Jeanne Brooks-Gunn

TL;DR: It is hypothesized that neighborhood structural disadvantage and diminished collective efficacy have consequences for the prevalence of early adolescent multiple sexual partnering and findings from random effects multinomial logistic regression models of the number of sexual partners reveal evidence of neighborhood effects on adolescent higher-risk sexual activity.

TL;DR: An instrument to measure attitudes concerning menstruation was developed and the factor analytic structure of the original MAQ sample was replicated on a second sample to examine the relationship of attitudes about menstruation to self‐reports of menstrual‐related symptomatology.

TL;DR: Today's teenage parents may be less likely than were previous cohorts of adolescent mothers to overcome the handicaps of early childbearing, a trend that could portend the growth of an urban underclass.

TL;DR: This paper investigated the sustained effects into kindergarten and grade 1 of Project Head Start for disadvantaged black children and found that children who attended Head Start maintained educationally substantive gains in general cognitive/analytic ability, especially when compared to children without preschool experience.

TL;DR: Early Head Start has been shown to promote cognitive, language, and social-emotional development of children as discussed by the authors. But the program also has important impacts on many aspects of parenting and the home environment, and it supports parents' progress toward economic self-sufficiency.