Helicopter parents and landing pad kids: Intense parental support of grown children
2012 study in the Journal of Marriage and Family on the causes and effects of helicopter parenting .
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Opiate use by U.S. mothers and increases in neonatal abstinence syndrome
2012 study in the Journal of the American Medical Association on the tripling of rates of babies affected by maternal opiate use over the past decade.
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More than 7 million children live with a parent with alcohol problems
2012 report from the U.S. government’s Center for Behavioral Health Statistics and Quality spotlighting data relating to children of alcoholics in the United States.
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Prenatal exposure to pesticides linked to gestational age and birthweight
2012 study in Environmental Health Perspectives on the relationship between maternal prenatal insecticide exposure and a child’s gestational age and birthweight.
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In a down United States economy, fewer births
2011 report by the Pew Research Center exploring the link between per capita income and birth rates, with particular attention to the 2008 recession.
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Evidence for evolution in response to natural selection in a contemporary human population
2011 study for the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on evolution and natural selection in human beings within recent generations.
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Changes in time allocation among American families
2011 paper in the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science on the broad changes to work/life balance in the American family.
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Facebook and the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act
2011 study published in the online journal First Monday on the online practices of 1,007 U.S. households with children, including age of initial registration and parental knowledge.
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Long-term economic costs of psychological problems during childhood
Paper in the Journal of Social Sciences & Medicine on the long-term economic costs associated with childhood psychological illness
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Categorizing risk-taking in children’s play
2011 study in the European Early Childhood Education Research Journal on the risk-taking behaviors that children engage in during play.
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