Ann Buchanan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3656771 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ann Buchanan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ann |
| FAMILY NAME | Buchanan |
| SIGNATURE | BUCHANAN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9945-5157 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 148 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Brothers and Sisters
Brothers and Sisters
Explanatory effects of young childhood caregiving environment, child’s pro-social behavior, and child self-regulation skills on adolescent problem behavior
Grandparenting and adolescent well-being
This article reviews the major findings of two large-scale studies on adolescent–grandparent relationship conducted in the UK and in Israel. The Israeli study followed the UK study, deepening the investigation of some of the major themes uncovered in the British study. Both studies reveal that grandmothers and grandfathers are highly involved in adolescents’ lives and that this involvement is associated with increased adolescent well-being. The s…
Twenty-first century grandparents
This special issue on Grandparents highlights the increasing role that they are taking in raising the next generation, not only in the United Kingdom, but across the world. Why are grandparents playing a major role in rearing the next generation? Firstly, older people are living longer and are healthier so they are more available. Also rising divorce rates, increases in single parenthood, more working mothers and the globalisation of work has fue…
Meeting the needs of unaccompanied children in Greece
This article summarizes the situation of unaccompanied child (UAC) refugees in Greece in 2017/2018. It notes the number and characteristics of these children, the challenging situation in responding to their needs in a country where many native children are living in poverty and deprivation following the EU austerity measures. This article also outlines the legal obligations and EU directives for looking after UACs. Finally, it summarizes the cha…
Grandfathers
Grandparents in contemporary industrialized societies invest substantial amounts of time, money and care in the grandchildren. For example, in the USA in 2007, 2.5 million grandparents were responsible for meeting most of the basic needs of one or more of the grandchildren who lived in their household (US Census Bureau 2009). Across eleven European countries, 44% of grandparents reported to have provided childcare for their grandchildren in the l…
Impact and knowledge mobilisation
This paper, written by the current Chair of the Evaluation Committee of Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), highlights the findings from the impact studies commissioned by the Committee over the last six years. The first part of the paper outlines the context to the new focus on ‘impact’. In particular it notes how developments in knowledge mobilisation, especially in Canada, came together with the rise of evidence-based policy and pract…
They’ve Always Been There for Me’
With diversifying families, increased life expectancy, growing numbers of dual‐worker households and higher rates of family breakdown, grandparents are now playing an increasing role in their grandchildren’s lives. Despite growing importance there has been little empirical research exploring how grandparental involvement impacts on young people’s well‐being. This national study, which includes a survey of 1596 children (aged 11–16) and in‐depth i…
Filling the Parenting Gap? Grandparent Involvement With U.K. Adolescents
With people living longer and more mothers working, there is some evidence that grandparents are more involved in rearing the next generation. Although there is research in the United Kingdom on kinship care, there is no national research on the extent of grandparent involvement from the perspective of young people. This, the first national survey of 1,478 adolescents in England and Wales, demonstrates the very considerable amount of informal car…
Grandparenting and adolescent adjustment in two-parent biological, lone-parent, and step-families.
