AMERICAN FAMILIES
Parental feeding practices and child weight status in Mexican American families: a longitudinal analysis
... This study provides longitudinal evidence that parental feeding practices influence children’s weight status in Mexican American families, and that children’s weight status also influences parental feeding ...
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The lingering impact of residential mobility among rural African American families with young children
... Poor families often experience a myriad of stressors arising from financial strain, living in dangerous neighborhoods, negative life events, and high rates of residential ...African American families ...
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Parental feeding practices in Mexican American families: initial test of an expanded measure
... in families [60], few studies of parental feeding practices have included ...Mexican American families that examines culturally-related paren- tal roles may help to illuminate these ...
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Genome- and epigenome-wide association study of hypertriglyceridemic waist in Mexican American families
... replicate in Mexican American families. Second, estima- tion of heritability is often considered an essential first step towards understanding the genetic basis of a pheno- typic trait, and we find that ...
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Religiosity as a predictor of adolescent internalizing symptoms in single-parented African American families
... Adolescence is characterized as a challenging period of development (Hankin & Abramson, 2001). For this reason, protective factors during this process are of great relevance and research interest. Among those ...
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Child and parent correlates of racial socialization in African American families
... The current investigation has two primary aims. First, I will propose a model of racial socialization. Figure 1 shows the conceptual model that guides this research and the model will be described in detail. Second, ...
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Absent Fathers and Delinquent Sons among the African American Families
... black families, and the kinship model of the black family comes from African ..."matriarchal families were pathological and detrimental to the personality development of black children," Genovese ...
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Developing Culturally Responsive Approaches With Southeast Asian American Families Experiencing Developmental Disabilities
... Asian American families are underrepresented among recipients of special education and social services for people with developmental ...Mien families’ perceptions of developmental disabilities and ...
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Food insecurity may be linked to childhood obesity in low-income Mexican-American families
... Mexican- American mothers who are currently experiencing food insecurity were more likely to worry that their chil- dren were eating too much food and tended to offer smaller portion sizes to their children than ...
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Predictors of literacy practices in rural African American families
... African American families, particularly those that are low-income (Craig & Washingon, 2004; Heath, 1982, 1983; Purcell-Gates 1996; Teale, 1986; Vernon-Feagans, 1996; Washington, ...these families ...
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Subabusive Violence in Child Rearing in Middle-class American Families
... Subabusive Violence in Child Rearing in Middle-class American Families. Services[r] ...
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Rural African American families' child care placement : examined through child age, economic, education, social support, and geographic isolation measures
... hundred families at ten locations across the United States, Peyton and colleagues (2001) found that families with higher incomes used non-relative in-home care or center care for their children while lower- ...
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Shared Reading in Children’s Heritage Language Development: Case Studies of Three Chinese-American Families
... Hegemony is ensured when they can convince those who fail to meet those standards to view their failure as being the result of the inadequacy of their own language’ (p. 113). The pull towards assimilation is strong, ...
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Gender differences in the distribution of total work time of Latin American families: the importance of social norms
... This study aims to analyze the differences in the time spent in total work (paid and unpaid) in four Latin-American countries. This is an important issue, since this time can be converted into money, goods, and ...
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Seeking the Salubrious Sea: The Health and Environments of Urban American Families, 1870-1930
... This was also true for children in hospitals and other institutions. Although institutionalization often meant children’s separations from their families, individual experiences varied. While it appears that ...
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Cosleeping and Sleep Problems in Hispanic-American Urban Young Children
... Frequent all-night cosleeping is significantly more common among urban Hispanic-American families (about 1 in 5) than among white American families (approximately 1 in 20) and especially[r] ...
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Mutation spectrum in South American Lynch syndrome families
... and American Indians roots ...and American Indian ancestry influence the populations ...South American families suspected of Lynch syndrome has identified disease-predisposing germline ...
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Acculturation and Dietary Change in Mexican American Immigrant Women
... Mexican American families (FM) living in Yuma County, Arizona, and low-income non- migrant Mexican families (NM) from Hermosillo, Sonora, ...129 families per group; we interviewed 150 wom- en ...
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Fathers – An Untapped Resource for Increasing Physical Activity among African American Girls
... African American girls at a disadvantage because they are more likely to have non-resident fathers (Pew Research, ...African American fathers because a higher proportion of them do not reside with their ...
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How Ties to Professional Support Networks Impact Social Outcomes among Homeless Youth
... years American language instructors and university administrators believed that participating in a “junior year abroad” experience and living with host families from the target culture would not only ...
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