The sociological studies on the concept of mothering have not been of much interest in Iran, so far. Thus, the current study has aimed at investigation of the lived experience of the mothers and the fathers working in Tehran. We, in the current study, have not investigated the motherhood, but we have addressed the mothering (the maternal role), through 31 field interviews with 15 couples and a ...

AIM This was to investigate the role of the mother-child interaction as a factor in nursing caries. METHODS A convenience sample of 34 parents whose children had been diagnosed with nursing caries (Early Childhood Caries, ECC) was gathered. A series of non-structured interviews with parents were conducted. The interviews were transcribed and analysed using Grounded Theory. RESULTS The overa...

this study is a correlation research carried out in order to determine pregnant women's attitude towards the   mothering role and its relationship to the onset and duration of nausea and vomiting .   this study included 130 women who were patients , at health treatment centers in the city of sari had   previous delivery and had no known physical or psychological illness at the time of the ...

OBJECTIVE This article examines ethnic similarities and differences in profiles of mother-child interaction qualities for low-income African American and Latin American mothers and associations with preschoolers' emerging school readiness. DESIGN Videotaped mother-child interactions were collected at age 2.5 years from a sample of African American (n = 192) and Latin American (n = 210) famili...

OBJECTIVE This study examined the occupations of mothering very young children with physical disabilities. METHOD Two single, urban, Black mothers in their mid-20s were interviewed with a semistructured protocol. The audiotaped, transcribed data were analyzed with a phenomenological method. RESULTS The context of the challenging urban environment was a constant influence that shaped the par...

The transfer of immunity from mother to offspring is widespread in animals. The father's contribution to this is usually negligible. However, in a sex-role reversed pipefish where fathers do the mothering, fathers make an important immune priming contribution, too.

Sociological literature has begun to examine how mothers occupying non-normative positions negotiate the transmission of cultural capital and habitus, norms good mothering shape this process. However, less is known about second-generation mothers’ experiences, despite evidence changing gender relations within ethnic minority communities. Drawing on interviews with British-born South-Asian who h...

A basic principle of animal production is that individual performance is determined by genetic makeup and environmental conditions. Accordingly, individuals with above average phenotypes can result from superior genotypes, favourable environments, or both. Prior to weaning, it is the prenatal and then milking and mothering ability of the dam that provides an important component of a young anima...

Abstract Following Bourdieu, residential location as habitat may provide spatial profit when it matches with a habitus – but how? How can we conceptualize situations of mismatch between and habitus, what they mean for urban inequalities? This article explores this topic through the lens mothering practices in elementary schools. Qualitative interviews two neighbourhoods Berlin, Germany, suggest...