Based on ethnographic research regarding public policy and grassroots organizing for midwifery in Virginia, this article explores how medical discourses around appropriate health care practices intersect with state discourses about what practices are considered "respectable" versus "pathological" for its citizens. In recent legislative debates about the legalization of direct-entry midwifery, m...

Main results 10.3% of participants were depressed at follow up. Multiple disadvantages in early life were associated with depression (odds ratio [OR] 5.1, 95% CI 2.1 to 12.0). More women than men had depression (OR 2.7, CI 1.1 to 6.3). Types of disadvantages that were associated with depression were social dependence and overcrowding (OR 5.1, CI 2.1 to 12.0), poor physical care and poor motheri...

Here we tested whether there was genetic moderation of effects of early maternal sensitivity on social-emotional and cognitive-linguistic development from early childhood onward and whether any detected Gene × Environment interaction effects proved consistent with differential-susceptibility or diathesis-stress models of Person × Environment interaction (N = 695). Two new approaches for evaluat...

We use data from two waves of the National Survey of Families and Households to investigate changes in mothering behavior associated with union formation among single mothers. We consider three dimensions of mothering: (1) time and supervision; (2) discipline and decisionmaking; and (3) relationship quality. Our major finding is that union formation and/or the disruption of new unions have very...

Objective The aim of the study was to facilitate understanding and interpretation multiple aspects working with mothers by examining Finnish mothers' mothering discourses interplay among these discourses. Background According relational dialectics theory, are systems meaning that coproduced in interaction. Although discursive research on motherhood has identified various discourses, competing i...

Early experiences exert their effects on adult parental behavior in part by altering the development of neurobiological mechanisms that initiate or support the initiation and sustenance of adult parental behavior. The effects of parental behavior on sensory, perceptual and emotional mechanisms in offspring constitute an experientially based mechanism by which neurobiological factors regulating ...