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Current Research in Child and Family Life

Health

• Child and Family Wellbeing: Current Trends (1-09)

• Family Mealtime is Good for Kids (11-09)

• Health Issues for Idaho’s Hispanic Youth (10-08)

• How Are the Children? (7-08)

• Kincare Families: Child and caregiver wellbeing (12-08)

• More Good News about America's Children (3-09)

• Young Adulthood can be Hazardous to Your Health (9-08)

• Youth Smoking Declines (10-07)

Risk and Resilience

• Back to the Future: American Families on the brink of the 21^st Century (2-00)

• Beating the Odds: Risk and resilience for families and youth (4-05)

• Child and Family Wellbeing: Current Trends (1-09)

• Children in Kincare: How do they fare? (2-02)

• Community Service and Social Responsibility in Youth (1-01)

• Down on the Farm: Pathways of resilience for rural youth (9-01)

• Family Risk Factors and Child Outcomes (7-07)

• Family Time Together (12-04)

• How Are the Children? (7-08)

• Is Maternal Employment Good for Family Life? (2-09)

• Kincare Families: Child and caregiver wellbeing (12-08)

• Kincare in Idaho: A profile of Idaho families (11-08)

• More Good News about America's Children (3-09)

• Personal Strategies for Resilience (5-05)

• Positive Outcomes for Youth: Roles for family, friends, and community (2-01)

• Poverty: What's the Risk for Children? (10-09)

• Raising Children: What research can tell today’s parents (9-04)

• Safe Passage to Adulthood: Preparing youth for the years ahead (11-02)

• Television and Young Children: A word of caution (3-05)

• Trajectories of Family Life: Growing up within the family context (5-08)

Parenting Strategies

• Family Mealtime is Good for Kids (11-09)

• Family Time Together (12-04)

• Fathers in America: 100 years of change (6-99)

• Moms and Dads Talk to Kids: Parent practice and emergent literacy (9-03)

• Raising Children: What research can tell today’s parents (9-04)

• Television and Young Children: A word of caution (3-05)

• Who’s raising the kids these days? (9-99)

Marriage, Separation, and Divorce

• Better Living Through Marriage: Wedding vows and adult well-being (8-01)

• Child Custody: No easy answers (4-99)

• Divorce and Children: What hurts, what helps? (2-99)

• Life After Divorce: People and possibilities (6-02)

• The Good Divorce: Is it possible? (3-01)

Community Resources and Family Life

• After 9-11: What changed? (4-02)

• Civic Participation and American Life: Where have all the voters gone? (3-99)

• Community Service and Social Responsibility in Youth (1-01)

• Community-Based Literacy Environments: Some have it and some don't (11-03)

• Connecting with Others: Social capital and the quality of American life (12-00)

• Hispanic Buying Power Increases in Idaho Communities (7-08)

• Plain Talk: Increasing sexually responsible behavior among youth (3-02)

• Positive Outcomes for Youth: Roles for family, friends, and community (2-01)

• Religious Trends in the U.S. (4-10)

Family Economic Challenges

• Children in Poverty: Urban vs. Rural Lives (4-09)

• Food Stamps and Poverty in the U.S. (4-10)

• Hard times on the Farm: Economic stress and family life. (7-99)

• How Much Income is Enough? Hardship for America’s kindergarteners (12-03)

• It Just Doesn’t Work: Challenges of low income parents balancing work and family (10-03)

• Low Income Families: Assets and Liabilities (6-08)

• Making Ends Meet: Balancing the budget on low wage work (11-01)

• Poverty: What's the Risk for Children? (10-09)

• Recession Challenges for Idaho Families (3-10)

• Strong Links Found between Parent Education and Family Income (11-04)

• Teen Pregnancy and Family Poverty: Which comes first? (8-00)

• The EITC Helps Rural Families Meet Needs (2-08)

• Welfare Programs: Who needs them? (4-02)

• Welfare Reform: How have families and children fared? (9-02)

Rural Families

• Children in Poverty: Urban vs. Rural Lives (4-09)

• Children in Rural vs. Urban Idaho: How do they compare? (6-05)

