Child Development

REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGIES Reproductive technologies encompass a group of clinical laboratory procedures involving the extracor- ...

fancy are the mother’s workload and the number and type of alternative caretakers available to the mother. The amount of attenti ...

autonomy and sense of self, and sense of meaning and purpose. The study of resilience holds the key to helping strengthen childr ...

after delivery in Rh-negative women. Although 99 percent effective in preventing Rh disease, reports from the 1990s indicate tha ...

Cranston, Maurice. The Noble Savage: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1754– Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991. Cranston, Maurice ...

farming has decreased markedly over the past fifty years, leading the young and better educated to mi- grate to urban settings. ...

S SCHIZOPHRENIA See: MENTAL DISORDERS SCHOLASTIC APTITUDE TEST The Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) is a standardized college admi ...

organizations), and that they fail to serve the most needy and difficult to educate. Others caution that ex- isting programs are ...

used to describe the social behavior of infants and young toddlers who have not yet developed certain rudimentary social-cogniti ...

Taste is a chemical sense that allows humans to process information through different sensations—such as sweet or salty—as well ...

Sensory Systems in Concert The sensory systems work in concert with each other to enable an infant to engage with the environ- m ...

The nature of sex education can vary widely from one school district to another. Programs can range from abstinence-based models ...

clude pregnancy prevention information (except for abstinence), sources of family planning services, the most likely time for pr ...

Adolescent Sexual Behavior Overall, fewer high school students are choosing to have sexual intercourse than in the past. The Ala ...

TABLE 1 dents (13.4%) were significantly more likely than white students (4.3%) to have been pregnant or to have gotten someone ...

wrote that the prevalence of sexual minority youth (e.g., gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender) was unde- termined. Yet it is imp ...

Rubin, K. H., and Jens B. Asendorpf, eds. Social Withdrawal, Inhibi- tion and Shyness. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1992. Do ...

A balance between friendliness and conflict in sibling relationships can provide a unique opportunity for children to develop im ...

however, marital problems and parental depression are far less likely to affect sibling relationship quality. The same is true f ...

There is no cure, but there have been significant ad- vances in life expectancy and treatment. See also: GENOTYPE Bibliography C ...