Early Childhood Dynamics Essay

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children whose parents are alcoholics shows those children are at risk for many problems, and that is of great interest to me. It is a very worthy bit of research because it has to do with alcohol abuse and how that condition impacts the ability of children to lead normal healthy lives.

a) The article references the issues children experience when their parents are alcoholics including "…socioemotional" and "behavioral" problems (Edwards, et al., 2006, 409).

b) Edwards, P.E., Eiden, R.D., Colder, C., and Leonard, K.E. (2006). The Development of Aggression in 18 to 48-Month-old Children of Alcoholic Parents. Journal of Abnormal

Child Psychology, 54(3), 409-423.

Part TWO -- Article Summary

ONE: Introduction

This research paper zeros in on the problems that children have whose parents are alcoholics. The study involved 226 families. While it comes as no surprise that children whose parents are alcoholics have problems adjusting to life and society, it is nevertheless quite sad and pathetic to think of a child that is three or four years old (with parents drunk 7 days a week) experiencing antisocial behavior, negative experiences when at play, and being subjected to conflict between his or her parents.

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The parents in this study also suffered from depression. That problem, along with parents whose education was limited, led to "higher levels of aggression at 18 months" than children whose parents were not chemically dependent on alcohol (Edwards, et al., 2006, 409).

TWO: Research Methods: a) A survey using the Child Behavior Checklist (Achenbach & Rescorla, 2000); the UM-CIDI interview process; DSM-IV criteria was used; Infant Characteristics Questionnaire (ICQ) was used which "…yields four factors: Fussy-Difficult, Unadaptable,….....

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