Parental involvement in adolescent schooling: a proximal process with transcontextual validity

Article Abstract:

Research has been undertaken into whether the influence of parental involvement in the education of adolescents has transcontextual validity. This work was carried out in order to test the view that systematically investigating proximal processes as key forces in human development may be an integral part of modern developmental science. The results call into question the assumption that proximal processes reflecting developmental competence are most influential in environments where there are extensive resources. They also emphasize the value of asking a number of separate, but related, questions when undertaking subgroup analyses.

Education, Parent participation (Education)

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"Other teens drink, but not my kid": does parental awareness of adolescent alcohol use protect adolescents from risky consequences?

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A study on parental awareness of adolescent alcohol use conducted on 199 white mother-adolescent dyads and 144 white father-adolescent dyads revealed that less than one-third of the parents know that their adolescent children are drinking. Those who are aware of their children's alcohol use are given more opportunity to advise them against drinking and driving. They are also found to openly discuss amongst their offsprings the risks and consequences of getting drunk.

Drinking of alcoholic beverages, Drinking (Alcoholic beverages), Alcoholism, Family, Alcohol and youth, Alcohol use, Juvenile drinking

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Has family policy come of age? A decade review of the state of U.S. family policy in the 1990s

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Issues concerning the United States family policy during the Nineties are presented. Reference is made to both explicit and implicit definitions of the term 'family policy', and an overview of selected issues such as family and work conflict, marriage and family poverty are included.

United States, Social policy, Social science research, Family policy, 1990s (Decade) AD

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