Future of Children
SCOPUS (1994-2021)
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Cơ quản chủ quản: Center for the Future of Children
Lĩnh vực:
Sociology and Political ScienceHealth (social science)Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
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The Consequences of Childhood Overweight and Obesity
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 childre... ...
Tập 16 Số 1 - Trang 47-67 - 2006
Civic Engagement and the Transition to AdulthoodConstance 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 ... ...
Tập 20 Số 1 - Trang 159-179 - 2010
The Prevention of Childhood Sexual Abuse
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 ... ...
Tập 19 Số 2 - Trang 169-194 - 2009
The Role of Home-Visiting Programs in Preventing Child Abuse and Neglect
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... ...
Tập 19 Số 2 - Trang 119-146 - 2009
Preventing Child Abuse and Neglect with Parent Training: Evidence and Opportunities
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 ... ...
Tập 19 Số 2 - Trang 95-118 - 2009