Source: Child Trends – March 21, 2012
Child Trends has published a new research brief, Families and Child Outcomes: The Importance of Emotional Support for Mothers (March 2012), which finds that emotional support for mothers improves outcomes for children, even when controlling for family structure, income, gender, race/ethnicity, and child’s age. Children whose mothers received emotional support were more likely to be engaged in school and exhibit social competence and less likely to display internalizing behaviors than children whose mothers did not receive emotional support.
