This study investigated relationships among mothers’ social support, individual attributes, social capital, and parenting practices for welfare-participating mothers with young children. Using data from the National Evaluation of Welfare-to-Work Strategies, latent profile analysis revealed three classes of mothers, reflecting high, moderate, and low patterns of social support. Overall, low supp...

The social communication and compliance patterns of 63 mothers interacting with their young children who had mild developmental delays in social play and instructional tasks were examined in a longitudinal study. Results were consistent with the hypothesis that mothers appropriately adjust their social communications in accordance with children's developmental characteristics and task demands. ...

This manuscript explores the unique construction of community that young, low-income, women create, based on embodied internal and external spaces they occupy as lone mothers. Issues related to diverse women’s representation, voice, power, within these socially constructed communities are examined. Attention is paid how young low-income mothers experience actively create their own supportive bo...

The measurement of cardiovascular functioning targets an important bridge between social conditions and differential well-being. Nevertheless, the biocultural, psychosocial processes that link human ecology to cardiovascular function in children remain inadequately characterized. Childrearing practices shaped by parents' cultural beliefs should moderate children's affective responses to daily e...

OBJECTIVE To examine social class inequalities in adverse perinatal events in Scotland between 1980 and 2000 and how these were influenced by other maternal risk factors. DESIGN Population based study using routine maternity discharge data. SETTING Scotland. PARTICIPANTS All women who gave birth to a live singleton baby in Scottish hospitals between 1980 and 2000 (n=1,282,172). MAIN OUT...

OBJECTIVES To assess changes between 1990 and 2000 in the circumstances of women who became mothers before the age of 18. DESIGN Two cross sectional probability sample surveys of the general population carried out in 1989-1991 (Natsal 1990) and 1999-2001 (Natsal 2000). SETTING British households. PARTICIPANTS Women aged 18 to 27 years at time of survey (Natsal 1990: 2575, Natsal 2000: 175...

The article examines the reproductive decisions of Russian urban middle?class women. We look at women’s lives in context pronatalist family policy and official conservative gender ideology 2019–2020. Based on biographical interviews with 35 young women, we focus working mothers. sample is composed mothers since their lifestyle serves as a cultural model for whole society. reconstruct everyday r...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the efficacy of a paraprofessional-delivered, home-visiting intervention among young, reservation-based American Indian (AI) mothers on parenting knowledge, involvement, and maternal and infant outcomes. METHOD From 2002 to 2004, expectant AI women aged 12 to 22 years (n = 167) were randomized (1:1) to one of two paraprofessional-delivered, home-visiting interventions: t...

objective: according to the significant role of mothers’ personality traits and their training styles on the genesis of children’s initial personality and destructive manners, present research compares early maladaptive schemas of mothers of children with attention-deficit/ hyperactivity disorder, mothers of children with oppositional defiant disorder, and mothers of normal children. methods: t...

there is a shift worldwide towards a diet that is high in processed foods and low in fiber, leading to a corresponding increase in degenerative diseases. these diseases are interrelated with lifestyles and especially with diets. the aim of this study was to investigate the eating habit differences between two generations of mothers and daughters and their tendency towards modern foods.in this c...