Women's choices appear to emphasize child welfare more than those of men. This paper presents new evidence on how suffrage rights for American women helped children to benefit from the scientific breakthroughs of the bacteriological revolution. Consistent with standard models of electoral competition, suffrage laws were followed by immediate shifts in legislative behavior and large, sudden incr...

Studies on the marital break-up of “mixed couples” in which partners have different nationalities and/or ethnicities pay little attention to how individual partners, notably one with a migration background, experience law and institutions concerning their children. Drawing ethnographic observations interviews Filipino women Belgium Netherlands, this paper investigates these migrants’ socio-lega...

Much of the focus in the new field of oncofertility has been on preserving cancer patients’ fertility prior to treatment that is likely to diminish their fertility or render them sterile. Less attention, however, has been paid to the logistics of using frozen eggs, embryos, or ovarian tissue following cancer treatment. It is usually assumed that, following some manipulation, the frozen eggs, em...

CONTEXT States have passed numerous laws restricting abortion, and Texas passed some of the most restrictive legislation between 2011 and 2013. Information about women's awareness of and support for the laws' provisions could inform future debates regarding abortion legislation. METHODS Between December 2014 and January 2015, some 779 women aged 18-49 participated in an online, statewide repr...

We all go through ups and downs in our mood. Sadness is a normal reaction to life’s struggles, setbacks, and disappointments. We may feel “down in the dumps” for a short period of time, but gradually the painful feelings dissipate and we move on with our lives—often the wiser for the experience. But if these feelings of sadness don't go away or if they are so intense that they interfere with yo...

Families of children with mental health care needs who live in states with mental health parity laws have lower out-of-pocket spending and are more likely to view their spending as reasonable compared with those living in non parity states. This suggests that mental health parity laws provide important financial benefits to families of children with mental healthcare needs.

Background: Violence against women is a problem of public health on a global scale. Two decades of international research organizations including the World Health Organization show the problem of violence against women is more serious and more common than was previously considered. These studies aimed to investigate, the most common causes of violence against women and prevention strategy from ...

objective of this study was determining of the hamadanian young couples about family size, sex ratio and birth order of their asked children. the population of this study was the young men and women that were imminent of marriage, refereed to marriage offices as well as hygienic and therapeutic centres in hamadan city. this was a cross sectional descriptive study and has been done by using ques...

Although drunk driving in the United States is a violent crime, driving impaired with a child in the vehicle is not typically acknowledged as child endangerment. The U.S. Department of Transportation and advocacy groups are struggling to improve public awareness of this issue, and recently, child-endangerment laws are receiving more attention. For this study, we examined the characteristics of ...