constant breastfeeding that depends on the family support. fathers' involvement is as an important factor of successful breastfeeding. the aim of this study was to evaluate the influence of fathers' participation in constant breastfeeding in vali-e-asr hospital, tehran, iran. this interventional study was piloted on spouses of pregnant women participating in pregnancy courses. the case group co...

background: health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. social, economic and cultural factors are main effective factors on person’s health. as university students are the spiritual resources of each society and the future manufacturers of their own country, the present study aimed to determine the predictive factors f...

objectives: the present study was carried out in consideration of the decisive role of family variables in the development, persistence and treatment of psychological disorders, and the nature of the relationship between disorders and drug abuse, and the significance of these relationships in planning treatment and preventive measures. method: family characteristics and the role of these variab...

Using the baseline father sample of the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Survey (n=3,525), I consider how father type and presence and biological father involvement is associated with new father's attitudes toward fathering, testing the modeling and compensatory hypotheses. Results generally support the modeling hypothesis. Relative to new fathers who had a very involved coresidential fathe...

Judith Tonhauser, The Ohio State University This talk explores the meaning of the Paraguayan Guaranı́ reportative evidential clitic =ndaje, based on corpus data and data collected in fieldwork, and compares its distribution and meaning to that of (reportative) evidential markers in e.g. St’át’imcets (Matthewson et al. 2007), Quechua (Faller 2002, 2007), Cheyenne (Murray 2010), and Tagalog (Schwa...

Due to the pressure of society on boys as future heads households, in addition trend masculinity crisis and male underachievement education, single parents bear massive burden parenting, educating nurturing without presence their fathers. Single mothers must prepare specific strategies fulfil boys’ need for a father figure. This study aims provide an overview mothers' parenting sons. uses quali...

the purpose of present research was comparing tendency to risky behaviours in secure/insecure attachment in parents (mother/father). the results showed that those showing insecure attachment patterns towards the mother were significantly higher at risk to become cigarette smokers, drug persuasion, and alcohol drinkers compared to those with secure attachment patterns. those showing insecure att...