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Jeanne Brooks-Gunn

Researcher at Columbia University

Publications -  670
Citations -  79194

Jeanne Brooks-Gunn is an academic researcher from Columbia University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Child development & Poison control. The author has an hindex of 137, co-authored 664 publications receiving 75265 citations. Previous affiliations of Jeanne Brooks-Gunn include Washington University in St. Louis & Johns Hopkins University.

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Associations between Pubertal Hormones and Behavioral and Affective Expression

TL;DR: It is commonly believed that the biological changes of puberty exert a strong influence upon adolescent adaptation as discussed by the authors, and early psychoanalytic theorists hypothesized that hormonal changes cause libidinal (or sexual instinctual) transformations at puberty.
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Unwed Fathers And Fragile Families

TL;DR: At first glance, figures would seem to suggest that American men who father children outside marriage are less attached to their children than European men, but this impression is reinforced by research which shows that a substantial proportion of never married fathers have virtually no contact with their children.
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Do Good Partners Make Good Parents?: Relationship Quality and Parenting in Two-Parent Families

TL;DR: In this article, the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study with a cross-lagged longitudinal design was used to examine how couple relationship quality and parental engagement with children affect one another during the first three years of a child's life for both married and unmarried parents who are living together.
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Family Structure, Family Stability and Early Child Wellbeing

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of family structure at birth from family stability over time on child cognitive, socio-emotional and health outcomes are investigated. But the results are attenuated by child and demographic characteristics.
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Early Puberty and Telomere Length in Preadolescent Girls and Mothers.

TL;DR: Evidence is provided for the association between early puberty and shorter telomeres evidenced by associations in both preadolescent girls and mothers.