In 1991 the Latin American Council of Bishops (CELAM), the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), and the Consultative Group on Early Childhood Care and Development began a collaboration on a project whose overarching purpose was to improve programs of attention to young children living in conditions that put them at risk of delayed or debilitated physical, mental, social and/or emotional dev...

The purpose of this investigation was to assess the odd-even item reliability of the Child Rearing Attitude Scale (CRAS) for neuropsychiatric (NP) patients. Unlike prior reliability studies, the present study controlled for a large number of demographic and personality variables which correlate significantly with the tendency to endorse items suggestive of deviance in childrearing practices. De...

Family has a crucial role in maintaining the physical, social and mental health of the children. Most of the mental and anxiety problems of children reflect the complex interpersonal situations among family members, especially parents. In other words, anxiety problems of the children are correlated with deficit relationships of family members and improper childrearing styles. The parental child...