Methods: We conducted a qualitative conventional content analysis research in Shiraz
University of medical sciences in Iran since 2018 through purposive, snowball sampling …

The meritocratic ideal prescribes that universities should admit students based on academic
ability and individual effort. Yet as competition for scarce slots has increased, markets for …

We argue that economists, as well as other social scientists, have increasingly focused on
parenting as a means of building children's human capital and reducing poverty. This is …

Cultural capital theory has long proposed that class location determines teachers' responses
to students, with less, although increasing, attention to race. Drawing on Calarco's definition …

Background Adolescents experience a multitude of vulnerabilities which need to be
addressed in order to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In sub-Saharan …

Early childhood adversity presents risks for enduring negative impacts on both health and
development. Prior research has underscored the potential of early interventions to serve as …

Abstract This article connects Viviana Zelizer's theory of the social meaning of money to
family studies, using the case of American parents' spending on children. We investigate …

The research presented in this volume demonstrates that carefully designed partnerships
hold the potential to improve parents' support for their children's learning and children's …

Parent education programs are important avenues through which parents of children with
developmental delays can learn new skills to help them with child-rearing challenges …

Parenting education is designed to address problems associated with childhood poverty, but
such programs have had limited success. This ethnographic study of a parenting class …