BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Current assessments of adverse childhood experiences
(ACEs) may not adequately encompass the breadth of adversity to which low-income urban …

The family is of exceptional and lifelong importance to the health of adolescents. Family
structure has been linked to children's and adolescents' health and well-being; a nuclear …

We describe the promise of the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (FFCWS) for
developmental researchers. FFCWS is a birth cohort study of 4,898 children born in 1998 …

The children of different-sex married couples appear to be advantaged on a range of
outcomes relative to the children of different-sex cohabiting couples. Despite the legalization …

Using data on 67,558 children (age 0 to 17) from the 1999 and 2002 rounds of the National
Survey of America's Families, the association between complex living arrangements and …

We examined co-parenting alliance based on information provided by 57 incarcerated
parents and their corresponding child caregivers who took part in the Messages Project, in …

Considering the relationship between maternal and child factors that influence child health
is key to understanding child wellbeing. Several studies have considered the contributions …

In order to understand the prevalence of school-aged childhood obesity in the United States
and suggest better methods to prevent and treat the public health problem, we examined it …

This study investigated relationships between low-income children's health and six factors:
social disorganization, social structural, social relationship, parent health/mental health …

Pandemic fatigue is a growing public health concern of the lingering COVID-19 pandemic.
Despite its widespread mass media coverage, systematic empirical investigations are …