Child Development

Violence Prevention and Intervention Programs Violence prevention and intervention efforts for youth have been developed to targ ...

guage, a socially acquired tool, and identified stages that begin with speech for the purpose of requests. This speech eventuall ...

W WAR While the effects of war on adults, and the countries in which they live, have long been studied and fairly well understoo ...

Kaufman, Alan S. Intelligence Testing with the WISC-III. New York: Wiley, 1994. Kaufman, Alan S., and Elizabeth O. Lichtenberger ...

In 1933, as part of the New Deal, President Roosevelt created Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC). Essentially, indiv ...

programs back to the states. Block grants, in the amount of $16.5 billion, representing funds that would have been part of AFDC, ...

WOMEN, INFANTS, AND CHILDREN Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) is a food assis- tance and nutrition program that provides suppl ...

part-time job; by the time of graduation from high school, 80 percent will have held at least one part- time job. The perceived ...

likely to build a foundation upon which to create an adult life in which they can support themselves and their families. Demogra ...

on them. In addition, the accompanying social changes operate to modify the effects of maternal em- ployment on the family and c ...

A working mother helps her child get ready for school. When children are of school age, working families still have to deal with ...

infant during the workweek, they are more highly in- teractive when with them. The studies of attachment have produced mixed res ...

APPENDIX A Access to Health Care Activity Limitation Adolescent Birth Rate Alcohol Use Birth Rates for Unmarried Women Child Po ...

442 APPENDIX A Racial and Ethnic Composition Reading Achievement Serious Violent Juvenile Crime Rate Youth Neither Enrolled in ...

APPENDIX A 443 TABLE 1 Access to Health Care: Percentage of Children Under Age 18 Covered by Health Insurancea by Type of Health ...

444 APPENDIX A TABLE 2 Activity Limitation: Percentage of Children Under Age 18 with Any Limitation in Activity Resulting from C ...

APPENDIX A 445 TABLE 3 Adolescent Birth Rate by Age, Race, and Hispanic Origin, Selected Years 1980– 1998 (Live births per 1,000 ...

446 APPENDIX A TABLE 4 TABLE 5 Alcohol Use: Percentage of Students who Reported having Five or More Drinks in a Row in the Past ...

APPENDIX A 447 TABLE 6 Child Poverty: Percentage of Related Children Under Age 18 Living Below Selected Poverty Levels by Age, F ...

448 APPENDIX A TABLE 7 Childhood Immunizations: Percentage of Children Ages 19 to 35 Months Vaccinated for Selected Diseases by ...