Helle et al. (1) showed that producing and raising sons reduced the longevity of preindustrial Sami women, whereas daughters tended to have the opposite effect. They suggested that the life-shortening effect of sons could be attributed to higher endocrinological or physiological costs of producing sons compared with those of producing daughters, and that the life-elongating effect of raising da...

The Trivers-Willard hypothesis predicts the unequal parental investment between daughters and sons, depending on maternal condition and offspring reproductive potential. Specifically, in polygynous populations where males have higher reproductive variance than females, it predicts that mothers in good condition will invest more in sons, whereas mothers in poor condition will invest more in daug...

National and regional bull evaluations were compared for ability to predict standardized milk yield of future daughters. Correlations between evaluations and first-, second-, and third-parity yields of future daughters were calculated within herd-year-month group. Mean correlations with predicted yield of future daughters across the United States were higher for national (0.109, 0.111, and 0.08...

In this paper, we investigate how the intergenerational transmission of entrepreneurship varies between sons and daughters whether such a process depends on living in country characterized by high gender gap. Using Survey Health, Ageing, Retirement Europe data set, find that effect daughters' entrepreneurial choices having an entrepreneur as father is lower than one only countries with Moreover...

Abstract Although the literature on informal care-giving for older parents shows that daughters have a higher tendency to provide care compared with sons, only few studies focused gender composition of all children or parents’ entire range options. Our study examines effect children's and formal types, as well network. Using data from 2015 Survey Health, Ageing Retirement in Europe (N = 40,312)...

The yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae typically divides asymmetrically to give a large mother cell and a smaller daughter cell. As mother cells become old, they enlarge and produce daughter cells that are larger than daughters derived from young mother cells. We found that occasional daughter cells were indistinguishable in size from their mothers, giving rise to a symmetric division. The frequenc...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To examine the experiences of being parented when mothers are diagnosed and treated for breast cancer from the perspectives of adolescent daughters. RESEARCH APPROACH Empirical phenomenologic. SETTING Participants were recruited from sites in Indiana and Arizona. PARTICIPANTS Eight adolescent daughters whose mothers had been diagnosed with and treated for breast cancer....

PURPOSE OF THE STUDY Japan introduced a nationwide long-term care insurance (LTCI) system in 2000, making long-term care (LTC) a right for older adults regardless of income and family availability. To shed light on its implications for family caregiving, we investigated perceived filial obligation norms among coresident primary family caregivers before and after the policy change. DESIGN AND ...

Objective: To establish whether a mother’s intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy (ICP) has connections to her daughter’s health. Design: A retrospective study of daughters to ICP mothers. Setting: The region of Tampere University Hospital in Finland. Subjects: The study population comprised 575 women diagnosed with ICP during at least one pregnancy in the obstetric department of Tampere Univers...

BACKGROUND Children of depressed mothers are themselves at elevated risk for developing a depressive disorder. We have little understanding, however, of the specific factors that contribute to this increased risk. This study investigated whether never-disordered daughters whose mothers have experienced recurrent episodes of depression during their daughters' lifetime differ from never-disordere...