Females and Caring

Females manipulate behavior of caring males via prenatal maternal effects.

In species with biparental care, there is sexual conflict as each parent is under selection to minimize its personal effort by shifting as much as possible of the workload over to the other parent. Most theoretical and empirical work on the resolution of this conflict has focused on strategies used by both parents, such as negotiation. However, because females produce the eggs, this might affor...

Intertwining caring science, caring practice and caring education from a lifeworld perspective—two contextual examples

This article describes how caring science can be a helpful foundation for caring practice and what kind of learning support that can enable the transformation of caring science into practice. The lifeworld approach is fundamental for both caring and learning. This will be illustrated in two examples from research that show the potential for promoting health and well-being as well as the learnin...

Caring for Yourself While Caring for Others.

Cared for and Caring

Being mentally handicapped doesn't relieve people of their capacity for emotion, tenderness and concern. In hospital they should still be able to experience the pleasures and annoyances of ordinary 'family' life to the greatest extent possible.

Caring and Sharing

C. One-third of the world’s people, living in the developing nations, suffer serious hunger and malnutrition and live in fear of famine. The United States has 6% of the world’s population but consumes 40% of the world’s resources. As a nation we waste more of the earth’s products than many poor countries have for their entire sustenance. More money is spent annually on the average American dog ...