Former studies have shown that children and adolescents of divorced parents have significantly poorer educational attainment than their peers from continuously married parents. Educational ambition is important because it has relationship with educational attainment. Our aim was to investigate the associations between parental divorce and educational ambitions among adolescents in the Scandinav...

This study focuses on the relationships between post-divorce parental conflict, economic hardship and adolescents’ academic achievement among 800 adolescents (424 girls and 376 boys) aged 15 to 18 years from divorced families. The instruments used for data collection were the Post-divorce Parental Conflict and Economic Hardship scales. In conclusion, the results obtained from the current study ...

This study examined the possible relationship between perceptions of parental conflict and intimacy in same-sex friendships within a sample of college students (n = 85) at a small liberal arts college. The role of parental marital status in affecting intimacy was also investigated with the prediction that this variable would not have a significant influence upon intimacy. The potential effects ...

A good quality and quantity of night sleep is a substantial factor in allowing the adequate daytime functioning of human beings. Life styles of industrialized countries have been changed from last decades, and sleep-wake patterns have been adapted to new needs and society demands. Sleep duration has decreased, daytime sleepiness has increased and complaints about the poor quality of sleep are f...

Although parental leave has long formed part of traditional labor relations, it was not until the nineteen seventies that it began to be regarded in some Scandinavian countries as a way ofi balancing work and family life as well as of enhancing gender equality (Duvander, Lappegard, and Andersson 2010; Escobedo, Flaquer, and Navarro, 2012; Lappegard, 2008), That egalitarian aspiration was consol...

Parental scaffolding is an important mechanism utilized by infants during their development. Infants, for example, pay stronger attention to the features of objects highlighted by parents and learn the way of manipulating an object while being supported by parents. Parents are known to make modifications in infant-directed actions, i.e. use “motionese”. Motionese is characterized by higher rang...

This study investigates gender differences in adolescent drug use in terms of parental monitoring and peer deviance. Females are found to be more highly monitored than males, whereas males are more exposed to deviant peers than are females. There is a significant interaction between parental monitoring and peer deviance for the sample as a whole. The effect of this interaction is greater among ...

introduction:   sometimes physicians need to assess some markers on selected children's cerebrospinal fluid specimen according to lumbar puncture (lp). although immediate diagnosis and treatment especially for meningitis is necessary, but just at this moment, due to some incorrect believe in society, some parents may not allow physician to do lp. the reality is that most of these people, i...