The highest rates of oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) and conduct disorder (CD) are found in low-income welfare families. The Head Start program is for the “continued enhancement of services for poor children ages zero to five, and their families.” The parents of the children in the Head Start program are rarely examined. Head Start instead focuses on the academic performance of the involved children. The article, “Preventing Conduct Problems in Head Start Children: Strengthening Parenting …showed first 75 words of 318 total…

…showed last 75 words of 318 total…plus because the whole center, not just a few classes in the center, is involved in the chosen program. Also, the centers didn’t debate on which program that they’d like to participate in. There were more families in the experimental group than in the control group. The Partners or Control program is the independent variable (depending on which group the child is a part of). The child’s conduct is the dependent variable.