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Transition From Primary to Secondary School: Igniting Attendance and Engagement Among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Students Through National Policy Reform

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Australia's Closing the Gap reform aims to address disparities experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. There are specific targets focussed on key educational transitions; yet, the transition to secondary education is not a targeted priority.
Azhar Hussain Potia, Kai W. Wheeler, Tracy Woodroffe, Karen Thorpe   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

RecView: an interactive R application for locating recombination positions using pedigree data

BMC Genomics, 2023
Background Recombination reshuffles alleles at linked loci, allowing genes to evolve independently and consequently enhancing the efficiency of selection.
Hongkai Zhang, Bengt Hansson
doaj   +1 more source

Caregiver Reports on the Needs and Experiences of Children Impacted by Parental Incarceration: Results From an Australian Survey

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Children experiencing parental imprisonment are known to be among the most overlooked in our community. They often experience multiple and compounding disadvantages, with long‐term consequences, but receive no specialised assistance. Knowledge about these children and their families is lacking in Australia and is required to inform policy ...
Catherine Flynn, Lana Battaglia, Lorana Bartels, Susan Dennison, Susy Harrigan, Lee Huggins, Sofia Grage‐Moore   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

The magnitude and timing of grandparental coresidence during childhood in the United States

Demographic Research, 2017
Background: The likelihood that a US child will live with a grandparent has increased over time. In 2015, nearly 12Š of children lived with a grandparent. However, the likelihood that a child will ever live with a grandparent is not known.
Mariana Amorim, Rachel Dunifon, Natasha Pilkauskas   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

A comparison of the differences in the way parents and grandparents interact with children and their effects on children’s creative performance

Frontiers in Psychology, 2022
As grandparents’ involvement in parenting becomes more common, it is valuable to understand the differences between grandparenting and parenting and how these differences affect children.
Ye Lu, Yilai Pei, Weiguo Pang
doaj   +1 more source

Grandparent Prenatal Tobacco, Alcohol, Coffee, and Tea Consumption and Autism in the Third Generation

Autism Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Exogenous prenatal exposures may affect neurodevelopment across multiple generations. We investigated grandmother and grandfather smoking, alcohol, coffee, and tea consumption during pregnancy in relation to their grandchildren's risk of autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
Michelle Pearl, Kimberly Berger, Piera M. Cirillo, Nickilou Y. Krigbaum, Victor Poon, Gayle C. Windham, Barbara A. Cohn   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Grandchildren’s spatial proximity to grandparents and intergenerational support in the United States [PDF]

Demographic Research
BACKGROUND: Grandparents regularly spend time with their grandchildren and may also depend on their adult children for help as they age. These patterns suggest that many family members live close enough to one another to provide in-person assistance ...
Olivia Healy, Rachel Dunifon
doaj   +1 more source

‘School is their whole world’: Teachers' perspectives on loneliness among children and adolescents from England and mainland China

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract As front‐line observers and active participants in pupils' daily lives, teachers closely monitor pupils' social interactions, emotional states and behavioural changes. Their unique perspective enables them to detect problems in the social lives of their pupils that may not be immediately visible to peers, parents or mental health professionals.
Yixuan Zheng, Charlotte Bagnall, Caroline Bond, Elizabeth Birchinall, Pamela Qualter   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Families as Contexts for Adolescents’ Socioemotional Competencies: Contributions of the Nuclear Family and Grandparents

Societies
Extended families are a growing influence in adolescent development, including the nuclear family and grandparent–grandchild relationship; still, the simultaneous contribution of these relational contexts to the development of socioemotional competencies
Isabel Miguel, Paula Vagos, Andreia Nunes, Lénia Carvalhais   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Do mothers also “manipulate” grandparental care? [PDF]

PeerJ, 2018
Paternity uncertainty has proven to be a robust ultimate hypothesis for predicting the higher investment in grandchildren observed among maternal grandparents compared to that of the paternal grandparents. Yet the proximate mechanisms for generating such
Mari V. Busch, Sandra Olaisen, Ina Jeanette Bruksås, Ivar Folstad   +3 more
doaj   +2 more sources