Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing in Middle Childhood

脆弱家庭和童年中期的儿童福祉

基本信息

批准号：
7840516
负责人：
Sara McLanahan
金额：
$ 210.34万
依托单位：
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2006
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2006-07-04 至 2012-09-14
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7840516
关键词：
5 year old 9 year old Academic achievement Achievement Address Adult Affect Age Behavioral Biological Birth Caregivers Characteristics Child Child Care Child Support Child health care Childhood Cohort Studies Data Data Analyses Data Collection Development Disadvantaged Discipline Endowment Environment Ethnic group Family Family Study Fathers Funding Future Genetic Genetic Predisposition to Disease Genotype Health Health Status Home environment Immigrant Imprisonment Income Interview Journals Language Life Measures Minority Groups Mothers Outcome Paper Parents Peer Review Performance Play Policies Problem behavior Publications Relative (related person)Research Research Personnel Resources Role Saliva Sampling Schools Social Problems Social Welfare Source Staging Surveys Time Unmarried Unmarried Father Update early childhood experience family structure gene environment interaction kindergarten member men&apos s group parental influence racial and ethnic social teacher

项目摘要

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study is a longitudinal birth cohort study of approximately 3700 unmarried parents and 1200 married parents and their children. We seek funding to: 1) perform assessments at age 9 of children's health, language ability, academic achievement, behavior problems and social relationships; 2) conduct interviews with children's biological parents, to update information on family resources and parental relationships; 3) collect saliva samples for genotyping from primary caregivers and children; 4) Interview social parents who live with the child, and; 5) collect information from children's teachers on child outcomes and school characteristics. These data will allow researchers to answer the following questions: How do children develop over time, and how do family resources influence children's health and development? How do the resources of unmarried parents evolve over time, relative to those of married parents? How do children's genetic endowments interact with their environments to influence their outcomes? What role do social (non- biological) parents play in the lives of children? How do school environments influence children's social and academic outcomes? The study includes a large number of children and adults who are: poor, members of racial and ethnic minority groups, immigrants and disproportionately affected by welfare, child support, child care, and incarceration policies. The children have diverse and often unstable family structures and child care arrangements. Thus, the sample is well-suited to study how multiple sources of disadvantage influence child health and development. The data are also unique in containing detailed information on mothers, fathers, and their relationships with each other. The information on unmarried fathers, in particular, allows us to follow a group of men that is often under-sampled in national surveys.

描述（由申请人提供）：脆弱家庭和儿童福祉研究是一项纵向出生队列研究，研究对象为约 3700 名未婚父母和 1200 名已婚父母及其子女。我们寻求资金用于：1）在 9 岁时对儿童的健康、语言能力、学业成绩、行为问题和社会关系进行评估； 2）与儿童的亲生父母进行访谈，了解家庭资源和亲子关系的最新信息； 3) 收集主要照顾者和儿童的唾液样本进行基因分型； 4) 采访与孩子同住的社会父母； 5) 从儿童老师那里收集有关儿童成绩和学校特征的信息。这些数据将使研究人员能够回答以下问题：儿童如何随着时间的推移而发展，以及家庭资源如何影响儿童的健康和发展？相对于已婚父母，未婚父母的资源如何随着时间的推移而演变？儿童的遗传禀赋如何与他们的环境相互作用以影响他们的结果？社会（非亲生）父母在孩子的生活中扮演什么角色？学校环境如何影响儿童的社交和学业成绩？该研究包括大量儿童和成人，他们是：穷人、种族和少数民族群体成员、移民，并且受到福利、儿童抚养、儿童保育和监禁政策的影响尤为严重。孩子们的家庭结构和儿童保育安排多种多样，而且往往不稳定。因此，该样本非常适合研究多种不利因素如何影响儿童健康和发展。这些数据的独特之处还在于包含有关母亲、父亲及其相互关系的详细信息。尤其是有关未婚父亲的信息，使我们能够跟踪一群在全国调查中经常抽样不足的男性。