Family structures as environmental risk to children's development.
Demographic developments - birth rates are sharply declining in most European countries - have the effect that in very many families children are growing up without brothers or sisters, often with one parent only. This may lead to a lack of social experiences and skills in the next generation.
von Mühlendahl
Karl Ernst
KE
Kinderumwelt and Kinderhospital, Westerbreite 7, 49084 Osnabrück, Germany. muehlend@uminfo.de
D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development; D004777:Environment; D005060:Europe; D005190:Family / Q000208:ethnology / Q000523:psychology*; D005191:Family Characteristics / Q000208:ethnology; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D009863:Only Child / Q000523:psychology; D012307:Risk Factors