This paper we examine intra-household gender differences and the incidence of child labor and children’s school attendance in Brazil to test whether the unitary model of household allocations is suitable in the child labor context. We begin by building an intra-household allocation model where fathers and mothers may affect the education investment and the child labor participation of their son...

OBJECTIVE Using a feminist social constructionist perspective, we illuminate how aging mothers and their caregiving daughters negotiate issues of connection, autonomy, and conflict. METHODS We conducted a qualitative analysis of videotaped interactions between 31 White mother-daughter pairs. RESULT We found that the mothers and daughters mostly (a) were attentive and responsive, (b) preserv...

This study investigated the influence on their mental well-being of the perinatal support given by Japanese grandmothers. The Rosenberg self-esteem and the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression (CES-D) scales were used to assess grandmothers' mental well-being before and after their daughters' childbirth. Of 198 grandmothers, 176 (88.9%) supported their daughters and three patterns of per...

PURPOSE Parent-child conversations about human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine may provide parents with the opportunity to talk with their daughters about sexual health. We sought to characterize mothers' communication with their adolescent daughters about HPV vaccine. METHODS We surveyed 609 mothers of girls aged between 11 and 20 years living in North Carolina in Fall 2008. We used logistic re...

Cervical cancer is a preventable public health problem. The two new human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines are available but not accessible to everyone in South Africa, as they are very expensive. This study aimed to investigate educated peoples acceptability regarding HPV vaccination. This was a cross-sectional survey conducted among 146 master of business administration students by self-administ...

Maternal Gender Role Attitudes, Human Capital Investment, and Labour Supply of Sons and Daughters Using data from the 1970 British Cohort Study, we investigate the role of maternal gender role attitudes in explaining the differential educational expectations mothers have for their daughters and sons, and consequently their children’s later educational outcomes and labour supply. We find that mo...

STUDY QUESTION Do daughters of women with endometriosis exhibit an increased risk of endometriosis and impaired long-term reproductive prognosis when compared with daughters of women without endometriosis? SUMMARY ANSWER Daughters of women with endometriosis have over a 2-fold higher risk of endometriosis but no difference in long-term reproductive prognosis compared with controls. WHAT IS ...