It has been argued that a society's gender system may influence parents' sex preferences for children. If this is true, one should expect to find no evidence of such preferences in countries with a high level of gender equality. In this article, we exploit data from population registers from Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden to examine continuities and changes in parental sex preferences in ...

In decision making, in order to avoid misleading solutions, the study of consistency when the decision makers express their opinions by means of preference relations becomes a very important aspect in order to avoid misleading solutions. In decision making problems based on fuzzy preference relations the study of consistency is associated with the study of the transitivity property. In this pap...

This study aimed at investigating the social status of young children in terms play behaviors. The sample group included 144 (5-6 years old). Personal Information Form, Selection-Based Sociometry Technique, and Preschool Play Behavior Scalewere used as data collection tools. Form Scale were filled by teachers separately for each child. Technique was applied to individually. According findings s...

background: short birth intervals have been associated with adverse health outcomes, including infant, child and maternal mortality. objective:  we aimed to investigate the duration and determinants of inter birth intervals among women of reproductive age in yazd, iran. materials and methods:  a cluster sampling technique was used to select 400 ever-married women aged 15-49 years in yazd, islam...

Objective: The objective of this study was to assess the marginal difference in preference-based health-related quality of life (HRQoL) for adults reporting maltreatment as a child, compared to adults reporting no maltreatment. Methods: Using data collected from adults self-reporting about adverse childhood experiences and current health status, we matched a group of adults reporting child malt...

OBJECTIVES A growing body of literature has highlighted the importance of considering patient preferences as part of the medical decision-making process. The purpose of the current review was to identify and summarize published research on preferences related to attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and its treatment, while suggesting directions for future research. METHODS A litera...

This article aimed to examine the relationships between Chinese parenting styles and child academic achievement through a meta-analytical review. After literature screening, 54 studies 793 independent effect sizes that met inclusion criteria were incorporated into analysis (n = 24630). According results of study, positive like “emotional warmth understanding” had prominent beneficial effects on...

This study aims to analyze; (1) To what extent the influence of wife's age on demand for children working women in Indonesia, (2) How far husband's (3) is education level ( 4) The which Indonesia. (5) type work (6) status (7) sex preference (8) household income data used this cross-sectional collected from 2022 KOR SUSENAS data. research method uses logistic regression analysis techniques. Base...

Background With the reauthorization of the United States Elementary and Secondary Education Act (referred to in 2001 as No Child Left Behind–NCLB), attention focused on the need for evidenced-based education research, particularly education policies and interventions that rest on what NCLB referred to as “scientifically based research.” In practice, this focus on scientifically based education ...

BACKGROUND Global and national efforts in the 21st century are directed toward the elimination of new pediatric HIV infections through evidence-based infant feeding interventions for the prevention of mother-to-child-transmission, with patient preference, motivation, and adherence identified as key factors for success. OBJECTIVES This study assessed the challenges faced by HIV-infected partur...