Poster Session 3: Children and Youth, Adolescence, Parenting, Transition to Adulthood, Life Course

Thursday, March 30 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM Pasadena Room Below Lobby

1.	The Role of Disability on Risky Sexual Behaviors among American Teenagers  •  Carrie L. Alexandrowicz, Brown University; Afra R. Chowdhury, Brown University

2.	Self-Perceived HIV/AIDS Risk among Youth in Cape Town, South Africa  •  Kermyt G. Anderson, University of Oklahoma; Ann M. Beutel, University of Oklahoma

3.	Family Configurations of Disability in the 2000 Census  •  Roger Avery, Brown University; Dennis Hogan, Brown University

4.	Family and Child Strengths that Promote Early Reading and Math Proficiency in Low-Income, Minority Preschoolers  •  Heather J. Bachman, University of Pittsburgh; Natalia Palacios, Northwestern University; P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale, Northwestern University

5.	Obesity among Young Children of Immigrants  •  Kelly Balistreri, Bowling Green State University

6.	Does Child Labor Affect Children's School Performance in Brazil?  •  Marcio Eduardo Garcia Bezerra, Universidade de São Paulo; Ana L. Kassouf, Universidade de São Paulo; Mary Arends-Kuenning, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Fathers Who Feed Their Infants and Other Facets of Early Child Care Involvement among African-American Men from Low-Income Families  •  Judith B. Borja, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Barbara Goldman, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Margaret Bentley, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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A Life Course Study about Menarche Made Feasible by the Health and Demographic Surveillance System in Matlab, Bangladesh  •  Alinda Bosch, Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI); Frans Willekens, Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI); Abdullah M. Baqui, Johns Hopkins University; Jeroen van Ginneken, Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI)

9.	The Significance of Geography in the Transition to Adulthood  •  Elise Bowditch, University of Washington; Suzanne Withers, University of Washington

10.	Timely Immunization Series Completion among Children of Immigrants  •  Victoria Buelow, Portland State University

11.	Sexual Activity of Affluent Adolescents: The Differential Importance of Family Socialization and Social Bonds  •  Lori A. Burrington, Ohio State University

12.	The Second Time Around: Social Fathers in Fragile Families  •  Sharon Bzostek, Princeton University

13.	Adolescent Romance and Sexual Behavior: Examining the Role of Family Structure Duration, Parenting Practices, and Gender  •  Shannon E. Cavanagh, University of Texas at Austin; Sarah R. Crissey, University of Texas at Austin

14.	The Downside of the Dating Scene: Gender Differences in the Effect of Romantic Climate on Academic Outcomes  •  Sarah R. Crissey, University of Texas at Austin

15.	When Do Family Formation Intentions Emerge? Evidencing Distinctness among Early Adolescent Youth  •  Jacinda K. Dariotis, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

16.	Who Are the Language Minority Students of the ECLS-K? Demographic Predictors of English Language Acquisition  •  Rachel E. Durham, Pennsylvania State University

17.	Instability and Its Relationship to Children's Well-Being: 2003  •  Jane L. Dye, U.S. Census Bureau; Annette Rogers, U.S. Census Bureau

18.	Effects of Support from Kin and Nonkin on the Well-Being of Children in Single-Parent Households  •  Esther Friedman, University of California, Los Angeles

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Comparative Adolescences: Adolescents' Demographic Statuses in Developing Countries  •  Elizabeth Fussell, Tulane University; Claudia Buchmann, Ohio State University; Carlos Costa-Ribeiro, Rio de Janeiro State University (UERJ); Silvia E. Giorguli Saucedo, El Colegio de México; Emily Hannum, University of Pennsylvania; Flora J. Nankhuni, Harvard University; Florencia Torche, City University of New York

20.	Learning After School - The Impacts of Parent's Education and Social and Economic Status on Children's Learning Attitudes and Activities  •  Xiang Gao, University of Washington

21.	Stability and Change in Older Mothers’ and Fathers’ Parenting of Adult Children: Results from the Last Quarter of the 20th Century  •  Roseann Giarrusso, California State University, Los Angeles; Du Feng, Texas Tech University

22.	The Influence of Health on the Academic Achievement and Educational Attainment of Adolescents: Evidence from the NLSY97  •  Steven A. Haas, Harvard University; Nathan Fosse, Harvard University

23.	Gender and Race Differences in Early Adolescent Delinquency  •  Daphne C Hernandez, University of Michigan

24.	Do Battered Wives in India Conceive and Bear Children Who Are Less Likely to Survive?  •  Nan Johnson, Michigan State University

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Patterns of Global Tobacco Use among Young People and Implications for Future Chronic Disease Burden in Adults  •  Nathan R. Jones, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC); Charles Warren, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC); Samira Asma, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

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Effect of Women's Nutritional Transition on Infant Survival in India: A Two-Stage Logit Model Analysis  •  Niyati Joshi, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS); C.P. Prakasam, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS),Mumbai,India; Nandita Saikia, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS)

27.	Violating Trust? Barriers to Condom Use among Male Adolescents in Steady Relationships in Recife, Brazil  •  Fatima Juarez, El Colegio de México; Teresa Castro Martin, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)

28.	Children's Living Arrangements and Experiences of Family Disruption in Sweden, 1975-2000  •  Sheela Kennedy, University of Wisconsin at Madison; Elizabeth Thomson, University of Wisconsin at Madison

