OBJECTIVE Induced abortion is widely practiced in China. However, the information on induced abortion is limited. A national cross-sectional survey was designed to determine the risk factors of induced abortion among Chinese women with one child. METHODS We sampled 16,881 Chinese women with one living child for the study. A structured questionnaire was used to collect induced abortion and rel...

The purpose of this study was to explore the role of social preference and perceived acceptance as moderators of the relation between child temperament and externalizing behavior. Participants included 399 children evaluated at pre-kindergarten and kindergarten assessments. Pre-kindergarten children characterized by high temperamental Surgency/Extraversion were more likely to exhibit hyperactiv...

Child stunting in India exceeds that in poorer regions like sub-Saharan Africa. Data on over 168,000 children show that, relative to Africa, India's height disadvantage increases sharply with birth order. We posit that India’s steep birth order gradient is due to favoritism toward eldest sons, which affects parents' fertility decisions and resource allocation across children. We show that, with...

This natural observation study was designed to evaluate hypothesized elevated 'attention-seeking' and preference for adult attention in Smith-Magenis syndrome. Ten children with Smith-Magenis syndrome were observed across one school day, together with an age matched sample of 10 children with Down syndrome. Levels of attention given to, and vigilance for, adults and peers were recorded and comp...

This study sought to determine fertility preferences and their predictors among women living with HIV. A survey of 295 women aged 18 to 49 years living with HIV, and attending two HIV/AIDS clinics in the Kumasi metropolis, was conducted between July and August 2012. We administered questionnaires, and retrieved records of clinical status for review. We conducted multiple logistic regressions wi...

Almost all parents have preference to the number and sex of children, somebody like boy more and somebody like girl more. The ideal sex composition of children to most couples in China is to have one boy and one girl (Zheng, 2004), which was also true in China for the last two thousand years. If there were no limit to number of children, and if a couple had very strong sex preference of childre...

BACKGROUND We sought to elicit preference weights from parents for health states corresponding to children with various levels of severity of atopic dermatitis. We also evaluated the hypothesis that parents with children who had been diagnosed with atopic dermatitis would assign different preferences to the health state scenarios compared with parents who did not have a child with atopic dermat...

NISAN, MORDECAI, and KORIAT, ASHER. The Effect of Cognitive Restructuring on Delay of Gratification. CHILD DEVELOPMENT, 1984, 55, 492-503. 2 experiments evaluated predictions derived from a cognitive-developmental approach to delay of gratification. In the first, kindergarten children expressed preference for either a small but immediate reward or a large but delayed reward. They were then told...