Maternal depression relates to child internalizing outcomes, but one missing aspect of this association is how variation in depressive symptoms, including mild and moderate symptoms, relates to young children's outcomes. The current study examined a moderated mediation model to investigate how maternal behaviors may mediate this association in the context of child temperament and gender. Mother...

This article provides evidence that women's employment, in spite of its other benefits, probably has one crucial adverse consequence: a higher level of child mortality than is found among women who do not work. We examine various intermediate mechanisms for this relationship and conclude that a shortage of time is one of the major reasons for this negative relation between maternal employment ...

Connectedness and autonomy support in the parent-child relationship are constructs that emerge from object relations and attachment theories but that overlap with other commonly studied qualities of parent-child relationships to provide a unifying focus for research in this domain. In this study, these constructs were examined in relation to children's relational competence, including socioemot...

Child- and caregiver-report about parenting behaviors, and caregiver-report of their own symptoms were examined in relation to children's symptomatology following a potentially traumatic event (PTE) among 91 youth. Child-report of hostile and coercive parenting was a salient predictor of child posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), internalizing symptoms, and personal adjustment. Caregivers' own...

relationship between sweetness preference and dental caries in mother child pairs dr. a. pakdel* - eng. n. valaei** - dr. n. mirzabeygi*** *- assistant professor of pedodontics dept. - faculty of dentistry – tehran islamic azad university. **- the member of islamic azad university. ***- dentist. background and aim: considering the existing concern on increasing caries and the importance of swee...

Child nuzitreotment does uot exist in isoIatiorr,fFvm otherfonns offamily violence. Notably research supports rhe connection between wife abuse and child maltreatment, and research on the possible consequences to children exposed to domestic violence has influenced o redefinition of child maltreatmenf legislation and policy. Recently, some states have considered and parsed legislation making wi...

BACKGROUND Road traffic injury is the leading cause of death among Canadian children and youth. Transport Canada recommends four types of child restraint depending on the size of the child, and recent studies have demonstrated the effectiveness of recommended restraint use. OBJECTIVES To determine community paediatricians' knowledge of Transport Canada recommendations for child restraint use ...

OBJECTIVE This research examined whether additional forms of family violence (partner-child aggression, mother-child aggression, and women's intimate partner violence [IPV]) contribute to children's adjustment problems in families characterized by men's severe violence toward women. METHODS Participants were 258 children and their mothers recruited from domestic violence shelters. Mothers and...