PURPOSE This study was conducted to explore the child rearing experience and associated issues of foreign women married to Korean men. METHODS Eleven foreign women married to Korean men were selected by a purposive and snowball sampling method. Data were collected during the period from May to August, 2007 by a semi-structured interview guide. Transcribed interview data were analyzed using Gi...

OBJECTIVE To verify the prevalence and identify the risk factors related to mental health problems among schoolchildren and its possible association with the beliefs and educational attitudes of parents/caretakers. METHODS Cross-sectional study with a stratified probabilistic sample (n=454) of first to third-graders from public and private schools in Southeastern Brazil. Standardized instrume...

BACKGROUND Child-rearing remains a concern within our communities, especially because families of today lack primary parents due to multifaceted challenges such as working mothers, diseases and violence. Health-promoting school initiatives are necessary because they allow a multifaceted approach to child-rearing. They further provide a conducive environment for continued schoolchild-rearing mov...

Using a representative sample from Japan and difference-in-differences strategy, we investigate whether the effect of having grandchildren on happiness grandparents varies with gender their (own) single child. In line our expectations, find that maternal grandmothers have more to lose or less gain than paternal grandmothers. contrast, grandfathers' changes in do not depend own child's gender. T...

Retrospective studies suggest a relationship between parental rearing practices and social phobia. The present study investigated whether socially anxious children perceive their current parental rearing as rejecting, overprotective, and lacking emotional warmth, and as emphasizing the importance of other's opinion, and de-emphasizing social initiatives and family sociability. Furthermore, we e...

Introduction In 1953 one of the ®rst child psychiatrists to be appointed at a university in The Netherlands, Theo Hart de Ruyter, proclaimed the necessity for all child therapists to have `eaten from the analytic manger’ in order to understand children’s expressions. 1 In retrospect one can say that this was proof of visionary understanding. Throughout the third quarter of the twentieth century...