Since 1942 the United States Supreme Court has on several occasions considered individual rights related to sexual activity, and the extent to which the government permissibly may infringe these rights.' The individual's rights to make personal decisions regarding abortion and contraception free from governmental intrusion derive from a broader and more fundamental right of privacy 2 that the C...

This study considered the measurement properties of two indigenous constructs assessing Chinese parenting and parent–child relationships. The study also examined whether the relationships between guanjiao, xiao, and adolescent psychosocial adjustment, as theorized in previous scholarly work, hold for contemporary families in mainland China. Data were collected from a sample of 144 early adolesc...

Why some species exhibit remarkable variation among populations while closely related species are relatively uniform remains unclear. The strawberry dart-poison frog (Dendrobates pumillo) exhibits spectacular color and pattern polmorphism among populations in the Bocas del Toro archipelago of Panama. In contrast, two other sympatric species of dart-poison frog, Phyllobates lugubris and Minyobat...

Males typically have greater variance in reproductive success than females, so mothers should benefit by producing sons under favorable conditions. Being paired with a better-than-average mate is one such favorable circumstance. High-quality fathers can improve conditions for their offspring by providing good genes, good resources, or both, so females paired to such males should invest preferen...

Bullying is an aggressive behavior that often found among school children, especially teenagers. One of the factors influence bullying parental parenting. Another factor plays a role in locus control. The study aimed to analyze parenting on adolescents moderated by subjects were 203 students at one private junior high schools Kulon Progo, DIY. sampling method used total sampling. data this was ...

background: bringing up children is one of the most complicated responsibilities an adult experience in his/her life. however, most people are not completely prepared to be a parent. current study was carried out to analyze the attitude of participants toward becoming parent. methods: this is a descriptive study in which questionnaire 1-1-pi which is consisted of 32 items was used. sampling met...

Research suggests that parental warmth and positive parent-child interactions predict the development of conscience and empathy. Recent studies suggest that affective dimensions of parenting, including parental warmth, are associated with fewer behavior problems among children with high levels of callous-unemotional (CU) behavior. Evidence also suggests that CU behavior confers risk for behavio...

Parental knowledge is a key protective factor for youths' risky behavior. Little is known about how longitudinal combinations of knowledge-related behaviors are associated with youths' substance use. This longitudinal study uses Latent Transition Analysis to identify latent patterns of parental knowledge-related behaviors occurring in mother-youth dyads during middle school and to investigate h...

BACKGROUND Parental characteristics that influence child physical activity (PA) behavior often co-occur. An analytic approach that considers these co-occurring patterns can help researchers better understand the overall context of parental influence. The study aims were to: (1) identify diverse patterns of the relationships among parental characteristics, (2) examine the influence of these pare...