There is limited research on the links between grandparenting and adolescents' well-being, especially from the perspective of the adolescents. The study examined whether grandparent involvement varied in two-parent biological, lone-parent, and step-families and whether this had a different contribution to the emotional and behavioral adjustment of adolescents across different family structures. The study is based on a sample of 1,515 secondary sc…
Adolescents' perspectives on relationships with grandparents
A comparison between Japanese and British research papers in key academic journals
Children aged 0–13 at risk of social exclusion
Including the Socially Excluded
This paper is based on a literature review undertaken for the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister in 2004 (Buchanan et al., 2004) on the impact of government policy in England and Wales for children aged from birth to thirteen at high risk of social exclusion as recorded up until May 2004. It describes the concept of ‘social exclusion’; its meaning for children; the aims of government policy; the specific impact of government policy on vulnerable…
Handbook of Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties
Divorcing Children
Childhood families of homeless and poor adults in Britain
Early father's and mother's involvement and child's later educational outcomes
Background: Few studies have investigated the individual long-term contributions that mothers and fathers make to their children's schooling.Aims: (1) To explore the role of early father involvement in children's later educational attainment independently of the role of early mother involvement and other confounds, (2) to investigate whether gender and family structure moderate the relationship between father's and mother's involvement and child'…
The role of father involvement in children's later mental health
Data on 8441 cohort members of the National Child Development Study were used to explore links between father involvement at age 7 and emotional and behavioural problems at age 16, and between father involvement at age 16 and psychological distress at age 33, controlling for mother involvement and known confounds. Father involvement at age 7 protected against psychological maladjustment in adolescents from non‐intact families, and father involvem…
Life satisfaction in teenage boys
It has been suggested that bullying at school and low social support are related to relatively poor mental health in schoolchildren. Based on data from 1344 adolescent boys aged 13–19 years in Britain, this study explored whether father involvement, as an underestimated—in the related research—source of social support, can protect against low levels of satisfaction with life. Multiple regression analysis showed that low father involvement and pee…
What predicts traditional attitudes to marriage
This study, using data from 5,689 cohort members of the National Child Development Study, explores the impact of both structure of parenting family and contextual factors on attitudes towards marriage at age 33. Traditional attitudes to marriage were positively related to religiosity and negatively related to high non‐verbal skills in childhood and smoking or drinking in adulthood but were unrelated to the structure or background of parental fami…
Recovery’ after age 7 from ‘externalising’ behaviour problems
Research note. Parental family structure and adult expectations of familial support in times of emotional need
Data from the National Child Development Study were used to examine the relationship between parental background and expectations of familial emotional support in adulthood. After adjusting for social class, employment, qualifications and presence of children in adulthood, and relationships with parents in adolescence, this study showed that men from birth families who had experienced disadvantage and men from stepfamilies who had had a public ca…
Are Care Leavers Significantly Dissatisfied and Depressed in Adult Life
Using data from the National Child Development Study (NCDS), Ann Buchanan explores the links between children who have been ‘in care’ (as they were known pre-Children Act 1989), life satisfaction in adult life, psychological problems at 16 and depression at 33. In adult life, children who had been in care were less satisfied with their lives and were significantly more at risk of psychological problems at age 16 and depression at age 33. Despite …
Early father's and mother's involvement and child's later educational outcomes
Background: Few studies have investigated the individual long-term contributions that mothers and fathers make to their children's schooling.Aims: (1) To explore the role of early father involvement in children's later educational attainment independently of the role of early mother involvement and other confounds, (2) to investigate whether gender and family structure moderate the relationship between father's and mother's involvement and child'…
Adolescents' perspectives on relationships with grandparents
Twenty-first century grandparents
This special issue on Grandparents highlights the increasing role that they are taking in raising the next generation, not only in the United Kingdom, but across the world. Why are grandparents playing a major role in rearing the next generation? Firstly, older people are living longer and are healthier so they are more available. Also rising divorce rates, increases in single parenthood, more working mothers and the globalisation of work has fue…
Life satisfaction in teenage boys
It has been suggested that bullying at school and low social support are related to relatively poor mental health in schoolchildren. Based on data from 1344 adolescent boys aged 13–19 years in Britain, this study explored whether father involvement, as an underestimated—in the related research—source of social support, can protect against low levels of satisfaction with life. Multiple regression analysis showed that low father involvement and pee…
Filling the Parenting Gap? Grandparent Involvement With U.K. Adolescents
With people living longer and more mothers working, there is some evidence that grandparents are more involved in rearing the next generation. Although there is research in the United Kingdom on kinship care, there is no national research on the extent of grandparent involvement from the perspective of young people. This, the first national survey of 1,478 adolescents in England and Wales, demonstrates the very considerable amount of informal car…
