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Cơ quản chủ quản: Center for the Future of Children
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The Consequences of Childhood Overweight and Obesity
Tập 16 Số 1 - Trang 47-67 - 2006
Researchers are only gradually becoming aware of the gravity of the risk that
overweight and obesity pose for children's health. In this article Stephen
Daniels documents the heavy toll that the obesity epidemic is taking on the
health of the nation's children. He discusses both the immediate risks
associated with childhood obesity and the longer-term risk that obese children
and adolescents will ...
Civic Engagement and the Transition to Adulthood
Tập 20 Số 1 - Trang 159-179 - 2010
Constance Flanagan and Peter Levine survey research on civic engagement among
U.S. adolescents and young adults. Civic engagement, they say, is important both
for the functioning of democracies and for the growth and maturation it
encourages in young adults, but opportunities for civic engagement are not
evenly distributed by social class or race and ethnicity. Today's young adults,
note the autho...
The Prevention of Childhood Sexual Abuse
Tập 19 Số 2 - Trang 169-194 - 2009
David Finkelhor examines initiatives to prevent child sexual abuse, which have
focused on two primary strategies—offender management and school-based
educational programs. Recent major offender managment initiatives have included
registering sex offenders, notifying communities about their presence,
conducting background employment checks, controlling where offenders can live,
and imposing longer ...
The Role of Home-Visiting Programs in Preventing Child Abuse and Neglect
Tập 19 Số 2 - Trang 119-146 - 2009
Kimberly Howard and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn examine home visiting, an increasingly
popular method for delivering services for families, as a strategy for
preventing child abuse and neglect. They focus on early interventions because
infants are at greater risk for child abuse and neglect than are older children.
In their article, Howard and Brooks-Gunn take a close look at evaluations of
nine home-visit...
Preventing Child Abuse and Neglect with Parent Training: Evidence and Opportunities
Tập 19 Số 2 - Trang 95-118 - 2009
Researchers have identified four common co-occurring parental risk
factors—substance abuse, mental illness, domestic violence, and child conduct
problems—that lead to child maltreatment. The extent to which maltreatment
prevention programs must directly address these risk factors to improve
responsiveness to parenting programs or can directly focus on improving
parenting skills, says Richard Barth...