The Initiative Facts For Life: A Vital Source for Safe Motherhood
According to global statistics, approximately 9 million children die each year before their fifth birthday from completely preventable causes. Those statistics include the three million babies that are stillborn, the one million that die from injuries, and the one and a half million that die from dehydration. The death of …
How the Chemnistry of Smell and Touch Develops Human’s Capacity for Harmony
“The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother’s side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.” –Erich Fromm Most parents are aware of the importance of successful bonding …
Crushing Illusion of Truth: On Fictional Experts and Imagined Baby Care Guides
“Every group thinks that its way of caring for infants is the obvious, correct, natural way – a simple matter of common sense. However, as the anthropologist Clifford Geertz has pointed out, what we easily call “common sense” is anything but common. Indeed what people accept as common sense in …
The Initiative Facts For Life: A Vital Source for Safe Motherhood
According to global statistics, approximately 9 million children die each year before their fifth birthday from completely preventable causes. Those statistics include the three million babies that are stillborn, the one million that die from injuries, and the one and a half million that die from dehydration. The death of …
How the Chemnistry of Smell and Touch Develops Human’s Capacity for Harmony
“The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother’s side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.” –Erich Fromm Most parents are aware of the importance of successful bonding …
Crushing Illusion of Truth: On Fictional Experts and Imagined Baby Care Guides
“Every group thinks that its way of caring for infants is the obvious, correct, natural way – a simple matter of common sense. However, as the anthropologist Clifford Geertz has pointed out, what we easily call “common sense” is anything but common. Indeed what people accept as common sense in …
On Nostalgia, Myth and The Way We Never Were
“The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.” –L.P. Hartley The Changing Face of Family Life Values Older people can often be heard lamenting the demise of “the good old days” when children respected their elders, adults behaved civilly towards one another, and good manners were a …Editorial Selection
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Female Deities, Mother Figures and Motherhood Symbolism
The Initiative Facts For Life: A Vital Source for Safe Motherhood
The Developmental Psychologist: How They Help Us Grow Into And Inhabit Our Identity
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Matrilineal Baboons: Maternal Lessons from Distant Cousins
“He who understands baboon would do more towards metaphysics than Locke.” —Charles Darwin, 1838 Scientists have long recognized the value of studying some our closest genetic cousins, the baboon animal mother, in gaining information to better understand human behavior. However, few have valued it highly enough to live among them, …
Back to the Future: What Primates Can Teach Us about Parenting
“I’m certainly not advocating that we should behave like monkeys and apes. I’m saying that understanding the basic primate way will help us make more informed choices about the kinds of parents we want to be.” –Harriet J. Smith A practicing clinical psychologist and former fellow at the National Institute …
The Developmental Psychologist: How They Help Us Grow Into And Inhabit Our Identity
The History of the Developmental Child Psychologist Developmental child psychology has been defined as a field of study that examines and attempt to explain how humans change over time. Those changes occur in a number of different areas, each of which include several aspects of the human experience. Physical change …
The Dangers of Parenting as a Competitive Sport
“Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment, and especially on their children, than the unlived lives of the parents. “ –Carl Jung Competitive Moms Parental Styles Kyoiku mama is a Japanese term used to describe the maternal parenting styles of mothers who drive their children to succeed academically, …Support
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Struggling Integrity: Media and Middle-class Moms
The Influence of Mass Media on Parenting Style Media and Middle Class Moms: Images and Realities of Work and Family by Lara J. Descartes and Conrad Kottak raises questions about the extent to which parents, as well as their parenting style, are affected by the media. Peer pressure is often …
Motherhood as a Status Characteristic and the Maternal Economic Penalty
The motherhood penalty is a phrase coined by sociologists to describe the economic costs for women who become mothers. Research shows that the economic maternal penalty amounts to a 5% decrease in wages per child. Professional women who are mothers make an average of $11,000 per year less than women …
Family Values and the Value of Families in the Mescalero Tribe
“I was no chief and never had been, but because I had been more deeply wronged than others, this honor was conferred upon me, and I resolved to prove worthy of the trust.“ –Geronimo Family Life in the Mescalero Tribe The Mescaleros are one of several indigenous American peoples who …
Hommage to the Equality Principles of the Iroquois Nation
Family Life With Iroquois Nation It’s quite possible that family life in the Iroquois Nation may have had a lasting influence on the quality of women’s lives all over the world. Iroquois society reflected the basic tenet that life has no real quality without equality. In their society, women enjoyed …Video
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The Developmental Psychologist: How They Help Us Grow Into And Inhabit Our Identity
The History of the Developmental Child Psychologist Developmental child psychology has been defined as a field of study that examines and attempt to explain how humans change over time. Those changes occur in a number of different areas, each of which include several aspects of the human experience. Physical change …The Dangers of Parenting as a Competitive Sport
“Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment, and especially on their children, than the unlived lives of the parents. “ –Carl Jung Competitive Moms Parental Styles Kyoiku mama is a Japanese term used to describe the maternal parenting styles of mothers who drive their children to succeed academically, …
The Evolution of Motherhood: The Next Generation
Has Technology Created Positive Social Change for Mothers ? Motherhood as we know it began two million years ago with the emergence of homo erectus. Anthropologist Sarah Hrdy believes that one of the distinguishing features of human mothers in comparison to other primates was that of allowing others to care …
