Abstract Background ADHD affects 7.8% of the school-aged population, making it one most common childhood brain illnesses. It is characterized by abnormally high levels inattention, activity, and impulsivity at a young age. Being parent child with real challenge, as parents tend to be more disapproving, critical, provide impulse control directions; such parenting style can have an impact on illn...

BACKGROUND Childhood injury is the second leading cause of death for infants aged 1-5 years in the United Kingdom (UK) and most unintentional injuries occur in the home. We explored mothers' knowledge and awareness of child injury prevention and sought to discover mothers' views about the best method of designing interventions to deliver appropriate child safety messages to prevent injury in th...

Research documents relationships between socio-economic status and child outcomes. It indicates linguistic and academic disadvantages for children from lower socio-economic (LS) backgrounds when compared with MS middle class children. Child performance appears to be modified by mother’s education and environmental factors. This article examines social class differences in the interaction of LS ...

The aim of this study was to examine patterns of emotional availability among 80 young mothers (under 21 years at their child's birth) and their infants, and to identify contextual and individual factors associated with different patterns of emotional availability. To operationalize the dyadic aspect of emotional availability, cluster analysis of the Emotional Availability Scales, third edition...

OBJECTIVE To establish the degree of association between relative deprivation and any variation in condition specific morbidity and in consultations with general practitioners for mothers of young children. STUDY DESIGN Condition specific morbidity and general practitioner consultation (GP) rates were recorded by means of self reports on a postal questionnaire. Subjects were asked to record w...

Examining the ontogeny of conflict-mitigating behaviours in our closest living relatives is an important component of understanding the evolutionary origins of cooperation in our species. In this study, we used 26 years of data to investigate the emergence of third-party affiliation (TPA), defined as affiliative contact given to recipients of aggression by uninvolved bystanders (regardless of i...

The prairie vole has become a flagship species for the biomedical exploration of the neurobiology of social bonding (Carter et al., 1995; Young et al., 2005). It is a species native to the prairies of Midwest North America, and adults show social “ monogamy” – a suite of behaviors including the formation of an emotional pair-bond with an adult partner; shared care of offspring including male ca...

This article argues that the work of Welsh theatre director and playwright Peter Gill occupies a unique place in post-1960s’ British playwriting. It explores Gill’s plays as – using critic Susannah Clapp’s phrase “missing link” between kitchen-sink realism more self-consciously poetic forms text. make an important contribution to history working-class representation UK for three main reasons: f...

Teenage pregnancy is associated with a multitude of medical and social problems. Teenage mothers were approximately twice as likely to be anemic, have a higher risk of instrumental deliveries and mental health difficulties [1]. Teenage mothers also had a higher risk for depression, higher likelihood of living in poverty, and lower likelihood of completing their education relative to peers who d...

STUDY OBJECTIVE The aim was to examine the effect of maternal age, gravidity, marital status, previous perinatal deaths, and parental social class on babies born low birthweight, preterm, and small for gestational age. DESIGN The study used data on discharge summaries from all maternity hospitals in Scotland. SETTING The study was based on all singleton deliveries in Scotland. PARTICIPANT...