Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to report the results of a randomized controlled trial designed to measure the impact of a parental training program on the nutritional status of primary school students in rural Shaanxi Province, in northwest China. Design/methodology/approach – Using hemoglobin (Hb) levels as the outcome variable, the authors first measure the overall impact of a nutriti...

To enhance children's health, the promotion of nutrition literacy in school is vital as it helps prevent development health conditions and diseases maintain healthy lifestyles. Taiwan features top highest ratio convenience stores per population density. Convenience stores, an increasingly popular dining place, were linked to eating behavior body weight issues children. An eight-week classroom-b...

self-concept component and its relationship with family structure and perceived parental rearing practices was examined in a sample of 163 adolescents ( 87 girls and 76 boys, aged 16 years old) selected randomly from high schools in tabriz. the subjects completed tennessee self-concept scale with 84 items and a 77-item inventory measuring parental rearing practices. results revealed no signific...

Results: The prevalence of parental death was 27.3% overall: 22.4% reported a father deceased, 7.9% reported a mother deceased, and 3.0% reported both parents deceased. Parental death was disproportionately associated with black ethnicity, impoverished household living conditions, lack of an adult guardian in the home, and not completing compulsory education levels. Controlling for sociodemogra...

BACKGROUND Parental history of type 2 diabetes (T2D) is associated with cardiometabolic risk. We aimed to investigate the associations of parental history of T2D with cardiometabolic biomarkers and to subsequently investigate to what extent these putative associations were explained by modifiable factors. MATERIALS AND METHODS Cross-sectionally, we analysed a random sample of 2001 participant...

food allergy is a common disorder especially in the first years of life. strict avoidance of the responsible food is the most effective therapeutic measure so far. but this continuous vigilance could be stressful for the patient and family and decreases their quality of life (qol). this survey was designed to evaluate the impact of ige-mediated food allergy on parental qol in iranian patients a...

This paper analyzes the strategies employed by households in rural China to allocate educational expenditure to children of dierent endowment, examining whether parents use educational funding to reinforce or compensate for variation in endowment. Employing climatic shocks as an instrument for children's endowment yields results indicating that parental expenditure is preferentially directed to...

Ethnic school segregation exists. In The Netherlands, in other countries of Europe and in other parts of the world. It seems that it is partly caused by the freedom of parents to choose a school for their children. The result is a growing segregation between children with different cultural backgrounds. Proof is found for a white flight in The Netherlands, Denmark and the United Kingdom [1]. Co...

Much of the evolutionary literature on human mating is based on the assumption of extensive female choice during the history of our species. However, ethnographic evidence from foraging societies reveals that, in societies thought to be akin to those of our ancestors, female choice is constrained by the control that parents exercise over their daughters. Data from 190 hunting and gathering soci...

The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child has criticised Australia (and many other countries) in State Reports released in 1997, 2005 and, most recently, 2011, for not introducing a ban on corporal punishment by parents of their children in line with Article 19 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (‘CROC’). In light of this criticism, and the clear recommendation to ban parental co...