Environmental Health Perspective (2024) Authors: Janean E. Dilworth-Bart, Thea Sankari, Colleen F. Moore Abstract: In recent years, public discourse has increasingly brought institutional and structural racism to the foreground of discussion on the well-being of BIPOC (Black, …
Children and Family
Children’s Attitudes About Transgender Identity Disclosure and Concealment
British Journal of Developmental Psychology (2025) Authors: Daniel J. Alonso, Ashley E. Jordan, Selin Gülgöz Abstract: Supportive peers are crucial for transgender children’s well-being. Transgender children who live in their affirmed gender face decisions surrounding concealment …
Children’s Attitudes About Transgender Identity Disclosure and Concealment
British Journal of Developmental Psychology (2024) Authors: Daniel J. Alonso, Ashley E. Jordan, Selin Gülgöz Abstract: Supportive peers are crucial for transgender children’s well-being. Transgender children who live in their affirmed gender face decisions surrounding concealment and disclosure …
Quality of Life in Autistic Children: Discrepancies Between Self- and Caregiver-Proxy Reports and Associations With Individual Characteristics
Autism Research (2025) Authors: Emily Skaletski, Rebekah Rodriguez, Sharon Gartland, Karla Ausderau, Lauren Bishop, James Li, Brittany Travers Abstract: Quality of life (QoL) is important for everyone and has been identified as a priority for …
Childcare Facility Closure and Exacerbated Gender Inequality in Parenting Time during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Sociology (2024) Authors: Ran Liu and Siyun Gan Abstract: The unprecedented large-scale childcare facility closure during the COVID-19 pandemic led to a dramatic increase in the childcare burden at home, which is shouldered disproportionately by women more …
Mothers, Money, and Multi-Partner Fertility: Understanding Economic Outcomes in Midlife
Children and Youth Services Review (2025) Authors: Cassandra Dorius, Margaret Gough Courtney, Quentin H. Riser Abstract: This study examines how mothers’ childbearing and relationship histories, specifically, whether they have children with multiple partners (multi-partner fertility, …
Exploring the Relationship Between Courtesy Stigma and Life Satisfaction Among Caregivers of Youth with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
Stigma and Health (2024) Authors: Jeong-Eun Lee, Sang Qin, Jinhee Park, and Melissa Ivins-Lukse Abstract: Family caregivers for youth with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities (IDDs) frequently confront challenges extending beyond the management of psychological, physical, cognitive, and …
Family-Centered Decision Making: A Culturally Responsive Collaborative Approach Among Asians Living in the United States
Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal (2024) Authors: Sang Qin, Patrick Corrigan, and Eun-Jeong Lee Abstract: Compared to Western cultures, self-determination needs are expressed and pursued differently in Asian cultures, where interdependence and achieving greater good for the …
Association Between Early Income Variation Around Poverty Thresholds, Income Trajectories, and Birth, Child, and Family Characteristics
Children and Youth Services Review (2023) Authors: Quentin H. Riser, Heather L. Rouse, and Cassandra J. Dorius Abstract: Poverty is experienced by about 15% of children under the age of six in the United States at any given time …
Engaging White Parents to Address Their White children’s Racial Biases in the Black-White Context
Child Development (2023) Authors: Katharine E. Scott, Tory L. Ash, Bailey Immel, MaKayla A. Liebeck, Patricia G. Devine, and Kristin Shutts Abstract: Multiple studies (n = 1065 parents, 625 females, 437 males, 3 nonbinary, 99.06% White; …