Daughters and Divorce

Comparison of General Health and Eating Disorders in Daughters of Formal Divorce, Emotional Divorce and Normal Counterparts

Introduction: Divorce and separation from parents can cause many problems, including impaired family functioning. The purpose of the present study was to compare the general health and eating disorders in the offspring of girls of formal divorce, emotional divorce and normal counterparts. Methods: This study was a descriptive-comparative study. The statistical population of the study consisted...

America's sons and daughters.

Hilary Valdez, MS, is a Survivor Outreach Services Coordinator for the U.S. Army in Tokyo, Japan and provides services that support the Families of Fallen Soldiers. He conducts support groups and life skills training to the community and leadership. My reassignment to the desolate, harsh environment of the Mojave Desert came as quite a shock. Leaving my family to join sturdy, hard core Marines ...

Fathers’ and daughters’ heights

Sons, Daughters, and Parental Behaviour

The prevalence of son preference and its implications for family behaviour in developing countries have received a great deal of scholarly attention, but child-gender bias is believed to be empirically unimportant in wealthy, non-traditional societies. Studies by sociologists and psychologists during the past 30 years, however, have documented consistent discrepancies between the behaviour of p...

Methylphenidate use and divorce.

The findings in a CMAJ research article by Lisa Strohschein on methylphenidate use among Canadian children are likely to be misinterpreted because of the methodology used and the author’s interpretation of the data. Strohschein used survey data indicating whether divorce occurred in participating Canadian households at any point from 1994 to 2000 to categorize families as those in which the par...