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| The principle objective of the Family Management Project is to explore varied ways
that parents respond to risk and opportunity in dangerous neighborhoods and the
consequences of parental styles of management for adolescent development. The project
draws on data collected from nearly 500 households predominantly residing in some 40
census tracts supplemented by in-depth interviews of about 10 percent of the families. The guiding hypothesis in the study is that parenting strategies are in part a response to local opportunities and dangers as well as family and individual resources. We are exploring whether the same sorts of parenting have different consequences for adolescent development depending on the availability of resources and the concentration of problems within communities. Beyond this specific hypothesis, our team is trying to distill the components that make for successful parenting by looking at how parents mobilize individually and collectively to avert the omnipresent risks and cultivate the sparse resources in their communities. |
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