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But it is not uncommon. At her middle-class New Delhi apartment complex, testing is an obsession for families of high school students. Parents gossip about scores, anguish over them, and pray over them. Students spend months preparing for tests - and worrying about them.

"We have to keep them under pressure," says Jaya Samaddar, tiffany jewellery daughter is studying for the national exams given in 10th grade. "We have no other choice."

For the last decade, India's economy has been booming and the ranks of its middle class expanding rapidly. India also has one of the world's youngest populations. All this means that the cutthroat competition has only gotten worse for the limited number of slots in the country's higher-education system.

High school seniors must pass national board tiffany bangle bracelet to graduate from high school. Since university admissions are based overwhelmingly on these - roughly the equivalent of S.A.T.'s - and other entrance exams, testing season has become a period of excruciating pressure for students and their families.

The mania over testing underscores a fundamental disconnect in Indian education: Even as elite Indian students have achieved remarkable success studying overseas, the educational system in India is widely considered to be failing both the tens of millions of students at the bottom, who drop out before high school, and the smaller pool at the top, who are competing for entrance into universities that are too few and underfinanced.

Experts warn that the potential advantages of India's youthful tiffany pendant could become disadvantages if the government cannot improve the education system rapidly enough to give more students a chance at college. Of the 186 million students in India, only about 12 percent are enrolled in higher education, one of the lowest ratios in the world. (Sixty-nine percent of U.S. high school graduates go to college.) During the next decade, India expects another 40 million students.

"If you have 150 million or 160 million children who don't go to college, what is going to happen to them 10 or 15 years from now?" asks Kapil Sibal, the government minister who oversees education.

At International CES, the company will expand its iPod-oriented assortment, launch its first Bluetooth stereo headsets and add products and accessories for use with a specific MP3 player brand that iLuv declined to disclose. "We're looking at other platforms, perhaps satellite radio," Viken added.

Other key product introductions at CES will be the industry's first iPod-docking home audio products with included two-way Bluetooth technology, Viken said. An iLuv clock radio and one-piece tabletop AM/FM/CD stereo system will transmit music to tiffany necklaces headphones or to any other Bluetooth-equipped device, Viken said. The iLuv products in turn will reproduce music that they receive wirelessly from Bluetooth-equipped portables such as music-playing cellphones and MP3 players equipped to a Bluetooth dongle, also available from iLuv.

iLuv uses the term BluePin to describe its patented Bluetooth implementation, which takes shape as a module that's smaller than a 9-volt battery. Consumers plug the module into selected iLuv products via the module's pin connectors. The first two iLuv products to use the technology will ship with the module included. The module will also be available separately for future BluePin-ready products. The module's pricing and ship date weren't available. One of iLuv's first two BluePin products is the $199-suggested i199, a one-piece iPod-docking tabletop stereo system with AM/FM tuner, MP3-CD player, video output for display iPod cheap silver jewelry on a connected TV, dual-alarm digital clock, iPod Shuffle support, and line-level input for use with other-brand MP3 players and first- and second-generation iPods. It ships in January.The second BluePin product is the iPod-docking i277 clock radio, which also features video output. It will be at CES. Other details were unavailable.

The brand's first two Bluetooth stereo headsets, due in December, ship with Bluetooth dongle that attaches to MP3 players and other music sources that lack Bluetooth. iLuv believes one of the models, the i903 at a suggested $129, will be the industry's first Bluetooth-equipped noise-canceling headphone. It features built-in microphone for use as a cellular headset, and it can be wired to an audio device's 3.5mm output via an included mini-USB-to-3.5mm adapter tiffany jewellery. It delivers up to eight hours of listening time, nine hours of cellphone talktime or 300 hours of standby time.The other headphone is the i202 ear clip model, due this month at a suggested $109. Listening time is 14 hours; talktime is 13 hours, and standby time is 200 hours. It also features built-in microphone.

CUMULATIVE DISADVANTAGE AND PARENTING Cumulative disadvantage perspectives highlight the implications of sequential stresses and deficits for human and social development (Hagan & Foster, 2003). Hagan's (1991) analysis of longitudinal data specifies the process of cumulative disadvantage as one in which earlier difficulties and setbacks amplify the implications (and deleterious effects) of current ones. Put simply, a cumulative disadvantage perspective implies "there is less room for mistakes when opportunities are scarce" (Hannon, 2003, p. 576). The accumulation of disadvantage is best conceptualized as dynamic, in that it occurs over time and is multidimensional rather than fixed and static (Sampson & Laub, 1997). Such a conceptualization also acknowledges the potentially negative consequences of being "labeled" and subsequently stigmatized for understanding behavior. Here, relevant labels would include those connected with criminal justice involvement (e.g., felon, ex-con), and the necklaces for public assistance (e.g., welfare mother, lazy).

Cumulative disadvantage is characterized by multiple contextual risk factors relevant for parenting such as residing in poor neighborhoods, parental unemployment, single-parent households with three or more children, chronic mental and physical health problems, and being a member of a racially, ethnically, and socioeconomically disadvantaged group (Ceballo & Hurd, 2008; Puckering, 2004; Williams & Collins, 1995). Parental incarceration is also a well-known feature of cumulative disadvantage (Foster & Hagan, 2007; Sampson & Laub, 1997) and has a demonstrated impact on parenting practices (Beck, Cooper, McLanahan, & Brooks-Gunn, 2009). Sharlin and Shamai (2000) characterize such families as "multiproblem" and note that mothers in these families are particularly overloaded and tiffany jewellery due in part to the lack of parenting support from the men in their lives. It is no surprise that contextual cumulative disadvantage factors are linked to childhood adversity and maladjustment (Beyers, Bates, Pettit, & Dodge, 2003; Kaplan & Owens, 2004; Puckering, 2004) as well as compromised parenting (Bank, Forgatch, Patterson, & Fetrow, 1993; Ceballo & Hurd, 2008; Hanson, McLanahan, & Thomson, 1999). The parenting practices in contexts of persistent disadvantage have been characterized as inconsistent, harsh, and largely shaped by mother's mood, her level of preoccupation, and her response to crisis events (Bank et al., 1993; Hanson et al., 1999; McLoyd, 1990; Puckering, 2004). Hoghughi (2004) described the context of cumulative disadvantage as "a culture of daily struggle and fatalism with low expectations and erosions of hope, which in turn lead to poor care and control of children" (p. 14). Contexts of poverty seem to magnify vulnerabilities in parents, burden parents beyond their coping resources, and make it difficult for mothers to invest the necessary time and energy in their children (Sharlin & Shamai, 2000).MATERNAL DISTRESS

In thinking about the question of how the accumulation of disadvantage is experienced by low-income mothers, we consulted family stress theory, which posits that "the primary mechanism through which contextual stressors impair parenting is money clips psychological distress" (Kotchick, Dorsey, & Heller, 2005, p. 449). A rich body of empirical literature has demonstrated that psychological distress mediates the link between cumulative disadvantage and harsh, inconsistent parenting (McLoyd et al., 2006). We expand on the theoretical and empirical conceptualization of psychological distress by broadening the notion of parental distress to include relational and situational elements as well. We distinguish this combination of factors as maternal distress. Our conceptualization of maternal distress is based on grounded theorizing resulting from the first author's analysis of mothers' experience after a period of incarceration (Arditti & Few, 2008).