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Title: Poverty, Parenting, and Children's Mental Health
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1. McLeod, Jane D.
Shanahan, Michael J.
Poverty, Parenting, and Children's Mental Health
American Sociological Review 58,3 (June 1993): 351-366.
Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2095905
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79
Publisher: American Sociological Association
Keyword(s): Behavior; Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Children, Temperament; Health Factors; Health, Mental/Psychological; Health/Health Status/SF-12 Scale; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Parenthood; Poverty; Racial Differences; Socioeconomic Status (SES)

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Using data from the 1986 Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth data set, explores the relationships among current poverty, length of time in poverty, maternal parenting behavior, and children's mental health for 1,733 children of 1,344 mothers. Studies of children's poverty need to focus on family processes. (SLD)
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McLeod, Jane D. and Michael J. Shanahan. "Poverty, Parenting, and Children's Mental Health." American Sociological Review 58,3 (June 1993): 351-366.