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：
7845817
负责人：
Sara McLanahan
金额：
$ 22.32万
依托单位：
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2009
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2009-09-30 至 2011-09-29
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7845817
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

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.

脆弱家庭和儿童福祉研究是一项纵向出生队列研究，涉及约 3700 名儿童未婚父母和 1200 名已婚父母及其子女。我们寻求资金来：1）执行 9岁时评估儿童的健康、语言能力、学业成绩、行为问题和社会关系； 2）与孩子的亲生父母进行访谈，更新信息家庭资源和父母关系； 3) 收集初级唾液样本进行基因分型照顾者和儿童； 4) 采访与孩子同住的社会父母； 5) 收集信息儿童教师关于儿童成果和学校特征的信息。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，家庭资源如何影响孩子的健康和发展？资源如何相对于已婚父母，未婚父母会随着时间的推移而演变吗？孩子的遗传是怎样的禀赋与环境相互作用以影响其结果？社交（非生物学）父母在孩子的生活中玩耍？学校环境如何影响孩子的社交和学术成果？该研究包括大量儿童和成人，他们是：穷人、种族和族裔成员少数群体、移民以及受福利、儿童抚养、儿童保育和监禁政策。孩子们的家庭结构和儿童保育工作多种多样且往往不稳定安排。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与发展。这些数据的独特之处还在于包含有关母亲、父亲及其与孩子的关系的详细信息。彼此。尤其是有关未婚父亲的信息，使我们能够追踪一群男性，他们是国家调查中经常抽样不足。