Early Childhood (under 5 years)

Meta-analysis involved 92 studies that compared children living in divorced single-parent families with children living in continuously intact families on measures of well-being.

Research on the prevention of depressive symptoms in children and adolescents was reviewed and synthesized with meta-analysis.

Reviewed 60 studies of depressive symptoms among children and adolescents with chronic medical problems.

The present study examined Navy mothers’ reports about their own and their children’s psychological symptoms.

Families, as social systems, can be considered “resilient” in ways that parallel descriptions of individual resilience.

Mortality among black infants in the United States is approximately twice that among white infants.

The increasing number of women in the military, especially married women and mothers, is forcing the military to accommodate populations it did not have to deal with in the past.

Fathers have been neglected in investigations of the development, prevention, and treatment of anxiety and anxiety disorders in children and adolescents.

Compared with resident fathers, nonresident fathers are more likely to be unemployed or underemployed and less likely, when they are employed, to have access to flexible work arrangements.

Often undetected and poorly managed, maternal depression and child adjustment problems are common health problems and impose significant burden to society.