Families Count Effects on Child and Adolescent Development [Hardcover]

This book examines effects that family has on the social and emotional development of teens.This book is concerned with the question of how families matter in young people's development - a question of obvious interest and importance which has serious policy implication. A series of key current topics concerning families are examined by the top international scholars in the field.This book is concerned with the question of how families matter in young people's development - a question of obvious interest and importance which has serious policy implication. A series of key current topics concerning families are examined by the top international scholars in the field.This book is concerned with the question of how families matter in young people's development - a question of obvious interest and importance to a wide range of readers, which has serious policy implication. A series of key current topics concerning families are examined by the top international scholars in the field, including the key risks affecting children, individual differences in their resilience, links between families and peers, the connections between parental work and children's family lives, the impact of childcare, divorce, and parental separation, grandparents, and new family forms such as lesbian and surrogate mother families. The latest research findings are brought together with discussion of policy issues raised.Introduction; Part I. Risk and Resilience: 1. How families matter in child development: reflections from research on risk and resilience Ann S. Masten and Anne Shaffer; 2. The promotion of resilience in the face of adversity Michael Rutter; 3. Identifying risk and protective factors for healthy child development Arnold Sameroff; Part II. Peer and Parents: 4. The influence of family and peer relationships in the development of competence during adolescence W. Andrew Collins and Glenn I. Roisman; 5. Toward a dynamic developmental model of the role of parents and peers in early onsel8