10 articles in this issue
Eija Mirjami Sevón
Children’s rights and their increasing voice in families have made relations between parents and children more democratic. Despite this, child-parent relationships have been claimed to be relationships between unequals from the perspective of power. Often... see more
Tracy L. Robinson-Wood
The social construction of race in Western, and particularly American, contexts has contributed to white people not having to think about the personal meaning of being white and not needing to understand the relevance of race in the lives of people of col... see more
Jolly P. Tumuhairwe Nyeko, Alan Pence, Gordon E. Barnes
This retrospective study of 535 households with 8-year-old children focuses on factors that can influence age-appropriate school entry and subsequent grade-level progression. The households included in this research are from a peri-urban community near Ka... see more
Daniel Potter, Jeremy Redford
The early academic skills of children tend to serve as precursors for later academic successes or struggles. Being exposed to multiple risk factors early in life (e.g., poverty, unsafe or impoverished neighborhood conditions, and language minority status)... see more
Tae-Sik Kim
Seeking to understand the wide use of the Internet as a transnational communications technology, this qualitative study inquired into the Internet use of unaccompanied Korean adolescents. Grounded in the findings of the adolescents’ living contexts, this ... see more
Fabienne Lemétayer, Jean-Baptiste Lanfranchi, Pascal Chastagner
The present study focuses on quality of life in children survivors of cancerthrough the filter of self-regulation by goals. In this respect, the model of Dupuis and its operationalization by Missotten through the Child Quality of Life Systemic Inventory (... see more
Tsu-Yin Wu, JooHyun Lee
A mixed-methods study evaluated the perceived effectiveness of a brief, community-based parenting intervention for Asian immigrant families in the United States. A community sample of twelve parent-child dyads (consisting of both foreign-born and U.S.-bor... see more
Marian J. Rossiter, Sarvenaz Hatami, Dan Ripley, Katherine R. Rossiter
The settlement and adaptation of immigrant and refugee youth in receiving countries is a long-term process with many challenges. In this study, we explored factors that influenced the settlement experiences of 14 immigrant and refugee youth who arrived in... see more
Philippa Collin
A review essay based on Constance Flanagan’s2013book,Teenage Citizens: The Political Theories of the Young. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. ISBN: 978-0-674-04862-1.
James Cairns
In Quality of Life and Intellectual Disability: Knowledge Application to Other Social and Educational Challenges, editors Roy I. Brown and Rhonda M. Faragher (2014), focus on what they characterize as the emerging field of Quality of Life (QOL) research t... see more