Language and communication development and school readiness of children raised by grandparents or in multi-generational homes.

ABSTRACT:

Background

One in ten U.S. children lives with a grandparent, and more foster children are being placed in kinship care.

Objectives

Our objective was to compare early language and communication development and school readiness among children raised by grandparents (alone or in multigenerational households) to children raised by parents.

Methods

We included in this cross-sectional study children ages 1-5 years from the 2016-2020 National Survey of Children's Health to examine healthy and ready to learn school readiness outcomes and binary language and communication development (2018-2020 data only) by caregiver type (parent, multigenerational, and grandparent-only) with survey-weighted log-binomial regression adjusted for confounders. We stratified by survey years pre-

SUBMITTER: Keim SA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11781512 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature