Immigrant women face numerous, and sometimes insurmountable, barriers in reporting and seeking services for intimate partner violence (IPV). A number of these obstacles relate to immigration laws, policies and legal processes they encounter due to their immigration status and sponsorship relationship. The present study was conducted in Canada, in an urban centre that boasts one of the largest i...

This study was designed to identify maternal characteristics associated with smoking during pregnancy and inappropriate gestational weight gain. Data were collected retrospectively from records of 252 women enrolled in the Siouxland WIC (Women, Infants, and Children) program in Sioux City, Iowa. Twenty-three percent of women reported smoking during pregnancy. Forty-four percent of women gained ...

This study seeks to identify, analyze and strengths of policies related to children with disabilities in Iran, the Islamic world and the international level From Sociological Point of view that can finally provide interventions to improve the situation of children with disabilities in Iran. Research method is qualitative and research approaches are also exploratory and content analysis. After i...

The legalization of abortion in the United States has brought a dramatic improvement in women's health and reductions in maternal and infant mortality. For young women, low-income women, and women of color, however, access to abortion has been increasingly restricted. This article describes the obstacles to abortion access, including lack of federal funding; restrictive laws, encompassing those...

To cite: Rowlands S. J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care 2015;41:164–167. INTRODUCTION Access to safe abortion is a part of women’s human rights. It has been clearly shown that access to legal abortion improves physical and mental health outcomes both for women and for children. Abortion laws are therefore an important subject for consideration and investigation in a comparative fashion. This articl...

What Determines Family Structure? We estimate the effects of policy and labor market variables on the fertility, union formation and dissolution, type of union (cohabiting versus married), and partner choices of the NLSY79 cohort of women. These demographic behaviors interact to determine the family structure experienced by the children of these women: living with the biological mother and the ...

Women and children are groups that vulnerable to acts of violence. National international laws have provided protection for women from In addition, customary law as one the rights origin also provides protection. West Sumatra, is through contained in Undang-Undang nan Salapan Petatah Petitih exist lives society. Through nagari government, resolution violence against settlements mild nature. Mea...

This lecture introduces testing methods for the protection of children in vehicles. In order to reduce the fatalities and injuries of children in transportation state of the art child protection is mandatory. Global laws and regulations such as ECE or FMVSS are introduced and compared with New Car Assessment programs (NCAP). Engineering tools and equipment to test according to global child prot...

Difficult questions arise in the wake of Roe's reversal, not least respect how fundamental rights, laws, and social policies will have to be amended address dark practicalities legalizing state-enforced births relinquishments. Templates blueprints already exist: these can found amongst harrowing testimonies many women children who survived "mother baby homes" "orphanages" over past century, var...