BACKGROUND Employment participation of mothers of young children has steadily increased in developed nations. Combining work and family roles can create conflicts with family life, but can also bring enrichment. Work-family conflict and enrichment experienced by mothers may also impact children's home environments via parenting behaviour and the couple relationship, particularly in the early ye...

Poor complementary feeding practices contribute to infants and young children (IYC) malnutrition, with lack of protein-containing food and micronutrients as major concerns. A cross-sectional survey was conducted to assess the dietary diversity, nutrient contents and use of pulse crops in complementary feeding at Taba kebele, Southern Ethiopia. A questionnaire was used to collect socio-demograph...

Potential determinants of bone mass were investigated in a group of 70 young females (mean age 26.6 years), daughters of women studied in premenopause. Nutritional data, leisure physical activity level, lifestyle habits as well as familial similarities were assessed. The daughters' bone mineral density (BMD), measured by dual-energy absorptiometry, was significantly correlated with their body m...

Children (N = 18) between 11h and 3 years were videotaped in dyadic interaction with their 4or 5-year-old older siblings, their 7or 8-year-old older siblings, and their mothers. The child-directed speech of the three groups of older speakers was analyzed for characteristics generally thought to be supportive of young children's language development and in terms of its relation to the age of the...

BACKGROUND Co-participation in physical activity may be a useful strategy for increasing physical activity in mothers and their young children, yet little empirical evidence exists on this topic for young families. This study aimed to identify the prevalence of mother-child co-participation in physical activity and examine the association between co-participatory behaviours and objectively-asse...

OBJECTIVE To examine the impact on infant and young child nutrition knowledge and practice of mothers who were neighbors of mothers participating in a nutrition Behavior Change Communication (BCC) intervention in rural Bangladesh. METHODS We analyzed data from 300 mothers whose neighbor participated in a nutrition BCC intervention and 600 mothers whose neighbor participated in an intervention...

The purpose of this study was to examine the similarity in chronic regulatory focus (promotion/prevention) among mothers and daughters young, middle, older ages. A survey conducted using shortened 10- item form Japanese version promotion/prevention scale, 77 sets grandmothers (77.79 ± 5.61 years), their (49.26 4.12 granddaughters (20.17 3.89 years) were studied as a part analysis. I compared sc...

Objective In this study, we investigated the interplay of positive work conditions with parenting behaviors across children's first 4 years. Background Most mothers in United States are employed paid during their early Research typically has focused on ways that such employment can conflict intensive demands parenting, but it also help socially and psychologically important period development. ...