CONTEXT The experiences of women who have negative emotional outcomes, including regret, following an abortion have received little research attention. Qualitative research can elucidate these women's experiences and ways their needs can be met and emotional distress reduced. METHODS Twenty-one women who had emotional difficulties related to an abortion participated in semi-structured, in-dep...

Objective The objective of this research was to investigate contemporary Chinese college students' perceptions the “good mother.” Background Increased lifestyle and self-fulfillment choices have recently become available for college-age students in China. However, there is government, societal, family pressure women be married, ideally by 25 years age, bear children as a patriotic socially stab...

Background: The Best Interest of the Child Questionnaire (BIC-Q) has been designed as an instrument for screening the quality of the rearing situation of asylum-seeking children. It is intended to aid legal decisions in asylum procedures. Aim: Aim of this study was to determine the reliability and the construct validity of the BIC-Q. Method: Based on a study sample of asylum-seeking children in...

OBJECTIVE This study's aim was to examine variables associated with different short-term trajectories in multiply disadvantaged adolescent mothers by investigating antecedents and concomitants of parenting stress. METHOD We followed 49 adolescent mothers (ages 14-18 at study outset) who were wards in Illinois foster care using a longitudinal correlational design. We examined whether parenting...

By investigating how educational practitioners participate in activities around open educational practices (OEP), this paper aims at contributing to an understanding of open practices and how these practitioners learn to use OEP. Our research is guided by the following hypothesis: Different social configurations support a variety of social learning activities. The social configuration of OEPs i...