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We found that participants who had more mobility experiences had lower consistency in their personality characteristics (the exception being Rigidity). Residential mobility from different life stages was positively associated with the continuity and change of Inadequacy and Dominance. In addition, y...
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PMID: 21486270
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Cosleeping is the practice of parents and children sleeping together in body contact for all or part of the night. There is a close relationship between sleep habits and headache disorders. Aim of the study was to identify prevalence of cosleeping in children with migraine disorder.
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PMID: 21487373
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The aim of the study is to examine the association linking parenting and personality disorder controlling for parental personality disorder, and whether this association is moderated by parental PD. Data were from community-dwelling high school students aged 18 and above and their parents living in B...
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PMID: 21195487
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We describe the supervision and physical environment of falls resulting in medical care in the emergency department.
We enrolled a convenience sample of 108 children younger than 7 years with fall injuries.
The average age was 3 years, and 56% were male. Seventy-six (70%) were a fall from a height i...
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PMID: 20938311
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Despite high rates of grandmother involvement with young grandchildren, very little research has examined the associations between nonresidential grandmother involvement and grandchild social adjustment. The present study involved 127 families enrolled in the Family Transitions Project to consider t...
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PMID: 20954774
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The purpose of this study was to assess which knowledge deficits and dietary habits in an urban pediatric emergency department (ED) population are risk factors for obesity.
This cross-sectional study in an urban pediatric ED used a modified version of the Diet and Health Knowledge Survey, an in-pers...
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PMID: 20881910
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The objectives of this study were to compare the personality profiles of adolescent males with and without Internet addiction disorder (IAD), and to determine if IAD is associated with specific parental rearing behaviors. A total of 304 subjects (204 IAD positive and 100 IAD negative controls) compl...
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PMID: 20712498
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Providing health care services for youngsters with special health care needs (SHCN) requires understanding of the medical circumstances that impact on the particular youngster, as well as an increased awareness and sensitivity to their particular family setting, and the issues that impact on the chi...
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PMID: 20711942
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Research on ethnic minority parenting has examined heritage cultural influences and contextual stressors on parenting processes. However, rarely are adaptive cultural processes considered, whereby ethnic minority parents bring their cultural values to bear in adapting to contextual demands in the ho...
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PMID: 20658874
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We sought to determine whether childbearing is associated with concurrent changes in cardiovascular risk factors and the progression of carotid intima-media thickness.
We examined the association between the number of children born during a 6-year period and concurrent changes in car...
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PMID: 20538698
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LBC are at risk to develop emotional/behavior problems, particularly if they are left behind early in life, for longer periods, in the care of young caregivers or nonrelatives with poor education and low socioeconomic status, and with less teacher support. Strategies to prevent the development of ps...
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PMID: 19657573
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This study evaluated the psychometric properties of a newly developed adolescent-reported domain-specific measure of parental behavioral control. In addition, this study examined the relationships between domains of perceived behavioral control and adolescent problem behaviors and tested whether psy...
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PMID: 19878985
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The language test was reliable, had acceptable concurrent and predictive validity, and was sensitive to environmental and child characteristics. Mothers' reports of language could be useful in large-scale programs....
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PMID: 20715604
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To explore the influences of guardians on emotion and behavior of rural left-behind children aged 3 to 7 years.
A self-designed questionnaire of children's condition and Children Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (the edition for parents, SDQ) were used to investigate 805 left-behind children...
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PMID: 20654047
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We built from ecocultural theory to observe daily home activities in which Mexican American mothers attempted to correct their young child's behavior or encourage completion of a task (compliance attempt). We observed 24 first- or second-generation mothers and their 4-year-old children and analyzed...
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PMID: 20438171
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Guided by theories of cultural participation, the authors examined mother-child, father-child, and triadic interactive behaviors in 141 Israeli and Palestinian couples and their firstborn child at 5 and 33 months as antecedents of children's social competence. Four parent-child measures (parent sens...
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PMID: 20210505
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In this paper studies are reviewed from the last decade on postpartum depression effects on early interactions, parenting, safety practices and on early interventions. The interaction disturbances of depressed mothers and their infants appear to be universal, across different cultures and socioecono...
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PMID: 19962196
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Psychometric properties of the Spanish version of the Dimensions of Discipline Inventory (DDI) in university students. Discipline is a central aspect of parenting that includes the behaviors that parents use to correct children's misbehavior or to achieve their compliance. The aim of this study was...
