BACKGROUND Females genital mutilation is one of the harmful traditional practices affecting the health of women and children. It has a long-term physiological, sexual and psychological effect on women. Females' genital mutilation still remains to be a serious problem for large proportion of women in most sub-Saharan Africa countries including Ethiopia. The objective of the study was to identify...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to explore the experiences of transnational Latina mothers who immigrated to the United States without legal documentation or their children. DESIGN The study used a qualitative approach to collect data from eight transnational Latina mothers from South Florida during the summer of 2009. METHODS Data were collected using open-ended questions in one-on-o...

This paper investigates calling melodies produced by 21 Standard German native speakers on a discourse completion task across two contexts: (i) routine context—calling a child from afar to come in for dinner; (ii) urgent context—calling a child from afar for a chastising. The intent of this investigation is to bring attention to other calling melodies found in German beside the vocative chant a...