Protective Factors for African American Children Raised by Single Mothers

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia S. Dixon ◽  
Steven A. Meyers ◽  
Michael C. Helford
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Protective Factors ◽  
Single Mothers ◽  
African American Children ◽  
American Children

The Impact of Drugs, Infants, Single Mothers, and Relatives on Reunification

2020 ◽  
pp. 194-214
Author(s):  
Kim Wittenstrom ◽  
Donald J. Baumann ◽  
John D. Fluke ◽  
J. Christopher Graham ◽  
Joyce James
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
African American ◽  
Single Mothers ◽  
Proportional Hazards ◽  
African American Children ◽  
Protective Services ◽  
Drug Involvement ◽  
American Children ◽  
Post Entry ◽  
Main Effects

Using a Decision-Making Ecology (DME) approach and proportional hazards models, the study reviewed in this chapter isolated four case factor profiles that interacted strongly with race and resulted in disparate reunification outcomes for African American children compared with Anglos. The four interrelated factors were drug involvement, a solo infant case, single mothers, and relative placements. A cohort of 21,763 children from the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services who were placed for the first time in care, who were under 13, and were either Anglo or African American were followed for 20 months or more post entry into care. Starting with an initial model consisting of main effects only and consistent with other studies, African American children had a 12% lower hazard rate of reunification compared to Anglo children. However, when a set of case profiles involving combinations of single parents, single infants, drug involvements, and kinship placements were crossed with race, the magnitude of the effect of race on hazard rates fanned out from no difference to as much as 68% that of Anglo children. The results show that racial disparities in outcomes resulting from complex, contextual decision-making cannot be modeled well with simple main effects models.

Final Consonant Deletion in African American Children Speaking Black English

1993 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 161-166 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J. Moran
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Black English ◽  
African American Children ◽  
Vowel Length ◽  
Minimal Pairs ◽  
Speech Evaluation ◽  
American Children

The purpose of this study was to determine whether African American children who delete final consonants mark the presence of those consonants in a manner that might be overlooked in a typical speech evaluation. Using elicited sentences from 10 African American children from 4 to 9 years of age, two studies were conducted. First, vowel length was determined for minimal pairs in which final consonants were deleted. Second, listeners who identified final consonant deletions in the speech of the children were provided training in narrow transcription and reviewed the elicited sentences a second time. Results indicated that the children produced longer vowels preceding "deleted" voiced final consonants, and listeners perceived fewer deletions following training in narrow transcription. The results suggest that these children had knowledge of the final consonants perceived to be deleted. Implications for assessment and intervention are discussed.

scholarly journals Novel genetic risk factors for asthma in African American children: Precision Medicine and the SAGE II Study

2016 ◽  
Vol 68 (6-7) ◽  
pp. 391-400 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marquitta J. White ◽  
O. Risse-Adams ◽  
P. Goddard ◽  
M. G. Contreras ◽  
J. Adams ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
African American ◽  
Precision Medicine ◽  
Genetic Risk ◽  
Genetic Risk Factors ◽  
African American Children ◽  
American Children
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