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Title: Capital at Home Affecting Children's Behavior Problems in the United States and Great Britain
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Parcel, Toby L. Campbell, Lori A. |
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Capital at Home Affecting Children's Behavior Problems in the United States and Great Britain Presented: Montreal, QC, Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, August 2006 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79 Publisher: American Sociological Association Keyword(s): Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Cross-national Analysis; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Human Capital; Maternal Employment; NCDS - National Child Development Study (British); Social Capital Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. We analyze the effects of family social, human and financial capital on child behavior problems in two societies. This is possible by comparing a sample of 5-13 year old children from the 1994 NLSY with a similar sample from the 1991 NCDS British Child. In both societies, male children, those with health problems, and those with divorced mothers are at higher risk, while those with stronger home environments are at reduced risk. However, British children are at reduced risk the higher the mothers' mental abilities, and are at increased risk in they live in single parent homes or have higher numbers of siblings, effects absent in the United States. U.S. children are at reduced risk if they have nonwhite mothers, if the mother was reared in an intact family, and if the mother works low part-time hours, effects absent in Great Britain. We conclude that, while some of the specific effects differ, parents are important in both societies in promoting child social adjustment, and that evidence for the notion that the more developed welfare state in Great Britain may substitute for capital at home in promoting child social adjustment is weak. |
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Parcel, Toby L. and Lori A. Campbell. "Capital at Home Affecting Children's Behavior Problems in the United States and Great Britain." Presented: Montreal, QC, Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, August 2006. |