Parenting and Child/Adolescent Development: Current Updates and Global Perspectives (2nd Edition)
A special issue of Children (ISSN 2227-9067). This special issue belongs to the section "Global Pediatric Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 October 2025 | Viewed by 60
Special Issue Editors
Interests: fertility and family studies; sociology of family; social demography; adolescent health; research methods in social sciences
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Interests: health behaviour of children and adolescents; family culture in health; inequalities in health; biostatistics (multilevel analysis and structural equation models)
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Family dynamics, parenting practices, and parent/caregiver–child relationships have a formative effect and long-term implications for children’s health, well-being, and socioemotional, cognitive, and neurobiological development, including in the later stages of life. Family connectedness, communication, and relationships with parents and family members also provide important role models and contribute to the development of identity and the adoption of skills and behaviours in adolescence. This Special Issue takes a multidisciplinary stance and aims to collect theoretical, methodological, and empirical papers on topics related to the following: the influence of family type, structure, and dynamics; the gendered aspect of parenting and care for children and adolescents, i.e. the role of mothers’ and fathers’ involvement and parenting practices, and their implications for child/adolescent development, health, and well-being; the involvement of extended family members in care for children and adolescents; the role that cultural practices of parenting play in different social contexts; and the role of the institutional and policy contexts, reflected in early-childhood education and care (ECEC) policies, family and youth policies, and services for families, children, and adolescents.
Considering the success and popularity of the Special Issue, ‘Parenting and Child/Adolescent Development: Current Updates and Global Perspectives’, previously published in the journal Children (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/children/special_issues/7839X9JHQQ), we now release a Second Edition that aims to address this topic by inviting scholars to their share findings, perspectives, and approaches in parenting and care for children and adolescents. We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Elitsa Dimitrova
Prof. Dr. Apolinaras Zaborskis
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- child development
- adolescent development
- health, well-being, and health behaviour of children and adolescents
- family type, structure, and family dynamics
- parent–child/adolescent relationships
- parenting practices and involvement in care for children and adolescents
- gendered aspects of parenting and care for children and adolescents
- generational aspects of care for children and adolescents
- early-childhood education and care (ECEC) policies, and family and youth policies
- services for families, children, and adolescents
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