New data on test scores of five-year olds suggest supporting parents to balance work and care, and providing subsidised preschool daycare, could help to limit…
Child & Family Blog EditorMarch 2019
Articles relating to immigration and child development from some of the world’s top child and family researchers.
Immigration status can be a disadvantage, for example, accessing parent networks around education. But family bonds can be strong and supportive and give some immigrant children an advantage.
Funding parental support for reading is more cost-effective than funding classroom support – and is particularly beneficial for boys.
Professor Simon Calmar AndersenMay 2017
Mexican-American youth are better family members and citizens when they have a strong sense of their ethnic identity, finds study of young people.
Professor George P. KnightMarch 2017
Parents who perceive discrimination against them are more likely to report depressive symptoms and hostility towards their spouses.
Child & Family Blog EditorOctober 2016
Parents of third-generation Hispanic young people rely more on the school’s help. First generation famlies rely more on connections with other parents.
Child & Family Blog EditorOctober 2016
But non-immigrant Black youth did report higher levels of parent support than non-immigrant White youth.
Child & Family Blog EditorOctober 2016
Correlation found between parents’ experience of discrimination and feelings of sadness and low self-esteem on the part of the child.
Child & Family Blog EditorApril 2016
Reading, spelling and comprehension would improve if unauthorized immigrants felt able to enrol their US citizen children in programs such as Head Start.
Dr Kalina BrabeckJanuary 2016
