What are the impacts of parenting programming on adolescents?

Recognising the critical role of families in adolescents’ development and well-being, and the widening set of challenges facing adolescents today, governments and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) are increasingly implementing parenting programmes to better equip families to support healthy adolescent development. In this review, we define parenting programmes as ‘activities oriented to improving how parents approach and carry out their role as parents and to increasing parents’ child-rearing resources, including, knowledge, skills and social support’. Such programmes initially focused on the parents of young children; their expansion to parents of older children is relatively recent, and there is no synthesised analysis of their impact.

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Marcus, R., Kruja, K. and Rivett, J. (2019) What are the impacts of parenting programmes on adolescents? A review of evidence from low and middle-income countries. London: Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence. (https://www.gage.odi.org/publication/what-are-the-impacts-of-parenting-programming-on-adolescents/)