Neighborhood Moderation Effects on Family Check-Up

What is it about?

The paper examines the long-term effects of a family-based intervention designed to improve children's emerging conduct problems from age 2 to age 9.5 in urban, suburban, and rural neighborhoods. Neighborhood disadvantage in urban settings attenuated the effects of the intervention; however, if changes in parenting occurred in the most deprived urban neighborhoods from ages 2 to 3, children in such neighborhoods showed improvements in conduct problems according to teacher reports at school-age.

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Why is it important?

Suggests that neighborhood context matters when implementing family-based interventions and rather than "giving up" on families living in the most dire conditions, more efforts are needed to ensure that parents living in deprived contexts have the skills to ensure their child's welfare.