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CHALLENGING CASE: BEHAVIORAL CHANGES Erica: A Question of Sexual Abuse*

CASE Erica, 20 months old, is brought to the office of her pediatrician by her mother who is concerned about the possibility of sexual abuse. She describes her daughter’s behavior as unusual during the past 2 weeks. At first, she thought Erica was experiencing abdominal pain when she pointed to her abdomen. Gradually, it became apparent that she was pointing to her vagina with the utterance “oo...

Confronting the 'sugar daddy' stereotype: age and economic asymmetries and risky sexual behavior in urban Kenya.

CONTEXT "Sugar daddy" relationships, which are characterized by large age and economic asymmetries between partners, are believed to be a major factor in the spread of HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa. Information is needed about sugar daddy partnerships-and about age and economic asymmetries more generally-to determine how common they are and whether they are related to unsafe sexual behavior. METH...

Two mothers and a donor: exploration of children’s family concepts in lesbian households

BACKGROUND Although children from lesbian families appear to make a distinction between a residential father and a donor, defining these two concepts seems to be a challenge. They need to appeal to more familiar concepts such as the hetero-normative concept of 'mother' to give a definition of the unfamiliar concepts they are confronted with. METHODS The study is based on qualitative in-depth ...

Fathercraft *This article was submitted to us as having been published in two Works Magazines read by a public not normally reached by mental health propaganda.

Here are two pictures of fathers. Three-year-old was addressing his bald and one-eyed teddy bear?"Now, Ed-ud, I'm your Daddy, and a Daddy is a person what'll always stop doing what he is doing to do kindly fings for a person." The second picture is of a mother and father standing together, baffled and miserable as they listen to the Juvenile Court Missionary saying?"The lad comes from what you ...

Liberal Daddy Quotas: Why Men Should Take Care of the Children, and How Liberals Can Get Them to Do It

The gendered division of labor is the major cause of gender inequality with respect to the broad spectrum of resources, occupations, and roles. Although many feminists aspire to an equality of outcome where there are no significant patterns of gender difference across these dimensions, many have also argued that liberal theories of social justice do not have the conceptual tools to justify a di...

What Did You Do in the War Daddy? Positioning, Planning, and Tuning for Virtual Tape