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Marital Quality and Parent-Adolescent Relationships: Dataset and Codebook
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Author(s): Elizabeth C. Hair |
Organization(s): Child Trends |
This data set is based on variables from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY), 1997 cohort, rounds 1-8. The NLSY-97 is a national representative sample of adolescents who were ages 12-16 in 1997 and were surveyed over time. This data set is limited to respondents who were 12 to 14 years old in December and whose parents were married at the time of the interview. While the NLSY-97 has a broad array of variables, the data set is limited to those variables used in the analysis for this project. More information about the analyses can be found in the individual project reports and research briefs. A list of these products can be found at http://aspe.hhs.gov/hsp/08/RelationshipStrengths/. The SAS program for creating all of the variables and the variable codebook are provided with the final analytic dataset. |
Published: January, 2009 |
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Marital Quality and Parent-Adolescent Relationships: Components of Relationship Strengths in Married Couple Families
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Author(s): Elizabeth Hair and Kristen Moore with Randal D. Day, Dennis K. Orthner, and Kelleen Kaye |
Organization(s): NORC and Child Trends |
The purpose of this research brief is to explain the relationship context of adolescents who live in married couple families. Specifically, the marital quality of the adolescents' biological parents (and step-parents) is assessed by examining how supportive and conflict behaviors combine within the couple relationship. How support and conflict operate in parent-adolescent relationships is also examined. These separate measures of couple and parent-adolescent relationships are then combined to form new categories that describe the relationship context within which adolescents transition into young adulthood. The National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1997 cohort, a nationally representative survey of adolescents, was used to conduct a latent class analysis and determine the class structures for adolescent perceptions of parent marital quality and for adolescent perceptions of their relationship with their parents. These class structures were then combined and used as independent variables in the study analysis. [8 PDF pages] |
Published: January, 2009 |
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Marital Quality and Parent-Adolescent Relationships: Effects on Adolescent and Young Adult Well-Being
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Author(s): Elizabeth Hair and Kristen Moore with Randal D. Day, Dennis K. Orthner, and Kelleen Kaye |
Organization(s): NORC and Child Trends |
While a number of studies have examined the effects of marital disruption on adolescent well-being, few have studied the implications of marital conflict and relationship quality for child well-being in married-couple families. This represents an important gap in the research, since most children live in married couple families. The present study uses data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1997 cohort (NLSY97), a nationally representative sample of adolescents who are being followed into adulthood to examine how parent marital quality among intact families interacts with the quality of the parent-adolescent relationships to predict physical health, mental health, substance use, sexual activity, religious activity, and educational outcomes in middle adolescence and early adulthood. Results indicate that adolescents whose parents have a high quality relationship and who have a good parent-adolescent relationship with both parents consistently had the best outcomes. Ironically, these types of parent/child situations are among the least studied. [10 PDF pages] |
Published: January, 2009 |
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Ensuring Quality in Contracted Child Welfare Services
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Author(s): Nancy Pindus, Erica Zielewski, Charlotte McCullough, and Elizabeth Lee |
Organization(s): Planning and Learning Technologies with subcontractors The Urban Institute and McCullough and Associates |
In 2006, ASPE funded the Child Welfare Privatization Initiatives Project to provide information to state and local child welfare administrators who are considering or implementing privatization reforms. The project has produced papers on a range of topics providing insights about factors that should be considered when approaching or improving upon privatization efforts. This sixth and final paper is intended to assist public agency child welfare administrators to better monitor and assure quality of contracted services within the context of the agencys overall quality assurance/improvement system. The paper explains the importance of planning contract monitoring and accountability systems and training staff to be effective contract monitors. It describes the types of monitoring activities, as well as methods for collecting and using information. The paper provides examples of some of the decisions that must be made about what will be measured, and how child welfare agencies have worked collaboratively with providers to develop realistic and constructive approaches to contract monitoring. [32 PDF pages] |
Published: December, 2008 |
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HHS Funding for Abstinence Education, Education for Teen Pregnancy and HIV/STD Prevention, and Other Programs that Address Adolescent Sexual Activity
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Organization(s): U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) |
The report presents a detailed breakdown comparing Departmental funding for abstinence education, adhering to the A-H definition, with other Departmental funding used to prevent unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections. [19 PDF pages] |
Published: December, 2008 |
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Marital Quality and Parent-Adolescent Relationships: Effects on Educational Outcomes for Youth
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Author(s): Dennis K. Orthner and Hinckley Jones-Sanpei (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) with Elizabeth Hair & Kristen Moore, Child Trend; Randal D. Day, Brigham Young University; and Kelleen Kaye, NORC |
Organization(s): NORC and Child Trends |
