OBJECTIVE This study was performed to determine the rates of breast-feeding and/or bottle-feeding in mothers of twins, triplets and higher order multiple births compared to those in mothers of singletons, and identify factors associated with decision as to breast-feed or bottle-feed. METHODS The subjects were 1,529 mothers of twins aged 6 months-6 years and 258 mothers of triplets and higher ...

pas t twenty y e a r s or so. A l m o s t a l l these changes have occurred u n d e r the heading of "Chi ld Protection", a quite distinctive a n d identifiable w a y of doing chi ld welfare work w h i c h comes complete w i t h a n ideology of childhood, a set of professional procedures a n d practices based on beliefs about a phenomenon ent i t l ed "child abuse" a n d a n e w social w o r k ...

Family is a basic unit of the society and the main source of human development. The initial aim of the family is psychological and social support of its members and has special developmental stages. Researches show the families who have less cohesion, have more conflicts and maladjustments and the members of such families are not able to communicate effectively. Family is a system in which any ...

This article examines the cooperation and conflicts in the “intergenerational parenting coalition,” the practice of joint caregiving by parents and grandparents that is prevalent among contemporary urban Chinese families. The author argues that a pattern of “yan mu ci zu” (grandparents feed, mothers teach) has emerged in the intergenerational parenting coalition. Specifically, young mothers act...

Thirty-one young adults (17-23 years of age) with Down syndrome participated in two self-imposed delay of gratifi cation trials. Thirty-six and forty-eight percent waited for the experimenter to return (15 minutes) on Trials 1 and 2 respectively, and thirty-six percent waited for the experimenter on both occasions. Expressive language differentiated those who waited from those who did not. A di...