Are Care Leavers Significantly Dissatisfied and Depressed in Adult Life
Using data from the National Child Development Study (NCDS), Ann Buchanan explores the links between children who have been ‘in care’ (as they were known pre-Children Act 1989), life satisfaction in adult life, psychological problems at 16 and depression at 33. In adult life, children who had been in care were less satisfied with their lives and were significantly more at risk of psychological problems at age 16 and depression at age 33. Despite …
Meeting the needs of unaccompanied children in Greece
This article summarizes the situation of unaccompanied child (UAC) refugees in Greece in 2017/2018. It notes the number and characteristics of these children, the challenging situation in responding to their needs in a country where many native children are living in poverty and deprivation following the EU austerity measures. This article also outlines the legal obligations and EU directives for looking after UACs. Finally, it summarizes the cha…
Children aged 0–13 at risk of social exclusion
Young people's views on being looked after in out-of-home-care under The Children Act 1989
Grandparenting and adolescent well-being
This article reviews the major findings of two large-scale studies on adolescent–grandparent relationship conducted in the UK and in Israel. The Israeli study followed the UK study, deepening the investigation of some of the major themes uncovered in the British study. Both studies reveal that grandmothers and grandfathers are highly involved in adolescents’ lives and that this involvement is associated with increased adolescent well-being. The s…
Handbook of Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties
Divorcing Children
Childhood families of homeless and poor adults in Britain
Recovery’ after age 7 from ‘externalising’ behaviour problems
Measuring outcomes for children
Explanatory effects of young childhood caregiving environment, child’s pro-social behavior, and child self-regulation skills on adolescent problem behavior
Impact and knowledge mobilisation
This paper, written by the current Chair of the Evaluation Committee of Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), highlights the findings from the impact studies commissioned by the Committee over the last six years. The first part of the paper outlines the context to the new focus on ‘impact’. In particular it notes how developments in knowledge mobilisation, especially in Canada, came together with the rise of evidence-based policy and pract…
Including the Socially Excluded
This paper is based on a literature review undertaken for the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister in 2004 (Buchanan et al., 2004) on the impact of government policy in England and Wales for children aged from birth to thirteen at high risk of social exclusion as recorded up until May 2004. It describes the concept of ‘social exclusion’; its meaning for children; the aims of government policy; the specific impact of government policy on vulnerable…
Learning from Each other — Professional Gypsy Foster Parents in Hungary
Throughout the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Romania, a large ethnic minority group, generally known as Gypsies, has for generations suffered from severe discrimination and social ostracism. Ann Buchanan learnt, during visits to child care establishments in the region, that up to ninety per cent of children in state care were children of Gypsy origin. The tragedy is that these children have little chance of obtaining work on leaving care …
Life under the Children Act 1989
One of the central principles of the Children Act is to hear the voice of the child, yet little account has been taken in the extensive monitoring programme of the views of young people in residential and foster care. Ann Buchanan presents the views of some young people on life under the Act
Gypsy Children in Post‐Communist Eastern Europe
Far generations Gypsies have suffered from oppression and discrimination. Five centuries of slavery, attempted genocide during the Holocaust, forced assimilation and separation under communism have all been part of their history. In some areas of Eastern Europe, 90 per cent of children in state care are of Gypsy origin. In post‐communist Eastern Europe economic recession has brought a new wave of anti‐Gypsy feeling and violence. In such a climate…
Learning from Each other — Professional Gypsy Foster Parents in Hungary
Throughout the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Romania, a large ethnic minority group, generally known as Gypsies, has for generations suffered from severe discrimination and social ostracism. Ann Buchanan learnt, during visits to child care establishments in the region, that up to ninety per cent of children in state care were children of Gypsy origin. The tragedy is that these children have little chance of obtaining work on leaving care …
Young people's views on being looked after in out-of-home-care under The Children Act 1989
Measuring outcomes for children
Are Care Leavers Significantly Dissatisfied and Depressed in Adult Life
Using data from the National Child Development Study (NCDS), Ann Buchanan explores the links between children who have been ‘in care’ (as they were known pre-Children Act 1989), life satisfaction in adult life, psychological problems at 16 and depression at 33. In adult life, children who had been in care were less satisfied with their lives and were significantly more at risk of psychological problems at age 16 and depression at age 33. Despite …
What predicts traditional attitudes to marriage
This study, using data from 5,689 cohort members of the National Child Development Study, explores the impact of both structure of parenting family and contextual factors on attitudes towards marriage at age 33. Traditional attitudes to marriage were positively related to religiosity and negatively related to high non‐verbal skills in childhood and smoking or drinking in adulthood but were unrelated to the structure or background of parental fami…