This research examines the effects of parental marital quality and the quality of the parent-child relationship on the educational progress of adolescents. Previous research indicates that family structure and economic capacity have significant effects on educational achievement and high school graduation rates. Few studies, however, have examined the effects of the quality of the parental relationship on educational outcomes. This study is built on the bioecological and social capital theories of human development that suggest that the capacity for child and youth development is enhanced when their primary relationships are supportive and provide them with social assets that encourage human capital development. The study uses data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1997 cohort (NLSY97), a nationally representative sample of adolescents who are being followed into adulthood. The findings indicate that family stability and living with two biological parents is a stronger predictor of high school graduation than parent marital quality and the quality of the parent-child relationship. But the data also indicate that parent marital quality and the quality of the parent-child relationship has a strong and positive effect on post-secondary education access among those who do graduate from high school. These findings are interpreted in light of the contribution of relationship quality to further educational involvement and the implications this has for workforce development and successful labor force competition in a global economy. [31 PDF pages] |
Published: December, 2008 |
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Marital Quality and Parent-Adolescent Relationships: Effects on Sexual Activity Among Adolescents and Young Adults
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Author(s): Kelleen Kaye with Randal D. Day, Elizabeth Hair, Kristen Moore, and Dennis K. Orthner |
Organization(s): NORC and Child Trends |
The link between growing up outside of an intact family, and the likelihood of engaging in risky sexual behaviors as an adolescent has been explored extensively. But fewer studies examine the age of onset of sexual activity and the likelihood of risky sexual behaviors among adolescents within intact families, specifically married-parent families, and which elements of married-parent families seem to function as protective factors for adolescents. This study takes an extensive look at relationship characteristics within married-parent families — that is, the parent marital relationship, the youth-parent relationship, and the interaction of the two — to identify the family context that might influence adolescents sexual activity. Parental marital relationships were characterized both with respect to level of supportive qualities as well as degree of conflict, and the youth's relationship with each parent was characterized as positive or negative. The study uses data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1997 cohort (NLSY97), a nationally representative sample of adolescents who are being followed into adulthood. Predictors include youth reports on the quality of parent marital relationship and quality of parent-adolescent relationships (i.e., mother-adolescent and father-adolescent), marital structure, and a number of contextual covariates and control variables. [42 PDF pages] |
Published: November, 2008 |
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Adopted Children with Special Health Care Needs:
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Author(s): Matthew D. Bramlett and Laura F. Radel |
Organization(s): National Center for Health Statistics and ASPE |
This research brief presents information on adopted children with special health care needs, using data from the 2005-2006 National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs (NS-CSHCN). The analysis takes advantage of questions in the survey that allow adopted children in the sample to be grouped and compared by adoption type, that is, foster care adoptions, international adoptions, and domestic private adoptions. Findings provide a descriptive profile of adopted children with special health care needs; explore ways in which adopted children with special health care needs are similar to and different from other children with special health care needs; and describe their health status, health conditions, and health care access and utilization across adoption types. [30 PDF pages] |
Published: October, 2008 |
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Pathways to Adulthood and Marriage: Teenagers' Attitudes, Expectations, and Relationship Patterns
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Author(s): Robert G. Wood, Sarah Avellar, Brian Goesling |
Organization(s): Mathematica Policy Research (MPR) |
This report examines potential precursors of the changes in adult marriage patterns in recent decades. It draws on data from four large national surveys to examine the experiences and attitudes of teenagers to gain a better understanding of factors that influence their views of marriage and their relationship choices in adulthood. The report analyzes teenagers' initial exposure to, and experiences with, romantic relationships and marriage, as well as their general attitudes toward marriage. It also examines marriage and relationship patterns among a recent cohort of young adults and identifies factors in adolescence associated with the likelihood of choosing various relationship pathways in early adulthood. [82 PDF Pages] |
Published: October, 2008 |
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Evaluating Privatized Child Welfare Programs: A Guide for Program Managers
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Author(s): Jacqueline Smollar |
Organization(s): Planning and Learning Technologies |
In 2006, ASPE funded the Child Welfare Privatization Initiatives Project to provide information to state and local child welfare administrators who are considering or implementing privatization reforms. The project will produce six papers on a range of topics providing insights about factors that should be considered when approaching or improving upon privatization efforts. This fourth paper provides guidance on evaluating child welfare privatization initiatives. It highlights the key features of program evaluation and describes the tasks that program managers can perform to ensure successful and effective evaluation. It also includes a brief discussion about the value of cost-effectiveness analysis and the kinds of information that cost analyses can generate. [PDF - 34 pages] |
Published: August, 2008 |
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