BACKGROUND Nutritional status differs between infants and young children living in slum and non-slum conditions-infants and young children living in City Corporation slums are likely to have worse nutritional status compared to those from non-slums. Furthermore, families in slums tend to engage female labor in cash-earning activities as a survival strategy; hence, a higher percentage of mothers...

Aims: The “U Mob Yarn Up” project emerged from expressed needs of young Indigenous mothers at Townsville Aboriginal and Islander Health Service (TAIHS), and investigated attitudes and behaviours of young Indigenous people around relationships and pregnancy. Method: An innovative consultative methodology and participatory action techniques were used. A Young Mums’ Group functioned as project des...

Adoption is rare in animals and is usually attributed to kin selection. In a 6-year study of eastern grey kangaroos (Macropus giganteus), 11 of 326 juveniles were adopted. We detected eight adoptions by observing behavioural associations and nursing between marked mothers and young and three more by analysing the relatedness of mothers and young using microsatellite DNA. Four adoptions involved...

Mothers of young children are at risk for depressive symptoms due to their gender and status as parents of young children. The primary purposes of this study were: (1) to assess the prevalence of depressive symptoms in a sample of mothers with young children; (2) to identify sociodemographic correlates of depressive symptoms among the women; and (3) to determine if chronic stress is associated ...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To describe Latina mothers' acceptance of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine for their daughters and explore their knowledge base regarding HPV-related issues. DESIGN Individual interviews were conducted with a convenience sample of 40 Latina mothers of daughters 7-14 years old, from an urban, pediatric primary care clinic. Preliminary questions were asked regarding HPV kn...

The purpose of this study was to examine how mothers with young children who were living in low-income households used discursive strategies to explain their children's injury and near-miss events. In-person interviews were conducted with 17 mothers and a discourse analytic approach was used to analyze the data. Mothers used a variety of discursive strategies to explain injury events including ...

BACKGROUND Brazil has witnessed dramatic changes in its fertility patterns in recent decades. The decline to below-replacement fertility has been accompanied by increases in the proportion of children born to young mothers. Yet we know little about the well-being of children born to young mothers in Brazil. OBJECTIVE AND METHODS Using data from the 2006 Pesquisa Nacional de Demografia e Saúde...

OBJECTIVES To determine if hours of daily television viewed by varying age groups of young children with Hispanic mothers differs by maternal language preference and to compare these differences with young children with white mothers. DESIGN Cross-sectional analysis of data collected in 2000 from the National Survey of Early Childhood Health. SETTING Nationally representative sample. PART...