In the mix, yet on the margins: The place of families in urban neighborhood and child development research

Article Abstract:

A critical examination of literature from the Nineties regarding the impact of family structures and processes on the relationship between child development and urban neighbourhoods is presented. Reference is made to the fact that whilst the family has been the central focus in this area of research, it has remained on the margins regarding methodological and theoretical specificity.

Child development, Sociology, Urban, Urban sociology

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Families in poverty in the 1990s: Trends, causes, consequences, and lessons learned

Article Abstract:

A review of the research conducted in the Nineties on families in poverty is presented, with reference to the causes, trends, effects and directions for the future. It is noted that the definition of poverty is not confined to low income, but is a disadvantage that effects people's emotional, social, intellectual, and physiological development.

Poverty

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Families with young children: A review of research in the 1990s

Article Abstract:

Issues concerning research that was conducted on families with children under the age of ten in the Nineties. Particular research interests include early childhood attachment relationships, family structures, and the effects of different parenting styles and practices.

Children, Parenting

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