STUDY OBJECTIVE To incorporate women's domestic trajectories and circumstances into analyses of the socioeconomic influences on women's smoking status (current and former smoking) in early adulthood. DESIGN Cross sectional survey. SETTING Southampton, UK. PARTICIPANTS 8437 women aged 25-34 recruited from 1998-2002 via patient lists of general practices. MAIN RESULTS Domestic lifecourse ...

This study assumes a dialogical perspective towards the processes of identity construction during the transition to motherhood, and it relies on a methodology that invites the participants to deal with the dualities of the dialogical self (Dialogical Articulation Task DAT). Using this semi-structured interview, we ask the participants to identify the various selfdescriptive dimensions of their ...

Rates of alcohol use disorders (AUD) are generally low among women who have ever had children (mothers) compared to women who have never had children (nonmothers), presenting a motherhood advantage. It is unclear if this advantage accrues to "Black" and "White" women alike. Using National Epidemiological Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions (NESARC) wave 2 cross-sectional data that is rich ...

The aim of this study was to analyze associations between demographic factors, family psychosocial characteristics, tobacco, alcohol, and other drug use, and adolescent motherhood. This was a case-control study in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul State, Brazil, with 431 adolescents 14 to 16 years of age who gave birth in 2009 (cases) and 862 adolescents who had never given birth (controls). Thre...

Maternal incarceration can be a disruptive process for the entire family. Incarcerated mothers experience stigma and are often regarded both as criminals who willingly abandoned their children. There have been several studies examining impact on children of incarcerated parents. However, synthesis qualitative exploring lived these women is lacking. This systematic review seeks to provide eviden...

the sampling method is simple random sampling. in order to measure women's social adjustment social adjustment scale (sas) was used.there is a significant relationship between women and motherhood in social attitudes. consensual relationships between people and tends to be a mother, there is a significant relationship. the social adjustment of status after marriage roles as wives and mothe...

Each year an estimated 500,000 to 600,000 women die due to complications from childbirth, making this one of the leading causes of death globally for women in their reproductive years. Few developing countries have experienced a documented significant decline in maternal mortality levels, despite a global initiative to address the problem. Honduras represents an exception. Between 1990 and 1997...

In 1987 a conference on safe motherhood in Nairobi, Kenya, drew international attention to alarmingly high levels of maternal death in childbirth in developing countries. Global levels are estimated to be between 500,000 and 600,000 per year, with approximately one-tenth of these deaths occurring in Nigeria alone. The conference ended with a call for a reduction in maternal mortality by half by...