Parenting studies

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Useful resources for practitioners working with families

What Scottish parents tell us

Parenting across Scotland

On a regular basis, we ask parents how they get the information and support they need to bring up their children. We also ask about a range of other issues, e.g. the recession, children's behaviour, health visitors and their experiences of parenting.

www.parentingacrossscotland.org/publications/polls-and-surveys.aspx

Growing up in Scotland

Centre for Research on Families and Relationships

This study follows the lives of Scotland's children from infancy through to their teens. It is one of the largest longitudinal studies ever done in Scotland (following 8,000 children annually) and provides information that will help develop policies affecting children and their families in Scotland.

www.crfr.ac.uk/gus

Parenting teenagers

About Families

The first study in the About Families programme looks at what research tells us about relationship and behaviour issues in parenting teenagers.

www.aboutfamilies.org.uk

Parenting and the different ways it can affect children's lives

Joseph Rowntree Foundation

Seven literature reviews of research on parenting looking at what can research tell us about the influence of parenting, especially parent-child relationships in 'ordinary' families.

www.jrf.org.uk/publications/parenting-and-different-ways-it-can-affect-childrens-lives-research-evidence

Diversity, complexity and change in parenting

Joseph Rowntree Foundation

Examines parenting in Britain during early and middle childhood within different social and cultural groups. It also looks at how parenting develops and changes over time.

www.jrf.org.uk/publications/diversity-complexity-and-change-parenting