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PMID: 20100442
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We included 647 mothers, who reported 997 births in the past five years. The reported number of deaths was 169, with the estimated U5MR of 170/1000 live births/year. The five major causes of mortality were tetanus (17.8%), diarrhoea (11.8%), measles (6.5%), delivery related morbidities (6.5%) and Ac...
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PMID: 20209689
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Jane Waldfogel, Terry-Ann Craigie, and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn review recent studies that use data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (FFCWS) to examine why children who grow up in single-mother and cohabiting families fare worse than children born into married-couple households. They als...
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PMID: 20964133
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Several historical developments (slavery, declining employment for Black men and increasing workforce participation for Black women, and welfare policies that favored single mothers) led to father absence from African American families. Today, more than two thirds of Black infants are born to unmarr...
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PMID: 20629247
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Noting that access to higher education has expanded dramatically in the past several decades, Sara Goldrick-Rab and Kia Sorensen focus on how unmarried parents fare once they enter college. Contrary to the expectation that access to college consistently promotes family stability and economic securit...
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PMID: 20964137
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As nonmarital childbearing escalated in the United States over the past half century, fragile families--defined as unmarried couples with children--drew increased interest from researchers and policy makers. Sara McLanahan and Audrey Beck discuss four aspects of parental relationships in these famil...
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PMID: 20964130
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These results suggest that unwed fathers' earnings are affected by family relationships as well as their education and work experience. Lerman notes that several factors influence the extent to which unwed fathers stay involved with their children. Better-educated fathers, those who most identify wi...
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PMID: 20964132
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In this essay, Robert Davis argues that much of the moral anxiety currently surrounding children in Europe and North America emerges at ages and stages curiously familiar from traditional Western constructions of childhood. The symbolism of infancy has proven enduringly effective over the last two c...
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PMID: 20662168
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School shootings are traumatic events that cause a community to question itself, its values, and its educational systems. In this article Bryan Warnick, Benjamin Johnson, and Samuel Rocha explore the meanings of school shootings by examining three recent books on school violence. Topics that grow ou...
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PMID: 20662173
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In this essay David Bridges argues that since most families choose to realize their responsibility for the major part of their children's education through state schools, then the way in which the state constructs parents' relation with these schools is one of its primary levers on parenting itself....
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PMID: 20662169
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In this essay James Conroy raises the question of how far the state should engage in the rearing of children, looking in particular at homeschooling as a site for contestation. He considers this question by looking specifically at recent developments in the United Kingdom around the elision of child...
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PMID: 20662170
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The present contribution presents psychometric findings of a newly developed questionnaire on paternal engagement after parental separation based on a sample of 225 separated or divorced fathers living in the German part of Switzerland. Factor analyses led to the following five dimensions: education...
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PMID: 21140584
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Professionals are needed who, beginning with their education, integrate the social dimension with technical-scientific knowledge, who recognize the coexistence of different rationalities in the educational setting and put them into perspective, venturing into educational proposals that break with pa...
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PMID: 20464253
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Total stimulation at home was significantly associated with better performance in the gross and fine motor areas. Particular aspects of this home stimulation were related to better gross and fine motor functions. CONCLUSION: Static balance and locomotion (gross motor skills) and grasping and visual-...
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PMID: 20464249
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We collected responses from parents or rearers of 5977 children (3119 males and 2858 females) in nursery, elementary, and lower-secondary schools. A confirmed factor analysis of ADHD-RS confirmed the two-factor solution (Inattentive and Hyperactive-Impulsive) same as previous studies. ADHD-RS scores...
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PMID: 20638822
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The impact that "Romanization" and the development of urban centers had on the health of the Romano-British population is little understood. A re-examination of the skeletal remains of 364 nonadults from the civitas capital at Roman Dorchester (Durnovaria) in Dorset was carried out t...
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PMID: 20027610
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For women with an autoimmune illness, fatigue can be a debilitating symptom that impacts many aspects of their life. There is scant research on maternal fatigue and its impact on the caregiving environment for either well women or women with chronic illnesses. The objective of this study was to exam...
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PMID: 20047356
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There are shortcomings in psychological and behavioral development in children aged 1 to 3 years fostered by grandparents....
