OBJECTIVE To evaluate parental recall of surgical risks and benefits in pediatric otolaryngology and to assess for factors that may influence recall. STUDY DESIGN Prospective cohort study. SETTING Academic pediatric otolaryngology clinic. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Eighty-four parents of children <6 years of age who underwent consultation for adeno/tonsillectomy and/or tympanostomy tube inserti...

The parental investment conflict considers the question of how much each sex should invest in each brood, thereby characterizing different animal species. Each species usually adopts a certain parental care pattern: female-care only, male-care only, biparental care, or even no parental care at all. The differences in care patterns are usually explained by the different costs and benefits arisin...

The aim of this article is to investigate the workings of parental authority in Slovenian families: how is parental authority asserted and how do adolescents react to parental authority? Based on a qualitative exploration, the study shows that parental authority is accommodated in ways that comply with the general culture of intergenerational negotiations; it is co-constituted as a joint produc...

Usefulness of multibreed composites depends on: 1) adaptation of the average breed effects combined, 2) amount of initial heterosis retained, and 3) the rate of further improvement from selection. Potential improvement could be increased, relative to parental stocks, by retained heterosis in reproductive rate and by any increase in additive genetic variation in the composite. A single-locus, tw...

In a social atmosphere of expecting mothers to sacrifice their own wellbeing for the sake children's wellbeing, pregnant women are compelled find stance in relation these sets expectations. The current study aimed at exploring relationship between Israeli women's tendency meet expectations, that is, defensiveness end pregnancy and parental self-efficacy five months postnatal, examining role anx...

Because we have only considered situations in which the main care received by a child, other than parental care, is provided by grandparents (a scenario which ignores other situations where grandparents may act as an essential background support), the results suggest that grandparental care does indeed play an important role in determining the probability of women working in our chosen set of c...