Maternal and Child Health/Family Wellness

Adopted Children with Special Health Care Needs: Characteristics, Health, and Health Care by Adoption Type. Data

Data are drawn from the National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs, 2005-2006 (NS-CSHCN). The NS-CSHCN is a random-digit-dial telephone survey of households with children, conducted as a module of the State and Local Area Integrated Telephone Survey (SLAITS) by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for

Indicators of Child, Family, and Community Connections. Parental employment by family structure

The majority of families with children have at least one parent who is employed. In 2002, forty-four percent of families with children had two employed parents either full- or part-time; 25 percent had one employed and one nonemployed parent; and 3 percent had two nonemployed parents. Twenty-one percent of families with children had one employed s

Adopted Children with Special Health Care Needs: Characteristics, Health, and Health Care by Adoption Type. Methods

Adopted Children with Special Health Care Needs: Characteristics, Health, and Health Care by Adoption Type. Improving Data on Adopted Children

Since 2004, the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, the Administration for Children and Families, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics have collaborated on several interrelated activities intended to expand survey data about the health and well-being of adopted chil

Adopted Children with Special Health Care Needs: Characteristics, Health, and Health Care by Adoption Type. Health Conditions of Adopted Children

Previous research has found that although most adopted children are in good health, they are at increased risk across a range of developmental domains.

The Changing Population of Adopted Children

Adopted Children with Special Health Care Needs: Characteristics, Health, and Health Care by Adoption Type. The Changing Population of Adopted Children

Within the public child welfare field, finding adoptive families for older children and those with significant emotional and physical needs has been an emphasis in recent years (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services [US DHHS], 2005).

Indicators of Child, Family, and Community Connections. Family, Work, and Child Care

Adopted Children with Special Health Care Needs: Characteristics, Health, and Health Care by Adoption Type. Background

Adopted Children with Special Health Care Needs: Characteristics, Health, and Health Care by Adoption Type

This research brief presents information on adopted children with special health care needs, 1 using data from the 2005-2006 National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs (NS-CSHCN).

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Indicators of Child, Family, and Community Connections. Contact with nonresident parents

Overall, 60 percent of children from non-intact families had some contact with their nonresident fathers and 78 percent had contact with their nonresident mothers in 1997. Children living with a parent with higher levels of education were more likely to have had contact with their nonresident parent. Seventy-four percent of children whose resident

Indicators of Child, Family, and Community Connections. Time spent with parents

In two-parent families, children under age 13 spent an average of 1 hour and 46 minutes engaged in activities with their fathers and 2 hours and 21 minutes doing so with their mothers on a daily basis in 1997. This was substantially more time than children in single-parent families spent with their fathers (25 minutes) and mothers (1 hour and 16 m

Indicators of Child, Family, and Community Connections. Parental awareness of adolescents' friends and activities

Mothers are more likely than fathers to be aware of their adolescents' close friends, as well as their activities, regardless of family structure. Data for 2000 indicate that mothers were slightly more likely to be aware of their adolescent's friends and activities when they resided with the biological father of the child (57 percent) than when th

Indicators of Child, Family, and Community Connections. Positive parent-adolescent relationships

Overall, in 1999, the majority of adolescents reported positive relationships with their resident parents (more than 60 percent). Positive relationships between adolescents and their parents, both mothers and fathers, were more common when both resident parents were the biological parents of the child than when there was a single biological parent

Indicators of Child, Family, and Community Connections. Parental warmth and affection with younger children

The majority of parents with children under the age of 13 demonstrate some expression of warmth and affection to their child daily, such as hugging or showing them physical affection, telling them that they love them, and telling them that they appreciate something that they did. Mothers are more likely than fathers to report showing their childre

Indicators of Child, Family, and Community Connections. Family Functioning

Indicators of Child, Family, and Community Connections. Births to unmarried teens

Birth rates among unmarried teens rose from 27.6 in 1980 to 45.8 in 1994, and have since declined to 35.4 in 2002. Among unmarried females ages 15 to 17 the birth rate increased from 20.6 in 1980 to 31.7 in 1994, and then declined to back to 1980 levels to 20.8 by 2002. Among unmarried young women ages 18 and 19, the birth rate increased from 39.0

Indicators of Child, Family, and Community Connections. Families with grandparents who live nearby

Fifty-six percent of families with resident children ages 24 and under lived within 50 miles of a grandparent in 1992-1993. Families with younger children are more likely than families with older children to live near a grandparent. While 63 percent of families with children ages 0 to 5 lived near a grandparent in 1992-1993, 57 percent of famili

Indicators of Child, Family, and Community Connections. Family structure change

Among families with children between the ages of 2 and 17, twenty-two percent experienced a change in the composition of their family between 1999 and 2001. Family structure change refers to any entrance or exit of related and non-related adults and children from the family, including the birth of a child. It also includes changes in marital statu

Indicators of Child, Family, and Community Connections. Family structure

The percentage of children under age 18 living with two married parents declined between 1980 and 2002, from 77 percent to 69 percent. Despite this long-term decrease, however, the percentage of children living with two married parents has been relatively stable since 1995.

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