AIM This study examined the psychometric properties and the replicability of De Vellis's (1993) Parent Health Locus of Control (PHLOC) scales in an Italian sample. METHOD The Italian version of PHLOC was administered to 470 mothers of birth to 3-year-old children. RESULTS Varimax rotated confirmatory factor analysis identified the six original subscales, namely Child, Divine, Fate, Media, P...

AIM To report a study conducted to explore childrearing concerns through an analysis of online parenting message boards managed by popular parenting magazines. Background.  Increasingly, mothers appear to be turning to the Web for childrearing advice and support. However, no previous studies have examined the childrearing concerns of mothers of infants and toddlers through the analysis of onlin...

In the past two decades there has been a resurgence of interest in the role of the family in the care and education of young children. The current attention on families stems largely from several interrelated global trends. Family structures throughout the world continue to change in response to industrialisation, urbanisation, population growth, increasing longevity, and migration. While these...

In this article I argue that childrearing norms play a key role in discouraging women from having children outside wedlock in contemporary Japan. I first summarize data which suggest that economic and legal discrimination, the two reasons most commonly used to account for the rarity of unwed mothers, although playing an important role, are insufficient to explain the phenomenon. Then I present ...

This paper describes strategies for developing drug abuse prevention programs in rural communities, based on available evidence about factors contributing to drug abuse. Comprehensive interventions to prevent drug abuse and other youth problems are needed because drug abuse is entwined with other problem behaviors and stems from a complex set of social context factors. Community interventions m...

Abstract Understanding the historical policy pathways that have led to constellation of policies both reflect and shape current gender order can reveal reasons for persistence inequality in paid work unpaid family care. Bringing together existing research critique with Carol Bacchi’s framework as ‘gendering practices’, this paper focuses on role a process constructs upholds an unequal order. Th...