Recovery’ after age 7 from ‘externalising’ behaviour problems
Research note. Parental family structure and adult expectations of familial support in times of emotional need
Data from the National Child Development Study were used to examine the relationship between parental background and expectations of familial emotional support in adulthood. After adjusting for social class, employment, qualifications and presence of children in adulthood, and relationships with parents in adolescence, this study showed that men from birth families who had experienced disadvantage and men from stepfamilies who had had a public ca…
Life satisfaction in teenage boys
It has been suggested that bullying at school and low social support are related to relatively poor mental health in schoolchildren. Based on data from 1344 adolescent boys aged 13–19 years in Britain, this study explored whether father involvement, as an underestimated—in the related research—source of social support, can protect against low levels of satisfaction with life. Multiple regression analysis showed that low father involvement and pee…
The role of father involvement in children's later mental health
Data on 8441 cohort members of the National Child Development Study were used to explore links between father involvement at age 7 and emotional and behavioural problems at age 16, and between father involvement at age 16 and psychological distress at age 33, controlling for mother involvement and known confounds. Father involvement at age 7 protected against psychological maladjustment in adolescents from non‐intact families, and father involvem…
Divorcing Children
Childhood families of homeless and poor adults in Britain
Early father's and mother's involvement and child's later educational outcomes
Background: Few studies have investigated the individual long-term contributions that mothers and fathers make to their children's schooling.Aims: (1) To explore the role of early father involvement in children's later educational attainment independently of the role of early mother involvement and other confounds, (2) to investigate whether gender and family structure moderate the relationship between father's and mother's involvement and child'…
Handbook of Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties
Children aged 0–13 at risk of social exclusion
Including the Socially Excluded
This paper is based on a literature review undertaken for the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister in 2004 (Buchanan et al., 2004) on the impact of government policy in England and Wales for children aged from birth to thirteen at high risk of social exclusion as recorded up until May 2004. It describes the concept of ‘social exclusion’; its meaning for children; the aims of government policy; the specific impact of government policy on vulnerable…
A comparison between Japanese and British research papers in key academic journals
Grandparenting and adolescent adjustment in two-parent biological, lone-parent, and step-families.
There is limited research on the links between grandparenting and adolescents' well-being, especially from the perspective of the adolescents. The study examined whether grandparent involvement varied in two-parent biological, lone-parent, and step-families and whether this had a different contribution to the emotional and behavioral adjustment of adolescents across different family structures. The study is based on a sample of 1,515 secondary sc…
Adolescents' perspectives on relationships with grandparents
They’ve Always Been There for Me’
With diversifying families, increased life expectancy, growing numbers of dual‐worker households and higher rates of family breakdown, grandparents are now playing an increasing role in their grandchildren’s lives. Despite growing importance there has been little empirical research exploring how grandparental involvement impacts on young people’s well‐being. This national study, which includes a survey of 1596 children (aged 11–16) and in‐depth i…
Filling the Parenting Gap? Grandparent Involvement With U.K. Adolescents
With people living longer and more mothers working, there is some evidence that grandparents are more involved in rearing the next generation. Although there is research in the United Kingdom on kinship care, there is no national research on the extent of grandparent involvement from the perspective of young people. This, the first national survey of 1,478 adolescents in England and Wales, demonstrates the very considerable amount of informal car…
Impact and knowledge mobilisation
This paper, written by the current Chair of the Evaluation Committee of Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), highlights the findings from the impact studies commissioned by the Committee over the last six years. The first part of the paper outlines the context to the new focus on ‘impact’. In particular it notes how developments in knowledge mobilisation, especially in Canada, came together with the rise of evidence-based policy and pract…
Grandfathers
Grandparents in contemporary industrialized societies invest substantial amounts of time, money and care in the grandchildren. For example, in the USA in 2007, 2.5 million grandparents were responsible for meeting most of the basic needs of one or more of the grandchildren who lived in their household (US Census Bureau 2009). Across eleven European countries, 44% of grandparents reported to have provided childcare for their grandchildren in the l…
Grandparenting and adolescent well-being
This article reviews the major findings of two large-scale studies on adolescent–grandparent relationship conducted in the UK and in Israel. The Israeli study followed the UK study, deepening the investigation of some of the major themes uncovered in the British study. Both studies reveal that grandmothers and grandfathers are highly involved in adolescents’ lives and that this involvement is associated with increased adolescent well-being. The s…
Psychology (24 works) · Developmental psychology (15 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Political science (13 works) · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (12 works) · Medicine (12 works) · Family Dynamics and Relationships (10 works) · Clinical Psychology (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Law (7 works)