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Family Instability and Children's Health
Author(s) -
Smith Chelsea,
Crosnoe Robert,
Cavanagh Shan E.
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
family relations
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.772
H-Index - 87
eISSN - 1741-3729
pISSN - 0197-6664
DOI - 10.1111/fare.12272
Subject(s) - variety (cybernetics) , scope (computer science) , translational science , translational research , instability , psychology , sociology , computer science , medicine , social science , physics , pathology , artificial intelligence , mechanics , programming language
Research on family instability is fertile ground for translation into policy and practice. This article describes how basic science in this area can more effectively support work in later stages of the translational research process. To begin, the scope of family instability is outlined with trends, causes, and effects. Next, a conceptual model of the effects of family instability on children's health identifies focal aspects that could be leveraged for translational research: developmental domain, developmental time, mechanisms, and points of variation. The guidelines presented are meant to be general and applicable to a variety of topics and fields in which family scholars aim to improve basic research that can contribute to and move forward a translational family science.