Child Development and the Social Demography of Childhood

Neighborhood quality and somatic complaints among American youth

“…Chronic illness affected the lives of almost a quarter of the sample. These figures reflect similar trends documented elsewhere [35].…”

An examination of the validity of the Family Affluence Scale II (FAS II) in a general adolescent population of Canada

“…Single parent families are known to be at risk of lower SES (Hernandez 1997;Proctor and Dalaker 2002). In an analysis of more than 15,000 children and adolescents in the 2001 British Family and Children's study, Spencer (2006) demonstrated that living in a single parent family was associated with significantly greater risk of adverse health outcomes, and much of this association was mediated by the material hardship characteristic of lone parent families.…”

“…The preponderance of single female headed families are precipitated by separation or divorce (Hernandez 1997). Family living arrangements become more complex as people remarry, or children shuttle back and forth between the respective households of their divorced parents.…”

“…Family structure is important because if only one parent is present it may limit the amount of resources, human, financial or otherwise that are available to the child. Over the last 150 years in the United States there has been a tremendous increase in single parent families, with an estimated 30% of children under the age of 18 living in single parent households (Hernandez 1997). Single parent families are more likely to report lower SES than two parent families (Ensminger et al 2000) and as a group are expected to have fewer financial resources than two parent families.…”

Prediction of Resilience of Adolescents Whose Parents Are Divorced

“…While Turkey is rather behind in divorce rates compared to many other countries, the divorce rate has been drastically increasing in the recent years. The increase of socio-economic status and improvement of cultural level, the changes and new expectations in marital roles, participation of women in work force, the changes emerging in dimensions such as communication between spouses and expectations from marriage play an important role in the increase rates of divorce (Arıkan, 1996;Hernandez, 1997). Besides, nowadays divorce is evaluated more tolerantly in society than earlier decades (Yazıcıoğlu, 1995).…”