The first paper in this series on child survival presented an unacceptable picture: more than 10 million children dying every year, almost all in low-income countries or poor areas of middle-income countries. 90% of these deaths occurred in just 42 countries, most from one of a short list of causes: diarrhoea, pneumonia, measles, malaria, HIV/AIDS, and the underlying cause of undernutrition for...

A new theory of attraction and liking based on kin selection suggests that people detect genetic similarity in others in order to give preferential treatment to those who are most similar to themselves. There are many sources of empirical and theoretical support for this view, including (1) the inclusive fitness theory of altruism, (2) kin recognition studies of animals raised apart, (3) assort...

The aim of this study was to investigate if normative variations in parenting relate to brain development among typically developing children. A sample of 352 mother-infant dyads came to the laboratory when infants were 5, 10, and 24 months of age (final N = 215). At each visit, child resting electroencephalography (EEG) was recorded. Mother-infant interactions were videotaped at the 5-month vi...

by reducing the growth rate and aging population countries, communities population has become a controversial issue. this subject has led many thinkers to understand the factors influencing fertility decline. understanding the quality of fertility reduction and family change requires to understand the status of women which is a result of global changes. because women as one of the pillars of th...

Aim To understand the prevalence of feeding difficulties (FD) in young children at self-feeding transition stage (6–24 months age), and protective risk predictors associated with FD are to be determined through this study. Methods A cross-sectional study was conducted within 5 representative Women's Children's hospitals Chengdu, Southwest China. Children age 6–24 who underwent routine child hea...

This research was conducted with the aim of identifying proportion development indicators for children aged 5 to 6 years during implementation BDR (learning from home) at TK PGRI Tanjung Batu. type is quantitative. Observation data through and interviews. The population this study in group B a sample 21 who were selected based on nonprobability techniques. results showed that cognitive individu...

OBJECTIVE To determine how parental injury affects the psychological health and functioning of injured as well as uninjured children. METHODS We recruited 175 parent-child dyads treated at a regional trauma center in 4 groups: parent and child both injured in the same event, child-only injured, parent-only injured, and neither parent nor child met criteria for significant injury. The preinjur...