A simmering crisis in the Nigerian agriculture today involves labour and the crisis manifests itself in the degree of labour availability, labour demand and labour productivity. One of the major products of this crisis is the increased participation of children in paid, non-familiar agricultural jobs. Agriculture ranks as one of the three most dangerous work activities, along with mining and co...

This article examines a model of family relations, namely the “mother-child” dyad, built on basis study lateral profile normo-typical adolescents and their mothers. Testing position postures (comparing interlacing fingers, crossing arms chest, aiming applauding) revealed highly significant inverse correlation for leading eye. suggests that there is interaction between structures brain mother ch...

the prevalence of child abuse in the world is 47 per 1000. according to the child protective service agency (cps) more than 3 million children were abused in the usa in 1998. there was 1.7% increase in comparison with 1996. the prevalence of child abuse in the usa is 15 per 1000. a crosssectional study was conducted in order to determine the frequency, and influential factors on child abuse amo...

Children's participation rights, enshrined in the UN Convention on Rights of Child (1989), have been a popular area research, policy and practice for decades. Despite great deal interest activity, rights posed particular challenge to implement. In response, researchers consistently called more in-depth nuanced analyses way participatory are actually lived experienced by children young people, w...

Examined associations between effortful control temperament and externalizing problems in 220 3-year-old boys and girls, controlling for co-occurring cognitive and social risk factors. We also considered possible additive and/or interactive contributions of child dispositional anger and psychosocial adversity, and whether relations between effortful control and early externalizing problems were...

My presentation deals with an issue which, although deemed crucial, has hardly been addressed successfully to date: how to effectively protect children against harm while at the same time building cooperative relations with their parents and working as far as possible in partnership with them. I will discuss the Italian situation, but I will first place the issue in the context of two approache...

In this study, we explored the relations between positive and negative family expressiveness, parental emotion coaching, child emotion regulation, and child aggression. The sample included 120 fourth-grade children and their mothers. Mothers completed the Emotion Regulation Checklist, the Family Expressiveness Questionnaire, and a portion of the meta-emotion interview to assess their awareness ...

Past research has empirically linked the experience of raising a disabled child to high levels of parental stress, depression, social isolation, psychological maladjustment, and child maltreatment. Findings from this research indicate that the cumulative influence of these factors may significantly affect the child-caregiver attachment relationship. Likewise, exposure to medical intervention, r...