Being a young mother has long-term consequences even during the life of and child in foster care, this hurts both child. The purpose review is to look at how childcare mothers uses methodology recommended by Arksey O'Malley. 11 relevant articles discussed found key concepts grouped into three main themes namely parenting behavior, stress, need. Adolescent with higher social support have more kn...

Abbot JM, Byrd-Bredbenner C. Development of a Self-Directed Home Kitchen Makeover for Mothers of Young Children. The Forum. 2009;14:1-7. Available online at: www.ncsu.edu/ffci This paper describes formative research guiding the development of an intervention designed to improve the ability of mothers of young children to plan, prepare, and serve healthy family meals. Interviews showed that the ...

Many researchers and clinicians have promoted nap taking to combat the deleterious effects of disrupted sleep. Unfortunately, only a small portion of sleep-deprived individuals take naps. The goal of the present study was to identify cognitive and opportunity factors related to nap taking of mothers of young infants. Fifty-one mothers of young infants completed measures that recorded various ch...

Chinese family is a patriarchal power system. How the system influences young mothers' agency in managing family men's smoking is unknown. Applying a gender lens, this ethnographic study explored how mothers of young children in Chinese extended families reacted to men's smoking. The study sample included 29 participants from 22 families. Semi-structured interviews and field observations were t...

Mothers who are concerned about their young child's weight are more likely to use restrictive feeding, which has been associated with increased food seeking behaviors, emotional eating, and overeating in young children across multiple prospective and experimental studies. In the present study, we examined whether mothers' intuitive eating behaviors would moderate the association between their c...