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Material and Emotional Support across Generations
Young people today face an array of hurdles finding work and settling into permanent relationships. Parents are a mainstay of support in helping young adults make these transitions successfully. Economic disparities are at a peak in the U.S., and families may transmit and exacerbate those disparities if parents from different economic backgrounds provide differing levels of support. Indeed, new research by...
Good Mothers Provide Foundations for Future
by Deborah Jacobvitz, Professor and Chair of the Department of Human Development and Family Sciences
This past Sunday was a celebration of all things motherhood, and rightfully so because research is showing just how important mothers truly are.
As the chair of the Department of Human Development and Family Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin, I along with my colleagues have followed parents as they have raised their children. We observed family functioning as children matured from infancy through adolescence. Decades of research have pointed to one important conclusion: The quality of parenting a child receives from his or her mother affects how well he or she is prepared to be a parent.
