Susan Lang
Articles
CU Teen Crisis Intervention Expert Gives Intensive Training Program in Russia
With skyrocketing rates of drug and alcohol abuse and teen suicide throughout Russia, the city of Nizhni Novgorod needed ways to help its youth cope with anger and despair. As part of this effort,... [more]
Hard-to-Place Children Receive Varied Levels of Adoption Subsidies in N.Y.
New York state's most vulnerable children, those who are hard to place with adoptive parents because of their age or special needs, receive very different levels of support depending on where they... [more]
Want to Save Children from Abuse? Apply Models Used to Save Wildlife, Cornell Experts Recommend
ITHACA, N.Y. -- We have pulled the bald eagle from the brink of extinction, we've saved the California condor, and even the alligator and the buffalo have made a comeback. Now, as reports of child... [more]
Study: Men Less Accepting of Obesity than Women
Men and women seem to have an equal tendency to avoid dating people with eating disorders. But when it comes to obesity, men are far less accepting than women, says a new Cornell study. "Students ... [more]
Cornell Program Helps Prevent Family Violence in the U.S. Armed Forces
Members of the U.S. military need to be tough and aggressive in defense of the country but not when it comes to spouses and children. With help from Cornell, thousands of U.S. Army and Marine... [more]
Study: Childhood Sex Abuse Has Significant Impact on Adult Relationships
College women who were sexually abused before age 18 tend to have less secure and trusting relationships with their partners and lower levels of interpersonal functioning and social adjustment than... [more]
Child-maltreatment Researchers Convene at 10th Annual Summer Research Institute at CU
How does a mother's depression affect her children's behavior over time? What motivates a foster parent to care for a child with serious psychosocial problems? Why do some cases of child abuse result... [more]
Foster Children's Chances of Adoption Are Strongly Affected by New York and Federal Subsidies, a Cor
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Children in foster care who qualify for adoption subsidies are twice as likely to get adopted as children who do not qualify for subsidies, according to a Cornell University... [more]
Study: Foster Children's Adoption Chances Strongly Affected by Subsidies
Children in foster care who qualify for adoption subsidies are twice as likely to get adopted as children who do not qualify for subsidies, according to a Cornell study. Rosemary Avery, associate... [more]
Hard-to-Place Children in New York Receive Different Levels of Adoption Subsidies Depending on the C
ITHACA, N.Y. -- New York state's most vulnerable children, those who are hard to place with adoptive parents because of their age or special needs, receive very different levels of support depending... [more]
Children Who Experience Family Turmoil Feel the Impact into Middle Age, Cornell Sociologist Finds
ITHACA, N.Y. -- The effects of childhood family disruptions -- such as parental divorce, long-term separation from biological parents, parental abandonment and foster care -- can reverberate into... [more]
CU Sociologist: Early Disruptions Can Have Later Impact
The effects of childhood family disruptions -- such as parental divorce, long-term separation from biological parents, parental abandonment and foster care -- can reverberate into later life, says a... [more]
Cornell Youth Crisis Intervention Expert Helps Russia Cope with Teens Who Need Special Care
ITHACA, N.Y. -- With skyrocketing rates of drug and alcohol abuse and teen suicide throughout Russia, the city of Nizhni Novgorod needed ways to help its youth cope with anger and despair. As part of... [more]
Adoptive Parents Are Overwhelmingly in Favor of Opening
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Parents of adopted children in New York are overwhelmingly in favor of laws that allow adult adoptees access to information in their birth certificates about their birth parents,... [more]
Family Life Development Center Helps Fight Child Abuse and Neglect
Every year, more than 3 million American children including more than 211,000 in New York are reported abused or neglected. Each day, three children die from such maltreatment. Cornell, the... [more]
Public Policies Promoting Marriage May Not Benefit All Children,Cornell Social Policy Expert Finds i
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Overcoming the drawbacks of growing up with a single parent, black children do as well, both academically and socially, as blacks in two-parent homes, a study by Cornell University... [more]
Nurse Visits Greatly Reduce Child Neglect in Non-Violent Homes, JAMA Study Shows
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Visiting nurses have helped reduce child abuse and neglect by up to 80 percent over a 15-year period among a group of low-income, unmarried women visitedduring their pregnancies and... [more]
New Two-Stage Screening Successfully Identifies Personality Disorders
Although personality disorders can cause long-term suffering and disability, they are difficult to detect. As a result, many people go untreated. A new screening procedure, developed at Cornell... [more]
Child Welfare Expert Says Economic Indicators Hide the Multiple Stresses Faced by Poor Children in A
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Many people are unaware of the hardships suffered by families in the bottom rungs of society because conventional economic barometers paint rosy economic pictures that mask their... [more]
Staring and Squirming Could Be Adaptive Behavior That Helps Babies Explore Their World, Cornell Rese
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Staring and squirming by infants might not be as random or meaningless as they seem, says a Cornell University developmental psychologist. Rather, the link between the two could... [more]
Children of Divorce Are Half as Likely to Go to Top Colleges, Study Finds
Children who do not consistently live with two biological parents are only half as likely to ever attend a selective college, even after researchers take into account factors such as income and... [more]
Mentor Program Helps New Students in Transition
Before Uyen Nguyen ever got to Cornell last fall, an upperclassman wrote to welcome her to campus and say he'd be her mentor during her first year here. "It's easy to feel lost here because Cornell... [more]
Researcher: Economic indicators hide hardships faced by U.S. children
Many people are unaware of the hardships suffered by families in the bottom rungs of society because conventional economic barometers paint rosy economic pictures that mask their plight, says James... [more]
Cornell Expert Calls for Protecting Children the Way We Protect Alligators and Spotted Owls
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Wildlife preservationists have been successful enough in rescuing species from the brink of extinction that some of their methods should be applied to protecting children, says a... [more]
Cornell Child Abuse Expert Says It's Time to Recognize Smoking as Child Abuse
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Cigarette smoking is a form of child abuse, says one of the nation's leading child abuse experts, and it's high time we recognize it as such."More young children are killed by... [more]
