This article reports findings from an ethnographic study of pre-birth child protection, conducted in urban Scottish setting. The was designed to explore the interactions between practitioners and families context protection involvement during a pregnancy. research aimed understand activities that constituted assessment, meaning attached those by social workers expectant parents. Very different ...

Evidence-based parenting interventions have been developed and evaluated largely with mothers. This study examined practitioner reports of rates of father attendance, barriers to engagement, organizational support for father-inclusive practice, participation in training in father engagement, and competencies in working with fathers. It also explored predictors of practitioner competence and rat...

OBJECTIVE To identify the experiences, knowledge, behaviors and emotions of fathers with relation to the process of breastfeeding. METHODS This is a descriptive, explorative and qualitative study involving 17 couples resident in a favela in the city of Recife, PE, in the Northeast of Brazil, whose most recent child was aged between 6 and 8 months. A semi-structured interview employing leading...

INTRODUCTION One of the ethical issues surrounding birth cohort studies is how to obtain informed assent from children as they grow up. What and how parents tell their children affects children's future choices about the study, yet few studies have focused on parents' influence on children. OBJECTIVE This study examines parents' attitudes towards telling their children about their participati...

The article explores the participation of women in Jewish national movement: their family roles, activism and images narratives movement. sources scholarship movement often mentioned an important role its women. However, for all great numbers these women, they were not seen as independent actors: struggle was husbands sons. Activism self–sacrifice notwithstanding, viewed that helpers, this fact...

Although engaging fathers effectively can bolster and sustain treatment outcomes, participate in their children’s at lower rates than mothers have been left out of the literature on caregiver engagement. Because provider attitudes behaviors shape course treatment, therapist perspectives father attendance engagement should be investigated. A mixed-method study design examined predictors Parent-C...