The reduction and eventual elimination of child poverty has become one of the central objectives of the new Labour Government in Britain. Measures to achieve this by changing taxes and bene®ts and promoting paid work are described. Their effects are assessed using a micro-simulation model. The policy changes will achieve a signi®cant reduction in child poverty but it will remain in 2001 substan...

Background: Emotion regulation is necessary for psychological wellbeing and social functioning. The present study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of emotion regulation skills training on reducing aggressive and oppositional behaviors in children (4-6 years old) in Shiraz, City, Iran during the fall and winter of 2018-19. Methods: This was quasi-experimental study with pre-test & posttest d...

on 30th November but were weak, and labour was described as slow till 4 a.m. on 1 st December, when the nurse detected a swelling posteriorly and sent for the resident. He found the os very high up, the head presenting above the brim and difficult to feel, and a swelling posteriorly below presenting part. Not being sure of his diagnosis he sent for an ambulance to transfer the patient to the Ma...

the patient was a very large child, and that the labour at her birth was painful and tedious, lasting three days; the midwife in attendance then sent for a doctor, but before his arrival the child was born, so that no instrumental interference was resorted to. No special weakness or rigidity was noticed during infancy; but at two years of age, as she could not walk like other children, she was ...

BACKGROUND In developing countries, most childbirth occurs at home and is not assisted by skilled attendants. The situation increases the risk of death for both mother and child and has severe maternal complications. The purpose of this study was to describe women's perceptions of homebirths in the medical districts of Ouargaye and Diapaga. METHODS A qualitative approach was used to gather in...

All over the world, work of some kind is (and has always been) part of most children’s lives, as may be seen from the Introduction and many articles in this special issue of Childhood. At certain times and places, and in certain forms and relations of work, the exploitation and abuse of children’s capacity for work becomes a serious social problem. It is in this sense – the abuse of children in...

of Intra-uterine Peritonitis in the Fcetus. -The patient who had borne the child had the following history, as drawn np by Dr Mackay, House-Surgeon to the Maternity Hospital: ?" A. B., 25 years of age, second pregnancy, was, after a normal labour, delivered on 4th December (4.45 a.m.) of a female child weighing 6 lbs., which only lived an hour The patient, a pale emaciated woman, was found to h...

In 1998, nearly one-third of Vietnamese children engaged in non-housework labor supply, 95% of these working children residing in rural areas. This paper investigates the impact of child labour on children’s educational outcomes in rural Vietnam using the 1998-Vietnam Living Standard Survey. The paper finds that child labor lowers children’s academic performance and the negative impact is bigge...

regulation is a modern concept which has emerged out of and evolved in the context of economic development in general and the relationship between market and government in particular. it signifies a different meaning with the past. even nowadays we are faced with various meanings of regulation within the economic legal systems; meanings that have moved away from its early definition, and hence,...

Child Labour, the global phenomenon is still existing in India due to lack of proper execution programme and policies. Poverty, parental guidance, awareness about programs influence peer groups were key countless reasons, which create a barrier an individual as well societal development. Global information shows that boys more indulged labour market, however, trends have been changed now compar...