Main results 10.3% of participants were depressed at follow up. Multiple disadvantages in early life were associated with depression (odds ratio [OR] 5.1, 95% CI 2.1 to 12.0). More women than men had depression (OR 2.7, CI 1.1 to 6.3). Types of disadvantages that were associated with depression were social dependence and overcrowding (OR 5.1, CI 2.1 to 12.0), poor physical care and poor motheri...

Self regulation ability is an important component of school readiness and predictor of academic success, but few studies of self regulation examine contributions of fathering to the emergence of self regulation in low-income ethnic minority preschoolers. Associations were examined between parental child-oriented parenting support and preschoolers' emerging self regulation abilities in 224 low-i...

Here we tested whether there was genetic moderation of effects of early maternal sensitivity on social-emotional and cognitive-linguistic development from early childhood onward and whether any detected Gene × Environment interaction effects proved consistent with differential-susceptibility or diathesis-stress models of Person × Environment interaction (N = 695). Two new approaches for evaluat...

As primary carers of children, mothers provide a central role in mediating and negotiating children’s digital media use the home. In parental mediation research, this work is often reported with gender-neutral tone, implying both parents play an equal role. This study challenges bias by unmasking practices experiences mothers. Qualitative interviews revealed bound maternal desires to protect, g...

We use data from two waves of the National Survey of Families and Households to investigate changes in mothering behavior associated with union formation among single mothers. We consider three dimensions of mothering: (1) time and supervision; (2) discipline and decisionmaking; and (3) relationship quality. Our major finding is that union formation and/or the disruption of new unions have very...

Objective The aim of the study was to facilitate understanding and interpretation multiple aspects working with mothers by examining Finnish mothers' mothering discourses interplay among these discourses. Background According relational dialectics theory, are systems meaning that coproduced in interaction. Although discursive research on motherhood has identified various discourses, competing i...

Early experiences exert their effects on adult parental behavior in part by altering the development of neurobiological mechanisms that initiate or support the initiation and sustenance of adult parental behavior. The effects of parental behavior on sensory, perceptual and emotional mechanisms in offspring constitute an experientially based mechanism by which neurobiological factors regulating ...