E. Michael Foster

TL;DR: Current public policies directed toward vulnerable youth in transition are reviewed and problems are found in four areas: eligibility criteria that exclude youth from services that might benefit them, inadequate funding for transition services, a lack of coordination across service systems, and inadequate training about young-adult developmental issues for service professionals.

TL;DR: Examination of relations between race, locality, neighborhood characteristics, family context, and child problem behaviors, and parental warmth, appropriate and consistent discipline, and harsh interactions revealed that initial race differences in warmth and consistent Discipline disappeared when neighborhood influences were considered.

TL;DR: The review of published literature identified 13 studies, most conducted on existing databases by using diagnostic and medical procedure codes and focused on health care costs, which estimated annual COI of ADHD in children and adolescents at $14,576 per individual (2005 dollars).

TL;DR: Public expenditures on youths with CD are substantially larger than for youths with closely related conditions, reflecting the importance of prevention and early treatment for the disorder.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assess family responses to economic change and their consequences from the perspective of the household economy in middle-class families, using survey and observational data on two-parent families in a midwestern rural county.