The rights and duties of post-adolescent daughters: Daughters' and parents' accounts

Parents' health beliefs and HPV vaccination of their adolescent daughters.

Though many studies have documented correlates of HPV vaccine acceptability, our study is one of the first to examine correlates of vaccine initiation. The current study aimed to identify modifiable correlates of HPV vaccine initiation among adolescent girls in high risk communities and whether correlates varied by race and urban/rural status. In 2007, we conducted a cross-sectional survey of 8...

The Communication Challenges of Parents and Their Adolescent Daughters With an Emphasis on Social Media Use: A Content Analysis Study

Background: Challenge between parents and their children is a rapidly growing phenomenon in Iran. The communication challenge of adolescence with emphasis on social media in this study is a phenomenon that based on the changes and developments of adolescence, can affect the nature and quality of family relationships, question the authority of parents, and cause changes in regulations. The prese...

Alexithymia in parents and adolescent anorexic daughters: comparing the responses to TSIA and TAS-20 scales

BACKGROUND A growing body of literature has been focusing on individual alexithymia in anorexia nervosa, while there are only scarce and conflicting studies on alexithymia in the families of anorexic patients, despite the important role played by family dynamics in the development of the anorexic disorder, especially in adolescent patients. The aim of this study is to assess alexithymia in anor...

Beautiful british parents have more daughters.

The generalized Trivers-Willard hypothesis proposes that parents who possess any heritable trait that increases male reproductive success at a greater rate than female reproductive success in a given environment will have a higher-than-expected offspring sex ratio (more sons), and parents who possess any heritable trait that increases female reproductive success at a greater rate than male repr...

DEPARTMENT OF CHILD STUDIES Daughters , Sons , and Homosexual Parents