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The mediating processes linking parental emotional distress and changes in adolescent delinquency over time are poorly understood. The current study examined this question using data from 457 adolescents (49.5% female; 89.5% White; assessed at ages 11, 12, and 15) and their parents, part of the national, longitudinal Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (SECCYD). Maternal depression was only directly associated with changes in adolescent delinquency. Paternal depression was indirectly associated with changes in adolescent delinquency through a partner effect on mother–child conflict. The findings indicate the salience of parental depression and mother–child conflict for increases in adolescent delinquency and highlight the importance of including parental actor and partner effects for a more comprehensive understanding of the tested associations.

This article provides an ecological framework for understanding adolescent-initiated parent abuse. We review research on adolescent-initiated parent abuse, identifying sociodemographic characteristics of perpetrators and victims (e.g., gender, age, race/ethnicity, and socioeconomic status [SES]). Bronfenbrenner’s [ 1 ] ecological systems theory is applied, which examines the risk and protective factors for adolescent-initiated parent abuse within micro - (maltreatment, domestic violence, parenting behavior and disciplinary strategies), meso - (peer influence), exo - (media influence), macro - (gender role socialization), and chrono system (change in family structure) levels. Findings from our review suggest that older and White children are significantly more likely to abuse their parents. Females are selective in the target of their aggression, while males target family members in general. Mothers are significantly more likely to be abused than fathers. However, researchers also report variations in the association between SES and parent abuse. Domestic violence and child maltreatment are risk factors, while findings on parenting behavior and disciplinary strategies are mixed. Peer influence, exposure to media violence, gender role socialization, and change in family structure can potentially increase the risk of parent abuse. Practice and research implications are also discussed. An ecological systems framework allows for an examination of how various contexts interact and influence parent abuse behavior, and can provide needed directions for further research.

This book provides readers with brief biographies of some of the most important, prolific, and influential change agents of all time.

Despite the ample literature on crime and violence, little research has been done outside English-speaking developed countries. Colombia has one of the highest homicide rates in the world. In order to identify individual factors related to resilience and vulnerability for violence and offending behavior in Colombia, we explored the life histories of 46 young men from high-risk families and compared those who had committed an offense to those who did not (resilient). The findings show that resilient men (compared to offenders) in Colombia have been less exposed to serious life stress, perceive stronger support from their families, narrate their past histories with greater detail and affect, and perceive greater degrees of control and coherence in their lives. The results are consistent with the existing literature and are interpreted within the framework of attachment theory.

Profiles eleven women through history whose inventions changed the face of the world, from Madam C.J. Walker's hair product industry to Stephanie Kwolek's Kevlar and Hedy Lamarr's breakthroughs in wireless communication.

Not only do we still get to enjoy the emotional support of parents and other family members, we can count on their financial backing as well and well past the age of 18. In addition to providing supportive services for children in foster care, including recreation, mentoringand a residential group home, the foundation hosts a weeklong residential camp and partners with the Atlanta Hawks to provide a basketball mentoring program.

Profiles ten famous leaders from the past whose actions have most altered our world-- for better or for worse.

Breaking the Codes involves a much larger project than simply bringing to light the way fin-de-sicle culture responded to \"the problem\"; indeed, by exploring the multiple ways in which these crimes were told, retold, and reinvented in the public domain, [Ann-Louise Shapiro] reveals how the idea of female crime dominated cultural expressions of grief, suspicion, and concern over the changes occurring in the Third Republic. Consequently, Shapiro asserts, \"the story of female criminality was a story about the pain of social change\" (10). By using gender as a category of analysis, Shapiro integrates the subjects of cultural, social, and political history, and collapses the stark distinctions between public/private spheres found so often in feminist analysis and historical inquiry. Shapiro argues that when historians have divided the discipline into neat categories of \"political,\" \"social,\" and \"women's history,\" they have \"ignored the overlaps and commonalities that linked apparently different aspects of fin-de-sicle culture, and have obscured the ways that contemporaries depended on stable understandings of gender difference to make sense of both public and private life\" (219). Fallen Women, Problem Girls is another excellent example of skillful analysis that uses the lens of gender to find previously hidden struggles among groups of women. Throughout this eloquent narrative, [Regina G. Kunzel] uses the \"secret sisterhood\" of unmarried mothers to explore the tension that developed between evangelical reformers who hoped to save young girls from the \"fall\" of premarital sex and social workers who used established standards to regulate both evangelical women and the sexualized young mother. Employing \"problem\" females as subjects allows for a reassessment of the processes by which professionals worked to legitimize their positions in society at large as well as in their particular fields of interest. Characterized by Kunzel as an \"embattled and protracted transfer of power,\" the process of professionalization became a key site at which \"a coalition of male and female reformers claimed to free themselves from gendered meanings\" (3). [Carolyn Strange] draws her evidence from a significant and diverse compilation of primary sources to find a complex world that was more comfortable with medicalizing single women's work anxieties than with confronting the probability of exploitation by Toronto employers.(3) Toronto's girl problem featured the single female worker and, as Shapiro found in Paris, popular culture \"reconstituted\" her in \"successive images of 'modern' metropolitan life\" (213). This \"problem girl\" evolved from a \"woman adrift\" who feared the city, to a \"working girl\" who enjoyed the city, to a \"businesswoman\" who challenged the authority of the city. Strange argues that the \"relentless sexualization of working girls' behavior\" played a central role in the \"profound cultural transformation\" underway in one of Canada's urban centers (212-13). Experts employed what Strange terms a \"pleasure discipline\" to rein in those single women enjoying Toronto's attractions. Arrest rates prove that Toronto police were more concerned with eliminating \"non-marital, non-procreative sex rather than sexual aggression\"; for instance, arrests connected to homosexual activity or abortion were aimed at halting behaviors and practices associated with loose morals and sexual freedom (146).