  
Quality Of Parenting ◽  
True Measure ◽  
Disadvantaged Families

In contemporary America, racial gaps in achievement are primarily due to gaps in skills. Skill gaps emerge early, before children enter school. Families are major producers of skills, thus inequality in school performance is strongly linked to inequality in family environments. Schools do little to reduce or enlarge the skill gaps that are present when children enter school. Parenting matters, and the true measure of child advantage and disadvantage is the quality of parenting received. A growing fraction of American children across all race and ethnic groups is being raised in dysfunctional families. Investment in the early lives of children from disadvantaged families will help close achievement gaps. America currently relies too heavily on schools and adolescent remediation strategies to solve problems that start in the preschool years. Policy should prevent rather than remediate. Voluntary, culturally sensitive support for parenting is a politically and economically palatable strategy that addresses problems common to all racial and ethnic groups.

Life Span: Parenting

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daphne S. Cain ◽  
Terri Combs-Orme
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Parent Child Relationship ◽  
Child Placement ◽  
Child Relationship ◽  
Significant Research ◽  
Quality Of Parenting

Parenting is a key part of social-work practice and research, particularly in the child welfare arena. Despite significant research and theory in other disciplines about the importance of the parent–child relationship to the quality of parenting, the focus of social work appears to lie in narrow goals such as the prevention of abuse and child placement and to employ interventions that lack significant evidence of effectiveness. This entry summarizes social-work practice and research in the area of parenting and reviews the state of the art overall in research and knowledge about parenting.

Quality of Parenting in Alcoholics and Narcotic Addicts

1989 ◽  
Vol 154 (5) ◽  
pp. 677-682 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elsa Bernardi ◽  
Michael Jones ◽  
Chris Tennant
Keyword(s):  
Normal Control ◽  
Parental Bonding ◽  
Normal Control Group ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Heroin Addicts ◽  
Parental Bonding Instrument ◽  
Paternal Parenting ◽  
Quality Of Parenting

Alcoholics and heroin addicts were compared with a normal control group to determine whether there were differences in quality of parenting during childhood, assessed using the Parental Bonding Instrument. Maternal and paternal overprotection were reported more commonly by narcotic addicts. Maternal overprotection alone was implicated in alcoholics. Narcotic addicts seem to have more disturbed parenting than alcoholics, especially paternal parenting.

The relations of migrant status and parenting to Chinese adolescents’ adjustment

2016 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 320-328 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guangzhen Zhang ◽  
Nancy Eisenberg ◽  
Zongbao Liang ◽  
Yi Li ◽  
Huihua Deng
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Social Competence ◽  
Positive Parenting ◽  
Migrant Status ◽  
Positive Adjustment ◽  
Academic Records ◽  
Quality Of Parenting ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Migrant Adolescents

The main goals of the present study were (a) to compare Chinese migrant and nonmigrant adolescents on mean levels of parenting, positive adjustment, and academic functioning, and to assess whether socioeconomic status (SES) accounted for any obtained differences, (b) to examine whether the relations of SES and migrant status to youths’ positive adjustment were mediated by quality of parenting, and (c) to examine relations of parenting to positive adjustment across time. Three months after adolescents (254 boys and 216 girls; 281 migrant and 189 nonmigrant adolescents; M age = 12.95 years, SD = 0.91 at the first wave) entered middle school (T1), and again one (T2) and two years later (T3), adolescents, parents, and/or teachers reported on parenting, and adolescents’ positive psychological adjustment and school-related social competence, and adolescents’ academic records were obtained from schools. Migrant parents were lower than nonmigrant parents on education and positive parenting (T1, T2, and T3). Migrant adolescents were lower than nonmigrant adolescents on self-reported self-esteem and life satisfaction, academic achievement (T1, T2, and T3) and teacher-reported school-related social competence (T3); they did not differ on most variables when parents’ education was controlled. When taking into account the stability of parenting and adjustment (and including T1 SES and migrant status as predictors of T2 variables), positive parenting predicted school-related social competence and academic achievement across time.

scholarly journals Relationship Between the Temperament Trait of Sensory Processing Sensitivity and Emotional Reactivity

2016 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 185-199 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jadzia Jagiellowicz ◽  
Arthur Aron ◽  
Elaine N. Aron
Keyword(s):  
Sensory Processing ◽  
Emotional Reactivity ◽  
Emotional Stimuli ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Highly Sensitive ◽  
Sensory Processing Sensitivity ◽  
Quality Of Parenting ◽  
First Time ◽  
Temperament Trait

Sensory processing sensitivity (SPS) is a temperament trait found in around 20% of humans, which has been found to enhance responsiveness to diverse stimuli. In this study, we investigated for the first time the extent to which SPS, and its interaction with quality of parenting, predicts positive and negative experiences in response to emotional stimuli. Participants (N = 96) from the upper and lower quartiles on the standard SPS measure (the Highly Sensitive Person Scale) rated the valence and their arousal level when viewing emotionally evocative and neutral pictures selected from the International Affective Picture System. High (vs. low) SPS individuals rated pictures eliciting emotion, and especially positive ones, as significantly more valenced, and tended to respond faster to the positive pictures; also, high, vs. low, SPS individuals who had reported having high-quality parenting reported greater arousal in response to positive pictures. Overall, results suggest that high SPS individuals respond more strongly to emotional stimuli—especially positive—without being more aroused unless they had especially high-quality parenting.

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