I was appalled, if not surprised, to see the publication of Donald Sullins' study, " Invisible Victims: Delayed Onset Depression among Adults with Same-Sex Parents " in Depression Research and Treatment (2016) [1]. Sullins claims that having same-sex parents increases the likelihood of suffering from depression, abuse, parental distance, and obesity and concludes that households with gay or les...

This paper analyzes the effects of income shocks on households’ chances becoming headed by women and its female-headed poverty vulnerability in Brazilian metropolitan regions. For that, unemployment rate was used as an shock, considering both positive negative variations general economy sectors that mostly employ men women. The results suggest decrease female household headship, while ones cann...

Background: Achievement of food security has become one of the major challenges of most developing countries, including Zimbabwe. This study was designed to investigate the effect of agricultural commercialization on household food security. Methods: This study used cross-sectional data for the 2017/18 farming season collected from 165 smallholder farmer households in Zhombe north rural distric...

background: although most studies on female-headed families focus on women's access to social support, the associations between social capital and quality of life in these families are unclear in many societies (such as iran). this study aimed to determine the associations between social capital and quality of life in iranian female headed families.   methods : this cross-sectional study was pe...