The parental investment conflict considers the question of how much each sex should invest in each brood, thereby characterizing different animal species. Each species usually adopts a certain parental care pattern: female-care only, male-care only, biparental care, or even no parental care at all. The differences in care patterns are usually explained by the different costs and benefits arisin...

The aim of this article is to investigate the workings of parental authority in Slovenian families: how is parental authority asserted and how do adolescents react to parental authority? Based on a qualitative exploration, the study shows that parental authority is accommodated in ways that comply with the general culture of intergenerational negotiations; it is co-constituted as a joint produc...

Several domains of parenting have been identified as important for adolescent well-being. Whether these same domains are equally beneficial for adolescents with ADHD histories remains an empirical and clinically important question. This study examined whether parental knowledge of their teen's activities and whereabouts, consistency, support, and parent-adolescent conflict are associated with s...

a comparative study between two methods of health   education on mother's knowledge about child training in   urmia health center in 2003.     amirzadeh n [1] , khalilzadeh h [2] , amirzadeh j [3]     abstract:   introduction: the future of every society depends on its children. today, parents (especially mothers) must challenge for their care, training, and socialization. parents most be ...

Because we have only considered situations in which the main care received by a child, other than parental care, is provided by grandparents (a scenario which ignores other situations where grandparents may act as an essential background support), the results suggest that grandparental care does indeed play an important role in determining the probability of women working in our chosen set of c...