Child-rearing With Minimal Domination: A Republican Account

Child-rearing and children's empathy

Changes in the Child-Rearing Environment and Their Effect on Child-Rearing Anxiety

The child-rearing environment has drastically changed over the past fifty years. Many factors associated with the changes in the environment have resulted in heightened child-rearing anxiety among mothers. For example, advancement of industries, urbanization, and expansion of the information society have led to a change in family structure. Nuclear families that consist of only a few members ha...

A functional account of minimal cellular life

Life seems to be one of the most fundamental categories in nature. But how exactly do material objects that are living differ from those that are not? Is there any a fundamental difference? And if so, is it a dichotomy or a matter of degree? One answer to these questions abstracts away from chemical details and instead concentrates on living system’s functional properties. In fact, the protocel...

Funding child rearing: child allowance and parental leave.

This article proposes two financing plans to address what the author identifies as the two primary concerns in the child care field: (1) a child allowance for poor and near-poor households to address the child care problems of low-income families, and (2) a program of voluntary parental leave, available to all parents at child birth or adoption, to ensure the adequacy of infant care. The child ...

On minimal geodetic domination in graphs

Let G be a connected graph. For two vertices u and v in G, a u–v geodesic is any shortest path joining u and v. The closed geodetic interval IG[u, v] consists of all vertices of G lying on any u–v geodesic. For S ⊆ V (G), S is a geodetic set in G if ⋃ u,v∈S IG[u, v] = V (G). Vertices u and v of G are neighbors if u and v are adjacent. The closed neighborhood NG[v] of vertex v consists of v and ...