Mobilizing Children to Aid the War Effort: Advancing Progressive Aims Through the Work of the Child Welfare Committee of the Indiana Woman's Council of National Defense and the Children's Bureau during World War One

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)This thesis examines the motivations of the Woman’s Council of National Defense. It will examine how women in Indiana and Illinois organized their state and local councils of defense as they embraced home-front mobilization efforts. It will also show that Hoosier women, like women across the United States, became involved in World War One home-front mobilization, in part, to prove their responsibility to the government in order to make an irrefutable claim for suffrage. As a result of extensive home-front mobilization efforts by women, the government was able to fulfill its own agenda of creating a comprehensive record of its citizens, thus guaranteeing a roster of citizens eligible for future wartime mobilization. By examining the Child Welfare Committee and the Children’s Year in a broad view, this thesis supports the assertions of historians like Robert G. Barrows, William J. Breen, and Lynn Dumenil, who have shown how Progressive-minded women advanced Progressive reforms by embracing the war effort and using it to their own advantage

Parents\u27 Marital Discord Moderating The Genetic And Environmental Influences On Externalizing Problems

Jarnecke, Amber M. M.S., Purdue University, December 2013. Parents\u27 Marital Discord Moderating the Genetic and Environmental Influences on Externalizing Problems. Major Professor: Susan C. South. Parental marital discord is related to children\u27s externalizing problems at various ages. However, little is known about the mechanisms that explain these associations. The current study assesses the impact of parental marital discord on the etiology of offspring externalizing problems at different ages. Specifically, biometric moderation models were used to test the hypothesis that parental marital discord moderates genetic and environmental influences on offspring externalizing problems at age 11 and age 17. Results suggest that parental marital discord had a moderating effect on the genetic and environmental influences on child\u27s externalizing problems at both ages, though the pattern of moderation differed between cohorts. In the 11-year old cohort, greater genetic influences emerged at lower levels of parents\u27 marital discord. In the 17-year old cohort, greater genetic influences in externalizing problems emerged at lower levels of parents\u27 marital discord and nonshared environmental influences were greatest at the highest levels of discord. These results present a more thorough understanding of the etiological associations between parental marital relationships and offspring externalizing problems as they might differ by age of the child

Personality traits and mental disorders

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Genetic and Environmental Associations between Intimate Partner Violence and the Externalizing and Internalizing Dimensions

Disorders from both the externalizing and internalizing spectra act as risk factors for and consequences of intimate partner violence (IPV); however, it is unclear how these constructs are related at an etiological level. In the current study, behavior genetics methods were used with a nationally representative sample of adults to examine the degree to which IPV shares common genetic and environmental influences with externalizing and internalizing dimensions. Results suggest that IPV does not fit well under heritable factors of internalizing or externalizing vulnerabilities. There is, however, significant nonshared environmental variance common to the externalizing dimension and IPV, even when accounting for internalizing traits. This suggests that focusing efforts on further identifying specific aspects of the nonshared environment (versus genetic or presumably shared environmental targets) may better help us understand that mechanisms that link externalizing traits and disorders to IPV

Human development in western culture: student guide

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