Summary The UN Sustainable Development Goals provide a historic opportunity to
implement interventions, at scale, to promote early childhood development. Although the …

This article considers the implications for prevention science of recent advances in research
on family poverty and children's mental, emotional, and behavioral health. First, we describe …

A cumulative protection model is proposed to explain why chronic juvenile delinquency may
be amenable to prevention and how early family support and education may help achieve …

The expansion of publicly-funded preschool education is currently the focus of a prominent
debate. At present, 42% of 4-year-olds attend publicly funded preschool (28% attend public …

Publicly funded prekindergarten programs have achieved small‐to‐large impacts on
children's cognitive outcomes. The current study examined the impact of a prekindergarten …

Unauthorized immigrants account for approximately one-fourth of all immigrants in the
United States, yet they dominate public perceptions and are at the heart of a policy impasse …

An in-depth look at the challenges undocumented immigrants face as they raise children in
the US There are now nearly four million children born in the United States who have …

The search for ways to prevent juvenile crime in the United States has become a matter of
national urgency, as the incidence of serious offenses continues to rise. Most prevention …

Current scholarship on the cultural value systems of individualism and collectivism, and the
associated developmental goals of autonomy and relatedness, has moved beyond grand …

Early childhood poverty is a risk factor for lower school achievement, reduced earnings, and
poorer health, and has been associated with differences in brain structure and function …