Middle Childhood (5-12 years)

Peer victimization is detrimental to children's and adolescents' mental health and well-being.

Military fathers are being deployed, and leaving their families, for greater lengths of time and more frequently than ever before. The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of recent deployment on parenting stress in U.S. Navy fathers with young children.

Deployment is often a stressful time for military families, and U.S. Service members have been deployed more often and for longer periods of time since 2003 and the start of OIF. This study synthesizes 21 qualitative articles related to the process of deployment among military families.

The authors used data from Waves 1 and 2 of the National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH) to test the generality of the links between parenting practices and child outcomes for children in two age groups: 5-11 and 12-18.

The associations between parenting practices and child outcomes are well documented, however, the generalizability of the association across different race/ethnicity, family structure, education, gender, and family income is still unknown.

The aim of this research was to compare parental stress, coping strategies and social support perceived in families of children with low functioning autism (n = 8), high functioning autism (n = 10), Down syndrome (n = 12) and parents of typically developing children (n = 20).

Parents of children with developmental disabilities face many stressors and may cope in a variety of ways.

This study examined whether several aspects of the timing and duration of parental deployment are detrimental to child developmental, emotional, and behavioral health in a random, national probability sample of Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps families with a child between the ages of birt

There are aspects of parental deployment that impact child development and emotional health. The association between deployment and child well-being was examined in this study by interviewing and collecting survey data from military families with a child under 10 years old.

Parents’ early life stressful experiences have lifelong consequences, not only for themselves but also for their children. The current study utilized a sample of military families (n 266) including data from both active-duty and civilian parents and their adolescent children.