Jeanne Brooks-Gunn

TL;DR: A shift in thinking about what youth need for successful (productive) adulthood is behind recent efforts to increase the supply of afterschool activities, such as the federal government’s funding of 21st Century Learning Centers.

TL;DR: Mothers' resources, especially their relationships with biological fathers, account for most of the associations between transitions and parenting stress, with posttransition resources being more important than pretransition resources.

TL;DR: It is concluded that, overall, researchers have found little evidence that home-visiting programs directly prevent child abuse and neglect, but home visits can impart positive benefits to families by way of influencing maternal parenting practices, the quality of the child’s home environment, and children's development.

TL;DR: Children born at lower birth weights experience increased morbidity at early school age, and the results reinforce the importance of postdischarge, early intervention programs to reduce the risk of these later health problems.

TL;DR: A neighborhood-based model of the timing of first adolescent intercourse that emphasizes the impact of neighborhood structural disadvantage and collective efficacy on early sexual activity (at ages 11 to 16) indicates demographic background, family processes, peer influences, and developmental risk factors account for about 30% of the baseline increased likelihood of early sexual onset for African American youths compared with European American youths.