introduction nephrotic syndrome is a common glomerular injury that appears in primary shape of children. parents' knowledge quantity is important to prevent complications from the disease, so this study aimed to determination the knowledge quantity of parents about recurrence of disease. materials and methods in this descriptive study based on a designed questionnaire that 66 parents of childre...

OBJECTIVE To determine the impact of a parent education and behavior management intervention (PEBM) on the mental health and adjustment of parents with preschool children with autism. METHOD A randomized, group-comparison design involving a parent education and counseling intervention to control for nonspecific therapist effects and a control sample was used. Two metropolitan and two rural re...

Individuals with a higher education are more likely to migrate, increasing the chance of meeting a spouse with a different ancestral background. In this context, the presence of strong educational assortment can result in greater ancestry differences within more educated spouse pairs, while less educated individuals are more likely to mate with someone with whom they share more ancestry. We exa...

This study investigated the views of teachers, students and their parents on the FATIH (Movement of Enhancing Opportunities and Improving Technology) Project, which was put into service by the Ministry of National Education in cooperation with the Ministry of Transportation in Turkey in November 2010 for the purpose of increasing students’ success and planned to be completed within 5 years. The...

PURPOSE To assess the quality of life (LQ) of parents/caregivers of children and adolescents with Down syndrome (DS), as well as the influence of socio-demographic aspects on the results obtained. METHODS Participants were 31 parents/caregivers of children and adolescents with DS, divided into three groups: G1, caregivers of ten preschoolers (ages between 1 year and 5 years and 11 months); G2...

The out-migration of parents has become a common childhood experience worldwide. It can confer both economic benefits and social costs on children. Despite a growing literature, the circumstances under which children benefit or suffer from parental out-migration are not well understood. The present study examined how the relationship between parental out-migration and children's education varie...

Education data from the Norwegian twin panel reveal no decline in the marital correlation for educational attainment for the past 35 years. Comparable marital correlations are foundfor British and American samples. A higher marital correlation is obtainedfor the parents of the Norwegian twins and the parents of their spouses, but this is an artifact. A twin's recall of his/her parents' educatio...

Economists have been examining parents’ decisions about their offspring’s education in the context of “quantity-quality tradeoff” (e.g., Angrist, Lavy and Schlosser 2010) or “birth order effects” (e.g., Black, Devereux and Salvanes 2007). This paper contributes to both literatures by examining the possibility that a child’s schooling can be increased by having more siblings, instead of being di...

Quantitative studies of occupational attainment and intergenerational social mobility have often devoted little attention to the roles of parental education and educational inheritance. Informed by the ideas of authors who see class reproduction as reflecting more than occupations and economic resources (including Devine, Savage and Crompton), this paper assesses the importance of parents’ educ...