Objective 1) To describe young men's knowledge of infant routines, discipline, development, safety, sleep, and nutrition, using items assessing the American Academy Pediatrics Bright Futures: Guidelines for Health Supervision Infants, Children, Adolescents. 2) report differences in between fathers non-fathers. 3) examine factors associated with greater knowledge. Methods Participants were men (...

AIM To investigate whether mothers and fathers of children with intellectual disability differ when it comes to resistance factors (deailing with stress, marital quality, personality traits) and adjustement (psychical symptoms and subjective health complaints, pleasant and unpleasant mood). SUBJECTS AND METHODS The researchencompassed 30 married couples, 30 mathers and 30 fathers, all of wich...

survey of influencial factors on age of puberty of high   school students in neyshabour     m. vafaei [1] , m. sadat hoseini [2] , r. froutan [3]     abstract:   introduction: puberty is a period that the children's body undergo kind of change so children change to puberty.   almost the average age for boy puberty is 12 years old. psychologists said: puberty is eventful obliging for a good...

Background and aims: The importance of fathers’ participation for development of the child and the well-being of the family is recognized from earlier research. In Sweden, legislation allows fathers to share the parental leave equally with the mother even so fathers only use a small of their paid leave. The aim of the study was to explore experiences of the first year as a father. Method: A phe...

OBJECTIVE To determine the impact that a 6-year maternal and child health project in rural Honduras had on maternal health services and outcomes, and to test the effect of level of father involvement on maternal health. METHODS This was a program evaluation conducted through representative household surveys administered at baseline in 2007 and endline in 2011 using 30 cluster samples randomly...

BACKGROUND Early childhood interventions can have both immediate and long-term positive effects on cognitive, behavioural, health and education outcomes. Fathers are underrepresented in interventions focusing on the well-being of children. However, father participation may be critical for intervention effectiveness, especially for parenting interventions for child externalising problems. To dat...

Background: Mothers’ and fathers’ participation in nonstandard employment across children’s lives is not well understood the United Kingdom. Objective: The first objective to describe prevalence of work schedules (e.g., evenings, weekends, nights) among employed mothers fathers using longitudinal data. second document education gradient parental over decade a child’s life. Methods: Linear proba...

BACKGROUND Childhood mortality has remained a major challenge to public health amongst families in Nigeria and other developing countries. The menace of incessant childhood mortality has been a major concern and this calls for studies to generate new scientific evidence to determine its prevalence and explore predisposing factors associated with it in Nigeria. METHOD Data was obtained from Ni...

Discussion of transmission of socio-economic status from parents to children needs to consider gender differences in both generations. We consider each parent and their different links to outcomes for boys and girls using data for 30 countries. We relate children‟s cognitive ability recorded in tests of maths, science and reading at age 15 to the years of education of mothers and of fathers, co...

BACKGROUND It is well established that mothers' education has positive effects on child nutrition in developing countries. Less explored is the effect exerted by the education of other individuals--mothers' friends, neighbours and family. OBJECTIVES To examine independent effects of mothers', fathers' and grandmothers' education on child height-for-age and weight-for-age z-score, and the role...