The primary goal of this study is to identify patterns in the ways mothers adhere to, reject, and combine intensive mothering attitudes behaviors. Mothers often face immense pressure devote significant physical mental effort toward childrearing, referred as mothering. At same time, many do not follow actions or beliefs that gender norms suggest they should. It remains unclear how holistically a...

OBJECTIVE The aim was to examine how traumatic and stressful events, responses to violence, child characteristics, and mothering quality, as measured in middle childhood predict psychological distress and positive resources in adolescence. METHOD The participants were 65 Palestinian adolescents (17+/-.85 years; 52% girls), who had been studied during the First Intifada (T1), during the Palest...

Maternal love, which is at the core of maternal behavior, is essential for the mother–infant attachment relationship and is important for an infant’s development and mental health. In addition, maternal love plays important roles in promoting not only the infant’s resilience, but also the mother’s. Therefore, it is crucial to clarify the neural basis of maternal love and related behaviors to un...

Despite the increasing number of women experiencing incarceration internationally, their experiences motherhood after prison rarely studied. This review aims to explore and synthesize current research on nature lived experience imprisonment. A qualitative synthesis English language-based articles published before January 2020 was used. 14 peer-reviewed studies were identified. The findings indi...

The number of lambs sold per ewe mated in the breeding flock has a considerable impact on sheep operation profitability. This depends primarily on fertility, prolificacy (# of lambs), and lamb survival, mothering ability, milk production of the ewe and lamb growth rate. Optimal reproduction does vary by environment and management system – some sheep operations don’t want a lambing rate over 200...