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Bridging the gap between research and public policy to improve the lives of children.

Project MOM

Project M.O.M. (Making the Most of Motherhood) is a prospective longitudinal study of the predictors of problematic parenting, child maltreatment, and birth outcomes in 500 Durham mothers and their young children.  Data include prenatal interviews, official birth records, follow-up phone interviews conducted when the participants' children were
about 15 months old, and official child abuse and neglect records.

Presentations:

Berlin, L. J., Marcus, S. R., & Dodge, K. A. (2005, April).  Effects of
childhood maltreatment on mothers' attributional biases:  Mechanisms underlying intergenerational continuity?.  In L. Berlin (Chair), Breaking the cycle of abuse:  Child maltreatment, attachment, and social information processing.  Symposium conducted at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Atlanta.


 

 

Principal Investigator: Kenneth Dodge

Co-Principal Investigator:
Lisa Berlin

Funding: $50,000 from Provost's Social Science Research Initiative