Families With Young Children: A Review of Research in the 1990s

By David H. Demo, M. Cox. 2000

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Subfields: Demography, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Family characteristics and intergenerational conflicts over the Internet (2006, background): “Families suffering financial distress are more likely to be more punitive and coercive and to report more intergenerational conflicts (Demo & Cox 2000).”
Parental Psychological Distress, Parent - Child Relationship Qualities, and Child Adjustment: Direct, Mediating, and Reciprocal Pathways (2005, background): “It will also be important to replicate with other samples as broader influences such as socioeconomic status and neighborhood effects are increasingly noted (Demo & Cox, 2000).”
The Internal Structure and Ecological Context of Coparenting: A Framework for Research and Intervention (2003, background): “Although the transition to parenthood has been a focus of many studies (e.g., Demo & Cox, 2000), much of the research has focused on the effects of this period on the couple relationship and the well-being of the individual parents.”
Gaining a Child: Comparing the Experiences of Biological Parents, Adoptive Parents, and Stepparents (2004, background): “Hence, adding a first child to a household is consistently associated with an initial decline in marital quality (e.g., Crohan, 1996; Demo & Cox, 2000), an increased risk for psychological symptoms (Cowan & Cowan, 1995; Cox, Paley, Burchinal, & Payne, 1999), and shifts in intergenerational…”
Costs and Rewards of Children: The Effects of Becoming a Parent on Adults' Lives (2003, background): “A traditional view is that becoming parents is a crisis for married couples, because the marital relationship faces tremendous changes when the first child arrives (LeMasters, 1957; for a review see Demo & Cox, 2000).”
Poverty, family resources and children's early educational attainment: The mediating role of parenting (2011, background): “An extensive research literature, including reviews by Shonkoff and Phillips ( 2000b ), Demo and Cox ( 2000 ), Desforges and Abouchaar ( 2003 ) and Gutman et al .”
Maternal sensitivity, its relationship with child outcomes, and interventions that address it: a systematic literature review (2020, background): “A recent summary of research on families with children found that research concentrated on five major topics, one of these being the importance of maternal sensitivity for children’s attachment security and subsequent social/emotional adjustment (Demo & Cox, 2000).”
Reproductive Behavior and Personality Traits of the Five Factor Model (2011, unknown): “…personality change (Feldman & Aschenbrenner, 1983; Jokela et al., 2009) and parents with young children have higher psychological distress than their non-parent peers (Demo & Cox, 2000), but it is currently unknown whether these effects have long-lasting consequences for personality development.”
A Review of the Literature on the Social and Economic Determinants of Parental Time (2008, background): “It is important to keep in mind, however, that poverty and financial distress usually negatively affect the ability that parents have to provide support, nurturance and control and not just the amount of time they are spending with their children ( Demo and Cox 2000; Elder et al. 1992).”
A Review of the Relationship between Parental Involvement and Secondary School Students' Academic Achievement (2011, background): “authoritarian and permissive styles (as well as indifferent styles) are negatively related to academic achievement [18, 21–24].”
Poverty and maternal responsiveness: The role of maternal stress and social resources (2008, background): “Children across a wide range of age, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds benefit from parents attuned to their emotional and instrumental needs (Bornstein, 1989; Bradley, Corwyn, Burchinal, McAdoo, & Garcia-Coll, 2001; Demo & Cox, 2000; Shonkoff & Phillips, 2000).”