The COVID-19 global crisis and the “stay-home” response taken by most governments has starkly exposed dependence of formal economies on invisible unpaid care labor women – a that intensified during pandemic as public childcare provision schools are shut parents work from home. This article focuses specifically income support provided grandparents in United Kingdom South Africa. In undertaking t...

Robertsonian translocations (RBT) are associated with an increased risk of aneuploidy. Single RBT carriers are the most common balanced rearrangement among the carrier couples with the history of spontaneous abortion. However, double Robertsonian translocations (DRBT), in which two balanced RBT occur simultaneously, are an extremely rare condition. A 9-year-old mentally normal girl with mu...

This article explores the impact of grandparents’ supervision time input relative to effect parents’ childcare provision on children's cognitive, social and behavioral development at an early age. We identify effects interest through panel data estimation methods. The findings provide evidence complementarity between parental grandparental involvement in child-rearing process. Specifically, car...

A growing literature studies long-term income persistence across more than two generations. Despite a rich understanding of measurement-related biases for the parentchild model, far less is known multigenerational model that captures transmission from parents and grandparents. We show even using 25-year average can result in spurious grandparent coefficients. Importantly, given parental measure...

BALB/cJ and C57BL/10J mice were reared by foster parents of the same 2 strains in the 4 possible combinations or were unfostered. Operant behavior of offspring subsequently produced by these mice was significantly influenced by within-strain fostering and by strain of foster grandparents. Within-strain fostering raised the response rates of BALE Ss while lowering that of C57BL Ss. Both strains ...

Direct and indirect effects of grandparents on maternal nurturance in teen mothers (TM) living in three-generational families were explored with path analytic techniques in a sample of 107 working-class families. Perceived support from the teen's mother, grandparents' nurturance toward the baby, and the presence of the grandfather as a father figure in the home were hypothesized as increasing T...