Aims and objectives: The aim of this systematic review was to summarize the key findings of
empirical studies assessing the influence of maternal depression on child attachment …

This review summarizes the literature on the relationship between marital conflict and child
maladjustment with an emphasis on variables that qualify, explain the association, or both …

Abstract The Parenting Stress Index (PSI) was not designed for forensic purposes, but
increasingly it is being used in forensic contexts. The author of the PSI (Abidin, 1998) has …

One child in five in America is the child of immigrants, and their numbers increase each year.
Based on an extraordinary interdisciplinary study that followed 400 newly arrived children …

In recent decades, social work and other social science research disciplines have become
increasingly reliant on large secondary data sets, which have increased in both number and …

The empirical literature on the longer‐term adjustment of children of divorce is reviewed
from the perspective of (a) the stressors and elevated risks that divorce presents for children …

In the United States today, one-fifth of the nation's children are growing up in immigrant
homes. In the process of migration, families undergo profound transformations that are often …

This article considers whether the disparate socioeconomic circumstances of families in
which white, black, and Hispanic children grow up account for the racial and ethnic gaps in …

Over the last twenty years it has become recognized that fathers play a crucial role in child
development and subsequent adult status and behaviour. This book presents the state-of …

DIVThis comprehensive book provides a balanced overview of the current research on
divorce. The authors examine the scientific evidence to uncover what can be said with …