title: Changes in families and getting youngsters to the dentist.
abstract: Bureau of the Census surveys for the mid-1990s, with projections into the early years of the next century, indicate a continuing increase in the numbers of single-parent families, grandparent supervised children, families with two employed parents and a wide variety of child care arrangements. Pediatric dentists increasingly will need to deal with juggled parental work schedules, unavailability of parents/guardians and any number of difficulties resulting from changed family structures in both traditional and nontraditional patient populations.
authors.affiliation: Department of General Dentistry, State University of New York at Stony Brook 11794-8706, USA.
authors.forename: H B
authors.initials: HB
authors.lastname: Waldman
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D019140:Dental Care for Children / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005190:Family / Q000208:ethnology; D005191:Family Characteristics / Q000208:ethnology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015406:Single Parent / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012922:Social Change; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology; D014931:Women, Working / Q000706:statistics & numerical data