Introduction Previous studies have established a relation between childhood maltreatment and eating disorder behaviors. However, this pattern of relations has not yet been studied within the nuclear family interactions. Objectives The aim study was to examine model illuminating transgenerational mechanism underlying association Methods One-hundred-sixty-eight Israeli mothers their young-adult-d...

Multiple lines of research indicate that fathers often treat boys and girls differently in ways that impact child outcomes. The complex picture that has emerged, however, is obscured by methodological challenges inherent to the study of parental caregiving, and no studies to date have examined the possibility that gender differences in observed real-world paternal behavior are related to differ...

Washington (2008) finds that daughters promote liberal voting (at least with respect to women’s issues) among U.S. Congress members and attributes this finding to socialization. However, daughters’ influence could manifest differently for elite politicians and the general citizenry either due to selfselection or the Trivers-Willard Hypothesis, which suggests that parents invest differently in m...

OBJECTIVES To describe how adult sons and daughters report and perceive parental deaths from heart disease DESIGN Two generation family study. SETTING West of Scotland. SUBJECTS 1040 sons and 1298 daughters aged 30-59 from 1477 families, whose fathers and mothers were aged 45-64 in 1972-76 and have been followed up for mortality over 20 years. OUTCOME Perception of a "family weakness" a...

BACKGROUND Despite increased recognition of the important influences of women's status and empowerment on social and health outcomes for women and their families, there are few investigations that examine the extent to which any gains in women's empowerment may be transmitted intergenerationally, that is, between mothers and their daughters. METHODS This study seeks to address this gap by usi...

three generations of women (3570 daughters, 1148 mothers and 131 grandmothers) from tehran, iran have been studied for menarcheal age. the results show that the age of onset of menarche has decreased in the present generation- 13.599, compared to 13.690 and 13.870 years, amount their mothers and grandmothers, respectively. these results, when compared with results obtained concerning the other ...

Theoretical weights for prediction of a son's genetic evaluation from genetic evaluations of his sire and dam are derived. Weights for sire and dam are equal and depend on number of daughters of the son when the bull evaluation is from his daughters alone and cow evaluation is from her records alone. Mixed model procedures which incorporate records of other relatives change theoretical weights....