Family Poverty and Structure

Maughan, Barbara; Rowe, Richard; Murray, Joseph A.

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“…Past studies on the effect of family structure on adolescent development contributed to providing insights on which aspects related to family (i.e., structure, internal processes, contextual resources) mattered most for parents and their adolescents to flourish. Although this article did not aim at systematically reviewing studies on parent-adolescent relationship quality, it overviewed previous research to identify a complex series of contextual variables and family processes that explain the well-being of the adolescent, such as the interparental conflict [36][37][38]51,83], the consequent spillover effect on the child subsystem [40,41], the changes in the economic situation following parental separation/divorce [84], and the quality of new relationships in reconstituted families [68,70]. Additionally, this article examined evidence on some of the "modern families" identified by Golombok [14] (i.e., sexual minority parent families and families created through assisted reproduction), showing that neither the parents' non-heterosexual orientation nor the parent-child biological unrelatedness has a detrimental effect on the adolescent development and the overall family relationships [15,59,63,66].…”

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What Decides the Well-Being of the Relationship between Parents and Adolescents

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The literature indicates a variety of factors that contribute to adolescent well-being: among these, the parent–adolescent relationship has a key role. The present article offered an overview of studies on parent–adolescent relationships across diverse family forms, not limited to the traditional family but also including “non-traditional” and “modern” families. To do so, this article described the evolution of the concept of family over the last fifty years and traced the significant family variables that guarantee adolescent well-being. Additionally, this article discussed the changes that occurred in family research, shifting from studies that considered only the family structure to more recent studies that investigated family processes and contextual factors. Overall, the reviewed studies indicated that the quality of parent–adolescent relationship, the interparental conflict and the consequent spillover effect on the child subsystem, and the changes in the economic situation following parental separation/divorce override the effect of the family structure. Finally, this article pointed out the need to examine, in the future research, adolescent well-being across diverse families by adopting more fine-grained methodologies, collecting data from the entire family system, and using a multi-method assessment to obtain a more ecological view of family complexity.

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“…Although modest, this confirmed that income was negatively associated with CP in children. Reviews of quasi-experimental studies (Jaffee, Strait, & Odgers, 2012;Maughan, Rowe, & Murray, 2017) further support a causal effect of family SES on offspring CP. Understanding this relationship could have important implications for policy and practice; if there is a causal effect of SES on CP then interventions to improve SES, or to disrupt the pathway between SES and CP, could reduce overall levels of CP and also help to flatten the social gradient in CP (Piotrowska, Stride, Maughan, Goodman, & Rowe, 2015).SES is often modelled as a distal cause of CP, with more proximal factors mediating its effect.…”

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Understanding the relationship between family income and conduct problems: findings from the mental health of children and young people survey

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Background Children from low-socioeconomic backgrounds exhibit more behavioural difficulties than those from more affluent families. Influential theoretical models specify family stress and child characteristics as mediating this effect. These accounts, however, have often been based on cross-sectional data or longitudinal analyses that do not capture all potential pathways, and therefore may not provide good policy guidance. Methods In a UK representative sample of 2399 children aged 5–15, we tested mediation of the effect of household income on parent and teacher reports of conduct problems (CP) via unhealthy family functioning, poor parental mental health, stressful life events, child physical health and reading ability. We applied cross-lagged longitudinal mediation models which allowed for testing of reciprocal effects whereby the hypothesised mediators were modelled as outcomes as well as predictors of CP. Results We found the predicted significant longitudinal effect of income on CP, but no evidence that it was mediated by the child and family factors included in the study. Instead, we found significant indirect paths from income to parental mental health, child physical health and stressful life events that were transmitted via child CP. Conclusion The results confirm that income is associated with change in CP but do not support models that suggest this effect is transmitted via unhealthy family functioning, parental mental health, child physical health, stressful life events or reading difficulties. Instead, the results highlight that child CP may be a mediator of social inequalities in family psychosocial functioning.

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Family Poverty and Structure

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What Decides the Well-Being of the Relationship between Parents and Adolescents

What Decides the Well-Being of the Relationship between Parents and Adolescents

Understanding the relationship between family income and conduct problems: findings from the mental health of children and young people survey

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