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PMID: 20113611
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One hundred and fifty-five mothers of children with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) completed a semi-structured interview, the Parenting Stress Index Questionnaire (Abidin, 1990), to evaluate parenting stress. The Parenting Scale (Arnold, O'Leary, Wolff & Acker, 1993) was also admini...
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PMID: 19899651
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In the Japanese leprosaria, it was very difficult or almost impossible for leprosy patients to give birth to their children. There were various reasons for this situation. Leprosy in the women mostly worsened in pregnancy and some of the children developed leprosy. Because of the chronic nature of t...
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PMID: 19803374
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An overview of DSD with recent publications germane to diagnosis, management, and sex of rearing decisions is presented. Most DSD etiologies are rare and outcome studies are scarce. A high degree of uncertainty and low level of scientific support have led to most of the controversies in this field....
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PMID: 19444113
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Factor analysis of the PCFA items suggested 3 factors that accounted for 98% of the variance: autonomy support, protection/monitoring, and emergency education. Internal consistencies for the 3 scales were acceptable (alpha = .79, .73, and .82, respectively). Child age and medical variables (history...
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PMID: 19739427
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High gravidity or parity may be related to increased risk of stroke in women. Chronic stress and adverse lifestyle factors related to childrearing may contribute importantly to the increased risk....
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PMID: 19461027
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From the analysis of 189 respondents, positive spillover of work and family roles, and egalitarian sex role attitudes were related to fathers' emotional support for mothers. Regarding child-rearing and housework, positive spillover of work and family roles and mothers' occupations were related. CONC...
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PMID: 19663268
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The goals of this study were: (a) to examine authoritative parenting style among Chinese immigrant mothers of young children, (b) to test the mediational mechanism between authoritative parenting style and children's outcomes; and (c) to evaluate 3 predictors of authoritative parenting style (psycho...
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PMID: 19586194
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Child and mother play (n = 113 20-month-olds) among South American Latino immigrants, Japanese immigrants, and European Americans in the United States was investigated. Culturally universal patterns of play dominated the findings. For example, no cultural differences in the prevalence of exploratory...
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PMID: 19586198
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This study explores maternal and paternal parenting practices (authoritative or authoritarian) and parental values and goals for toddlers among Chinese mothers and fathers in Canada and China. The participants included 126 families of 1-year-old toddlers (67 Chinese Canadians and 59 mainland Chinese...
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PMID: 19586196
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Parental acceptance and control are the 2 dimensions of parenting that have been investigated most; however, little is known about their cross-cultural expressions. This longitudinal study examined acceptance, control, and R. Chao's indigenous Chinese notion of control--chiao shun (training)--in 35...
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PMID: 19586195
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This study revealed that having good childbirth experiences inhibits negative awareness of motherhood and abusive behavior towards children. These results show that it is important for mothers to be provided with appropriate care during pregnancy and labor for preventing child abuse and parenting st...
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PMID: 19588858
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There are a number of implications for clinical practice and understanding the role of parenting conflict in the development of child difficulty....
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PMID: 19221915
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Child caregiver had a significant influence on child development (p-value < 0.05). Children reared by a grandparent had 2.0 times higher chance of having delayed development compared with those who were reared by the parent. In addition, significant family factors that had impact on the child develo...
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PMID: 19301739
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It is clear that there are a number of common underlying lifestyle issues that need to be considered when dealing with parenting problems in families with young children. However specific to Pacific families, is Tongan ethnicity accounting for a strong cultural effect on parenting style, in particul...
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PMID: 19585733
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Data from youth studied by Zagar and colleagues were randomly sampled to create groups of controls and abused, delinquent, violent, and homicidal youth (n=30 in each). Estimated costs of raising a nondelinquent youth from birth to 17 yr. were compared with the average costs incurred by other youth i...
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PMID: 19480218
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The culture of corporal punishment of children is changing; tradition approving it has weakened and prohibition has been slowly adopted. Reinforcing legal actions against this practice can contribute to speed up the process to end corporal punishment of children....
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PMID: 19169578
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Health visiting practice has moved away from surveillance and screening of children to support for parents, especially those assessed as vulnerable. This paper explores parents' perspectives of factors that determine their need for support and the perceived usefulness of the support they receive. Pa...
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PMID: 19238820
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