In Part 2 of this series, Sarah Dargatz wrote briefly about
parenting coordination, one of the interventions available in family law cases before the Alberta Court of Queen's Bench.
Fox, Wen-Jui Han, Christopher Ruhm, and Jane Waldfogel discuss trends in income, work hours, and
parenting time over the past four decades (National Bureau of Economic Research, Working Paper 17135, June 2011).
i-parent is available at www.gotateenager.org.uk and aims to help parents with teenagers develop their
parenting skills.
Howe report on Quebec's ten-year-old daycare system found that "children are worse off [in daycare] in a variety of behavioural and health dimensions, ranging from aggression to motor-skills to illness." The study also found that the Quebec program led to "more hostile, less consistent
parenting, worse parental health and lower-quality parental relationships." Although more women were able to enter the workforce, they suffered a higher incidence of depression.
Interaction between ethnicity and
parenting styles affects teenage sexual behavior, (14) suggesting that enhancing parent education programs may be particularly valuable for certain ethnic groups.
"It's a real asset for us." The district also has a central lending library of books, DVDs and tapes on topics like child development and educational topics for parents, as well as offering
parenting classes, and pulls in tens of thousands of hours of volunteer work each year, thanks in large part to a part-time volunteer service coordinator in every one of the district's 43 schools.
Having raised three daughters, I also know how challenging
parenting teens can be, especially when it involves issues of their emerging sexuality.
There may be a shared but largely unspoken awareness that this departure from home will somehow be different from other experiences in
parenting or in being a child.
This program announcement solicits research aimed at increasing
parenting capacities while simultaneously focusing on the reduction, elimination, or prevention of one or more high-risk health behaviors or poor health habits in youth and adolescent children.
Part of
parenting is helping children muddle through their mistakes and creating an environment of forgiveness.
HOW TO PARENT WITH YOUR EX: RESIDENTAL & NON-RESIDENTIAL PARENT holds wide value as it addresses a major social issue:
parenting after divorce; and thus is featured here to reach audiences of non-parents and other concerned adults.
In most cases there's no formal policy, and several states either are known for family judges disinclined to grant homosexuals custody or have indirect statutory barriers to gay
parenting. Nebraska banned gay foster
parenting in 1995.