https://www.fcd-us.org/helping-parents-helping-children-two-generation-mechanisms/
This issue of Future of Children (Volume 24, Number 1 Spring 2014) assesses past and current two-generation programs. But it goes much further than that. The editors identified six widely acknowledged mechanisms or pathways through which parents, and the home environment they create, are thought to influence children’s development: stress, education, health, income, employment, and assets. Understanding how these mechanisms of development work — and when, where, and how they harm or help — should aid us in designing interventions that boost children’s intellectual and socioemotional development, strengthen families, and help close academic gaps between students from poor and more affluent families.
Contents
Introduction: Two-Generation Mechanisms of Child Development - Ron Haskins, Irwin Garfinkel and Sara McLanahan
Two-Generation Programs in the Twenty-First Century - P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn
Stress and Child Development - Ross A. Thompson
Intergenerational Payoffs of Education - Neeraj Kaushal
Two-Generation Programs and Health - Sherry Glied and Don Oellerich
Boosting Family Income to Promote Child Development - Greg J. Duncan, Katherine A. Magnuson and Elizabeth Votruba-Drzal
Parents’ Employment and Children’s Wellbeing - Carolyn J. Heinrich
Family Assets and Child Outcomes: Evidence and Directions - Michal Grinstein-Weiss, Trina R. Williams Shanks and Sondra Beverly