• Down on the Farm: Pathways of resilience for rural youth (9-01)

• Guess Who's Coming to Rural Communities? (12-09)

• Hard times on the Farm: Economic stress and family life. (7-99)

• School Readiness Challenges for Rural Children (5-08)

• The EITC Helps Rural Families Meet Needs (2-08)

Idaho’s children and families

• Children in Rural vs. Urban Idaho: How do they compare? (6-05)

• Health Issues for Idaho’s Hispanic Youth (10-08)

• Kincare in Idaho: A profile of Idaho families (11-08)

• Recession Challenges for Idaho Families (3-10)

Education

• A Strong Start: Literacy begins at home (12-03)

• Academic Engagement: In-school performance and out-of-school time

• Community-based Literacy Environments: Some have it and some don’t (11-03)

• High School Diploma vs. the GED: Are They Equivalent? (4-09)

• Moms and Dads Talk to Kids: Parent practice and emergent literacy (9-03)

• Parents as Teachers Program Addresses Emergent Literacy in the Home (2-04)

• Public Funds and Early Childhood: Return on investment in quality programs for children (5-04)

• School Readiness Challenges for Rural Children (5-08)

Culture and diversity

• A Cultural Lens for Cognition and Perception: Asian and American worldviews (5-05)

• Deportation and the Children Left Behind: A challenge for families and communities (10-08)

• Health Issues for Idaho’s Hispanic Youth (10-08)

• Hispanic Buying Power Increases in Idaho Communities (7-08)

• Idaho's Journey: Building Community Strength in Human Rights and Diversity (2-10)

Adolescents and Young Adults

• Bridge to Adulthood for American Youth (1-06)

• Response Inhibition and Self Control: Brain development in the teenage years (3-05)

• Safe Passage to Adulthood: Preparing youth for the years ahead (11-02)

• Teen Pregnancy and Family Poverty: Which comes first? (8-00)

• Young Adulthood Can Be Hazardous to Your Health (1-09)

Work and Family

• Balancing Work and Family: What’s a mother (or father) to do?

• Is Maternal Employment Good for Family Life? (2-09)

• It Just Doesn’t Work: Challenges of low income parents balancing work and family (10-03)

• Welfare to work programs and children's well-being (10-01)

• Working Moms and Family Life: What do kids think? (7-00)

Family History

• 50 Years of Change for Families: Education, Income, Work, and Divorce

• Fathers in America: 100 years of change (6-99)

• In the Good Old Days: Fact or fiction on the nostalgia trip (8-99)

• Minding the Children: A History of Childcare in America (1-00)

• The 50’s Families Over Time: Transitions from the Traditional (4-01)

Young Children

• A Strong Start: Literacy begins at home (12-03)

• Birth to Three: What's so important about the early years? (5-02)

• Moms and Dads Talk to Kids: Parent practice and emergent literacy (9-03)

• Parents as Teachers Program Addresses Emergent Literacy in the Home (2-04)

• Public Funds and Early Childhood: Return on investment in quality programs for children (5-04)

• Talk to Your Baby (2-09)

• The First Three Years: Putting the brain research in context (10-01)

• Turning in to Infants: Responsive caregiving in the early years (1-02)

Aging

• Concepts of Aging: Is Forty the New Thirty? (6-09)

• Guess Who's Coming to Rural Communities? (12-09)

 

• The Parent Connection
• Parenting Apart

Handouts for Families

• Navigating Work and Family
• Take Time: Literacy

Family Life Programs

• Block Fest
• Parents as Teachers In Idaho

• Tools for Parents as Teachers Programs

  • University of Idaho Survey of Parenting Practice
  • The Parent Connection
  • Parenting Apart

  Current Research in Child and Family Life

  Health

  Risk and Resilience

  Parenting Strategies

  Marriage, Separation and Divorce

  Community Resources and Family Life

  Family Economic Challenges

  Rural Families

  Idaho’s Children and Families

  Education

  Culture and Diversity

  Adolescents and Young Adults

  Work and Family

  Family History

  Young Children

• Aging