In a randomised controlled trial a lactation nurse assisted mothers during the early weeks after parturition both in hospital and at home. All mothers who started breast feeding were entered into the trial. The lactation nurse significantly extended duration in the study group compared with controls, particularly during the first four weeks and among women of lower social class.

The TAT was administered to 20 mothers of schizophrenic and 20 mothers of normal children. Children were matched on the basis of sex, age, level of education, number of siblings, and the child's position among his siblings. Mothers were matched on the basis of age, level of education, and social class. Each story was judged pathogenic, benign, or unscorable by 2 clinicians. A pathogenic score w...

K E Y WORDS: Adolescent Mothers; Biological Fathers; Family Life. Adolescent birth rates have increased every year since 1987, after remaining rather stable or falling throughout the earlier decades. A recent report cites that there were 62 births to every 1000 women aged 15-19; one-fourth of African-American women had their first birth before they reached age 19 (Child Trends, 1994). High teen...

Objective: According to the significant role of mothers’ personality traits and their training styles on the genesis of children’s initial personality and destructive manners, present research compares early maladaptive schemas of mothers of children with Attention-deficit/ hyperactivity disorder, mothers of children with Oppositional defiant disorder, and mothers of normal children. Methods...

Children (N = 18) between 11h and 3 years were videotaped in dyadic interaction with their 4or 5-year-old older siblings, their 7or 8-year-old older siblings, and their mothers. The child-directed speech of the three groups of older speakers was analyzed for characteristics generally thought to be supportive of young children's language development and in terms of its relation to the age of the...

PURPOSE Treatment for a bone tumour can compromise quality of life (QOL), especially for young patients. We used qualitative methods to assess mothers' views of patients' experiences and their coping strategies at approximately 6 months after diagnosis (T1: n=12) and 12-18 months later (T2: n=11). SUBJECTS Mothers of young people (aged 6-22 years) who were undergoing treatment for either oste...

Using data from 8,951 first-time mothers in the National Survey of Family Growth, the authors analyzed trends in union contexts during the transition to motherhood by social class (proxied by maternal education). Conventional classifications of union contexts as married or cohabiting were extended by classifying births relative to union status at conception. The most conventional married birth ...

Young mothers face various obstacles in the labour market due to lack of skills job search techniques, unpaid domestic responsibilities and, developing countries, social isolation and restrictions. Business training programs targeting young must be demand-driven linked with private sector demands. In addition, life aiming at work balance combined provision childcare, are measures that if taken,...