We examine the effect of single motherhood on children’s secondary school track choice using 12-year-old children drawn from the German Socio-Economic Panel. In line with previous studies for the U.S., the U.K. and Sweden, we find a negative correlation between single motherhood and children’s educational attainment. Looking for alternative explanations for this correlation, we use probit regre...

This article examines lay narratives about abortion among adult men and women in Nyeri district, central Kenya. The women studied do not champion or defend abortion and they do not necessarily condemn it. To them, abortion shields not merely against the shame of mistimed or socially unviable entry into recognized motherhood but more importantly against the negative socioeconomic consequences of...

In the recent article(l), authors have diagnosed vitamin A toxicity after measles immunization on the basis of bulging anterior fontanelle within 24 h of intake of 1,00,000 IU of Vitamin A given along with measles vaccine. They have not estimated vitamin A levels or demonstrated any other change of vitamin A toxicity such as liver enzymes, hematological indices or tests for bone changes. Withou...

Utilization of institutional delivery has an important implication for maternal and child health in India in terms of both morbidity and mortality. The utilization rates for institutional delivery are very low in large north Indian States. Reasons for such low institutionalized delivery care are mainly the low utilization rates of Ante Natal Care services. Safe motherhood intervention Scheme or...

conclusions: marital age, and socioeconomic status had a direct association, and hopefulness and marital satisfaction had an indirect one with iranian women’s decision for timing motherhood. therefore, this is the responsibility of policy-makers and healthcare providers to advise women by providing appropriate interventions and facilities. results: the results revealed that among direct pathway...

he International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo in 1994 for the first time introduced the concept of Reproductive Health (RH) through a life cycle approach. Reproductive health was explained as a state of complete mental, physical and social well being in all matters of reproductive systems, its functions and processes. It means being able to have a satisfying and safe...

BACKGROUND CONTEXT Spinal manipulation (SM) is an effective treatment for low back pain (LBP), and it has been theorized that SM induces a beneficial neurophysiological effect by stimulating mechanically sensitive neurons in the lumbar facet joint capsule (FJC). PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to determine whether human lumbar FJC strains during simulated SM were different from those th...