Over the past four decades, income inequality has increased and family structures have
diversified. We argue that family structure has become an important mechanism for the …

We draw on the theory of allostasis to develop an integrative model of the current stress
process that highlights the brain as a dynamically adapting interface between the changing …

Living in poverty places children at very high risk for problems across a variety of domains,
including schooling, behavioral regulation, and health. Aspects of cognitive functioning …

After-school programs, scout groups, community service activities, religious youth groups,
and other community-based activities have long been thought to play a key role in the lives …

Social scientists do not agree on the size and nature of the causal impacts of parental
income on children's achievement. We revisit this issue using a set of welfare and …

The core argument of Jean Anyon's classic Radical Possibilities is deceptively simple: if we
do not direct our attention to the ways in which federal and metropolitan policies maintain …

Çiğdem Kağıtçıbaşı's influential volume was a work of masterful scholarship and field-
defining thought that challenged the existing assumptions in mainstream western …

Relations between nonrelative child care (birth to 4½ years) and functioning at age 15 were
examined (N= 1,364). Both quality and quantity of child care were linked to adolescent …

Despite the fact that most people become parents and everyone who has ever lived has had
parents, parenting remains a mystifying subject about which almost everyone has opinions …

This Social Policy Report considers the importance of young children's emotional
development for their school readiness, suggesting that social scientists can provide policy …