Center for Families

Harnessing the power of faculty, staff, students, alumni, and friends to improve our quality of life.

June 19, 2022

Emerging Ideas. Families Together: Supporting family resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic

The program was widely used and received favor-able feedback. Participants reported less stress in weeks when they engaged in more program activities, and more family connectedness in weeks when they spent more time engaged in program materials.

June 17, 2022

Sexual assault and harassment (SAH) victimization disparities between sexual minority and heterosexual Chinese youth

Sexual assault and harassment (SAH) has become an increasing global concern that disproportionately impacts gender and sexual minority youth, yet research is scarce outside Western nations. In addition, sexual assault and sexual harassment are closely related experiences in both academic...

June 15, 2022

Making flexibility more I-Deal: Advancing work-life equality collectively

As the COVID-19 pandemic illuminated, work-life equality, the ability of workers to have equal access to, opportunity to use, and benefit from flexible working arrangements is a rising form of job inequality. We examine how existing flexibility i-deals can be...

June 14, 2022

Children and parents’ physiological arousal and emotions during shared and independent e-book reading: A preliminary study

Although e-books allow young children to read independently, children could be missing out on opportunities to develop positive emotional associations with reading. The current study explored whether there are differences in emotions and physiological arousal when parents and children read...

June 14, 2022

Caring for nontraditional families: Kinship, foster, and adoptive

Information about nontraditional (kinship, foster, and adoptive) families is typically scattered or overlooked both in nursing education and nursing practice settings. Using a nursing-centric, population-focused lens, the current state of nontraditional families in the United States is briefly described. An...

June 14, 2022

Opportunities to support caregivers feeding infants and toddlers through Extension and Nutrition Education

Infants and toddlers experience rapid growth and development, which necessitates changes in feeding practices throughout this period. We aimed to explore infant/toddler feeding topics that Extension and nutrition educators typically discuss with caregivers through formal curricula and informal conversations.

June 14, 2022

Exploring the associations between child temperament, the home food environment, and body mass index in four-year-old children

Given the stability of obesity from childhood into adulthood, it is critical to identify risk factors in early life. The objective of this study was to examine the associations between child temperament, the home food environment, and BMI in four-year-old...

June 14, 2022

Grit Was Associated With Food Insecurity Among Low Income, At-Risk Rural Veterans

Rural veterans have poorer health, use health care services less often than their urban counterparts, and have more prevalent food insecurity than average U.S. households. Food insecurity and resource use may be influenced by modifiable psychological attributes such as grit,...

June 8, 2022

Interior Design decisions and legal compliance with the Lactation at Work Law

Combining breastfeeding with full-time maternal employment requires workplace accommodations that enable lactating workers to express breastmilk throughout the workday. The Lactation at Work law mandates such accommodations, but does not address room accessibility or room content. Lactation spaces that might...

June 1, 2022

Early predictors of language skills at 3 years of age vary based on diagnostic outcome: A baby siblings research consortium study

While previous work has identified the early predictors of language skills in infants at elevated familial risk (ER) and low familial risk (LR) for autism spectrum disorder (ASD), no studies to date have explored whether these predictors vary based on...