The issue of parents’ psychological well-being, ability to recognize their physical and emotional resources, avoid exhaustion those resources has become increasingly important. In this context self-compassion could be resource for parents implement positive parenting approaches encourage contact with the child. aim research was examine whether there is an association between perceptions child r...

This chapter identifies measures that can be used to capture status and change in the quality and quantity of early caregiver-child interactions. Because maternal drug abuse often necessitates the use of alternative caregivers for the child, through either legal or informal arrangements, the measures discussed herein are suitable for the biological mother, father, or grandparent; professional f...

Fertility declines across Europe and the Anglo-world have been explained as the result of reversals of intergenerational flows of wealth. According to this theory, the child was transformed from an economically-useful household asset to an emotionally-valued parental burden. This article is based on a comparative study of changing understandings of parenthood in three provincial English localit...

Objective: More female physicians are participating at the workplace in Japan; however, due to the difficulty in balancing work and childrearing, there is the major issue of low retention. Therefore, maintaining work–life balance (WLB) is an urgent topic for child-rearing female physicians as they often need to work long hours. This study investigated WLB satisfaction factors among childrearing...

BACKGROUND Parental relationship dissolutions have repeatedly been linked to negative outcomes for children, but predictors of parental dissolutions have been far less studied. Knowledge about parental dissolutions occurring after the early years of parenthood is especially sparse. The aim of the current study was to investigate whether a broad set of predictors from families of toddlers were a...