29.	Trends in Sexual Behavior of Young Kenyan Women  •  Shane Khan, ORC Macro

30.	Can Capital Investment Relieve Children from Labor?: Consequences of Poverty Alleviation Program in Indonesia  •  Chikako Yamauchi, Australian National University

31.	Family Transitions and Adolescents' Depression  •  Wei Zeng, Arizona State University; Scott T. Yabiku, Arizona State University

32.	Parent-Offspring Conflict: Reproductive Effort of Karo Batak Mothers in Rural North Sumatra  •  Geoffrey C Kushnick, University of Washington

33.	Domestic Violence and the Socioemotional Development of Low-Income Preschoolers  •  Brenda J. Lohman, Iowa State University; Elizabeth Votruba-Drzal, University of Pittsburgh; Christine Li-Grining, University of Chicago; P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale, Northwestern University

34.	Tracking Child Well-Being in U.S. Cities: Results from the American Community Survey  •  Mark S. Mather, Population Reference Bureau; Kerri L. Rivers, Population Reference Bureau

35.	Predictors of Premarital Sexual Initiation among Adolescents in Nigeria  •  Blessing Mberu, Brown University

36.	Different Paths, Different Destinations: A Life Course Perspective on Educational Transitions  •  Carolina Milesi, University of Wisconsin at Madison

37.	Indices of Child Well-Being at the National and State Level  •  Kristin Moore, Child Trends; Laura Lippman, Child Trends; Sharon Vandivere, Child Trends; Bill O'Hare, Annie E. Casey Foundation; Christina Theokas, Child Trends; Margot Bloch, Child Trends

38.	The Role of Household Environment on Adolescent Health  •  Andrew Muriuki, University of Missouri at Columbia

39.	Being a Little Emperor or Empress Matters Equally: The One Child Policy and Child Nutrition in China  •  Shu Wen Ng, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

40.	Child Labor: The Role of Socioeconomic Development and Poverty Reduction in Viet Nam  •  Phuong L. Nguyen, University of Minnesota; Quan Le, Seattle University

41.	Living Opportunity of Girls—A Revisit to Prenatal/Postnatal Gender Disparities in China  •  Jianlin Niu, University of Western Ontario; Yaqiang Qi, University of California, Los Angeles

42.	Individual, Household, and Community Factors Associated with Child Vulnerabilities in HIV/AIDS Affected Countries  •  Florence Nyangara, Futures Group International

43.	School Enrollment in Lesotho: Do Grandmothers Matter?  •  Erin Parker, Brown University

44.	Chasing a Greased Pig: How Can We Get a Handle on Adolescent Dating and Romantic Relationships?  •  Kelly Raley, University of Texas at Austin; Kurt A. Gore, University of Texas at Austin; Jennifer Pearson, University of Texas at Austin

45.	Friendship Network Structure and Quality and Adolescent Sexual Relationships  •  Beth Rustenbach, Pennsylvania State University

46.	Predicting Parental Separation: Do Parent-Child Relationships Matter?  •  Holly Schindler, Boston College

47.	Nonresident Fathers and Adolescent Problem Behavior: Explaining the Link  •  Mindy E. Scott, Pennsylvania State University

48.	Forming a Union Plus Kids: The Role of Children in Stepfamily Formation  •  Carrie E. Spearin, Brown University

49.	Longterm Consequences of Teenage Childbearing: Results from the CDS-II  •  Michelle Sternthal, University of Michigan

50.	Family Structure, Food Insecurity, and the Well-Being of Children and Adults in Low-Income Households  •  Susan D. Stewart, Iowa State University; Steven Garasky, Iowa State University

51.	Smoking Behavior among Youth in a Developing Country: The Case of Indonesia  •  John Strauss, University of Southern California; Firman Witoelar, Yale University; Pungpond Rukumnuaykit, Mahidol University

52.	Racial and Ethnic Differences in Consequences of Parental Divorce for American Adolescents  •  Yongmin Sun, Ohio State University; Yuanzhang Li, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research

53.	Children and Their Teen Fathers: Examining the Associations of Prenatal and Birth Behaviors in the ECLS-B  •  Allison K.H. Tarkow, University of Maryland; Natasha Cabrera, University of Maryland

54.	Growing up in Vietnam: Mass Mobilization, Modernization, and Trends in Transition to Adulthood  •  Puk Bussarawan Teerawichitchainan, Population Council

55.	Do Perceptions of Friends’ Behaviors Affect Age at First Sex? Evidence from Cebu, Philippines  •  Ushma D. Upadhyay, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; Michelle J. Hindin, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

56.	On the Non-Random Distribution of Educational Deprivation of Children in India  •  Motkuri Venkatanarayana, Centre for Development Studies

57.	Are Better Educated Fathers More "Involved"? The Education Effect on Paternal Time with Children  •  Rong Wang, University of Maryland

58.	What Determines Adolescent Smoking and Why Do White Adolescents Smoke More? Evidence from National Longitudinal Study of Adolescents  •  Ming Wen, University of Utah; Heather VanDuker, University of Utah; Lenora Olson, University of Utah

59.	Parental Job Loss and Children's Educational Attainment  •  Patrick Wightman, University of Chicago

60.	Population Migration, Family Background, and Children’s School Enrollments in China, 1990-2000  •  Xiaogang Wu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

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