While domestic abuse is an all too common experience for women worldwide, how people the and their resources to deal with differ. In this qualitative, interview-based study, we examine Saudi women's safety concerns living in Arabia United States. Based on non-Western Islamic feminist views of agency, identify three key practices, focused resist or violence. For each practice, highlight interwov...

The aim of this study was to assess stress response symptoms in children of parents diagnosed with cancer 1-5 year prior to study entry. The impact of event scale was used to measure stress response symptoms in terms of intrusion and avoidance; the youth self-report assessed emotional and behavioural functioning; the state-trait anxiety inventory for children measured trait-anxiety. Participant...

HPV vaccination rates among adolescents in the United States lag behind some other developed countries, many of which routinely offer the vaccine in schools. We sought to assess mothers' willingness to have their adolescent daughters receive HPV vaccine at school. A national sample of mothers of adolescent females ages 11-14 completed our internet survey (response rate=66%). The final sample (n...

Dependent problem drinking, marital disruption and depressive symptoms of sons and daughters of alcohol abusers are examined in a representative sample of 1,772 adults in the United States. Controlling for the sociodemographic characteristics of the adult sons and daughters in logistic regression analyses and for the alcohol-related problems (e.g., alcohol dependence) of the sons and daughters ...

Warner’s article describes in detail the harsh economic conditions and powerful social restrictions women’s lives rural Spain. She notes that marriage rites of Spanish Church describe women as property their husbands. The ends with a tribute to fighting Civil War for Republicanism against tyranny fascism.