Under poor circumstances, co-residence of a grandmother is generally considered to be beneficial for (grand)children. Empirical evidence does not unequivocally support this expectation and suggests that the grandmother's importance depends on the family's circumstances. We study the relationship between grandmother's co-residence and children's schooling in sub-Saharan Africa under a broad rang...

As a nursing student back in the late 1970s, I thought would not work oncology because it hit too close to home; my mother, grandmother, grandfather, and college friend had all cancer. Working with patients cancer bring up many memories worries which never subject myself.

We examine longitudinal patterns of involvement of young, unmarried biological fathers (n = 77) in teenage-mother families using cluster analytic techniques that incorporate multiple dimensions of financial, emotional, and instrumental involvement. Approximately one-third of fathers maintained high levels of involvement over time, another third demonstrated a low level at both time points, and ...

We analyzed data that were collected continuously between 1950 and 1974 from a rural area of the Gambia to determine the effects of kin on child mortality. Multilevel event-history models were used to demonstrate that having a living mother, maternal grandmother, or elder sisters had a significant positive effect on the survival probabilities of children, whereas having a living father, paterna...

The text was conceived as a review, combined with an analysis and interpretation, of texts written by Polish women authors after 2010, especially novels short story collections in which the grandmother is important character. Women from 1970s 1980s, who creating various herstories, make eldest family disposers narratives, responsible for building specific bridges between past present, well guar...

The Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome (WAS) is a severe X-linked disorder characterized classically by thrombocytopenia, immunodeficiency, and eczema. The phenotype observed in this syndrome is caused by mutation in the WAS gene. Peripheral blood DNAs were isolated from an 18-month-old boy with WAS and his mother, maternal uncle, and maternal grandmother. Genetic analysis for the detection of a mutation...

This three-generational study investigated family histories of attachment relationships and abusive experiences as well as current functioning of family members that differentiate supportive from unsupportive mothers of sexually abused children. Interviews and standardized adult and child measures were administered to a sample, including (a) 99 nonoffending African American mothers and their ch...

Bowers challenged the common view in favor of distributed representations in psychological modeling and the main arguments given against localist and grandmother cell coding schemes. He revisited the results of several single-cell studies, arguing that they do not support distributed representations. We praise the contribution of Bowers (2009) for joining evidence from psychological modeling an...