Although higher pitch has been described as a universal feature of babytalk (BT) registers worldwide, analysis of a sample of three Quiche Mayan-speaking mothers addressing their infant children indicated that their BT register does not utilize this feature. Quiche mothers either make no pitch distinction in speech to young children, or actually lower pitch slightly in comparison with their Adu...

The findings are reported of a small survey of the attitudes of mothers using local authority infant and child health and welfare services in three widely contrasted areas of England and Wales. The results are compared and contrasted with those of the National Child Health Survey and the Newcastle-on-Tyne 1,000 Family Study. Special reference is made to the fact that over 60% consultations are ...

Results from a longitudinal study of 2402 low-income families during the recent unprecedented era of welfare reform suggest that mothers' transitions off welfare and into employment are not associated with negative outcomes for preschoolers (ages 2 to 4 years) or young adolescents (ages 10 to 14 years). Indeed, no significant associations with mothers' welfare and employment transitions were fo...

We describe mothers' perception about signs and symptoms, causes of the illness, and healthcare seeking behaviors related to pneumonia and express the major modifiable barriers to seeking timely treatment when their under-5 children had pneumonia in rural Bangladesh. Using focus group discussion, we understood mothers' perception and healthcare seeking behavior of childhood pneumonia. Although ...

Among the impoverished population of coastal Kenya, there is a rapidly growing group of young single mothers who suffer from adverse health outcomes, incomplete schooling, social ostracism by their communities, and economic hardship. To address this problem, in 2008 the Single Mothers Program (SMP) selected a group of vulnerable single mothers, provided them with basic relief and education, equ...

CONTEXT The extent to which young women's risk of adolescent pregnancy is associated with having a mother who was a teenage parent, a sister who was a teenage parent or both is not known. METHODS A sample of 127 Latina and black adolescent females completed in-depth surveys at three time points between 1994 and 2000. Logistic regression analyses were used to examine whether socioeconomic fact...

Many governments are considering expanding childcare subsidies to increase the labour force participation of parents (especially mothers) with young children. In this paper, we study potential impact such a policy by comparing effects offering free part-time and offer whole school day in context England. We use two different strategies exploiting eligibility rules based on date birth. Both sugg...

AIM To determine sociodemographic features that describe mothers who are likely to wean their babies earlier then is recommended and whether the rates of breast-fed children in Croatia had improved since 1996. METHODS A sample of 500 mothers was selected from the population of women who had delivered 2 to 12 months before the interview. The sample was stratified according to the region, urban...

Children of teen mothers have worse academic, labor market, and behavioral outcomes in the United States, but it is not clear whether these poor are caused by having a young mother or driven selection into motherhood. Understanding reasoning behind child important for designing effective policies to improve trajectories. Simple correlations using data from National Longitudinal Survey Youth 197...

We estimate the relationship between maternal age and child outcomes, using indices aimed at measuring overall outcomes, learning outcomes, and social outcomes. In all cases, we find evidence that children of older mothers have higher outcomes. Not only do children born to mothers in their twenties do better than children born to teen mothers, but children born to mothers in their thirties do b...