2017-02-17 10:03
The Struggle for Power Throughout Nurturing History
Everyone agrees that war has a negative effect on children. That has also held true regarding the battle of the sexes. Although the term w… Read More
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2017-02-10 09:59
Ancient Female Contributions to the Nurturing History of Science and Math
According to Hindu scriptures, the Goddess Samjna, invented all the symbols that convey the meaning of what it is to… Read More
2017-02-03 09:57
Female Nurturing History of the Ancient World
In the animal world, females are the center of family life, with males often playing a lesser supporting role in nurturing history, and often, n… Read More
2017-01-27 09:51
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 babi… Read More
2017-01-20 09:53
“Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human faculty which must embrace the whole of the wor… Read More
2017-01-13 09:53
“I think the driving force for cultural evolution is this desire for groups to be splitting off and separating and forming subgroups insofar as the environment will allow it. We see gr… Read More
2017-01-06 09:44
Ethology is the study of non-human animal behavior under natural conditions with the goal of learning about more about how species develop adaptive traits in response to changing social and… Read More
2016-12-30 09:35
“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 fr… Read More
2016-12-30 09:32
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. Thos… Read More
2016-12-23 09:34
“Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment, and especially on their children, than the unlived lives of the parents. “
–Carl Jung
Competitive Mo… Read More
2016-12-23 09:30
A new parenting movement has sprung up in response to the increasingly fast pace of life created by technology. Many believe that modern culture leaves no room for childhood. Instead, childh… Read More
2016-12-16 09:33
“When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.”
–Sophia Loren
The Senses… Read More
2016-12-09 09:28
“As a woman leader, I thought I brought a different kind of leadership. I was interested in women’s issues, in bringing down the population growth rate… as a woman, I ent… Read More
2016-12-02 09:54
The Role of Maternal Genes in Embryonic Development
The link between genes and human behavior has been a subject of scientific research since before the discovery of DNA in 1953. There is st… Read More
2016-11-25 09:03
“I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No wonder that by age five I was a raging feminist – although the term h… Read More
2016-11-18 09:00
“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… Read More
2016-11-11 09:05
One article on 19th and 20th century baby care history presents much of the conflicting advice from child care experts over the last 100 years. According to the article, such advice is a con… Read More
2016-11-04 09:58
“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 demis… Read More
2016-10-28 20:01
Importance Of Mother And Child Portraits
Author and historian Juliet Heslewood studied the history of art at London University and earned an MA in English Literature at Toulouse. She led stu… Read More
2016-10-21 09:10
The Multiple Meanings of Family Life
Parenting styles and meaning associated with having children are as diverse as parents themselves. Often, there are multiple and complex meanings associa… Read More
2016-10-14 09:56
“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.”
Geron… Read More
2016-10-07 09:07
“The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if… Read More
2016-09-30 09:52
With every new form of genetic testing comes a new controversy. One of the most recent controversies concerned the 23andMe saliva DNA test. The test was designed to give individual consumers… Read More
2016-09-23 09:08
“In the nineteenth century, the central moral challenge was slavery. In the twentieth century, it was the battle against totalitarianism. We believe that in this century the paramount… Read More
2016-09-16 09:50
“Human well-being is not a random phenomenon. It depends on many factors – ranging from genetics and neurobiology to sociology and economics. But, clearly, there are scientific t… Read More
2016-09-09 09:22
Parental Investment Theory
Parental investment is defined by evolutionary biologists as a form of sexual selection in which parents expend resources such as time and energy in their offsprin… Read More
2016-09-02 09:24
Tests To Measure Maternal Sensitivity
Maternal sensitivity is defined as a mother’s ability to perceive, successfully translate, and appropriately respond to her infant’s behavio… Read More
2016-08-26 09:44
Beyond Maternal Deprivation Towards Parental Attachment
Maternal deprivation is a term used to describe a situation in which a child does not receive an adequate amount of consistent care as… Read More
2016-08-19 09:18
“When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and follo… Read More
2016-08-12 09:16
The History of Baby Care in the U.S.
In the U.S. the history of baby care is largely a history of the economically disadvantaged. By the end of the 19th century, the child care system was la… Read More
2016-08-05 09:11
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 abou… Read More
2016-07-29 09:58
“There is ample empirical evidence that a lack of love can harm a child’s psychological, cognitive, social, and physical development. Given this, parents are obligated to seek to… Read More
2016-07-22 09:09
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% decre… Read More
2016-07-15 09:07
“That’s what falling in love really amounted to, your brain on drugs. Adrenaline and dopamine, oxytocin and serotonin. Chemical insanity, celebrated by poets.”
Tess Gerrits… Read More
2016-07-08 09:07
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… Read More
2016-06-29 09:05
“You can be a businesswoman, a mother, an artist, and a feminist — whatever you want to be — and still be a sexual being. It’s not mutually exclusive.”
–B… Read More
2016-06-27 09:04
“The Vatican is against surrogate mothers. Good thing they didn’t have that rule when Jesus was born.”
–Elayne Boosler
Forms of Surrogacy
Couples who are unable to ha… Read More
2016-06-22 09:59
People have attempted to control their parental choices throughout history. Information about birth control was once considered “obscene” material that would erode public morals… Read More
2016-06-20 09:14
Special Day Honoring Fatherhood
Father’s Day celebrated its 100th Anniversary in the U.S. in 2010. In 1909, Sonora Smart-Dodd of Spokane, Washington, being one of six children being ra… Read More
2016-06-15 09:56
“Obviously, you would give your life for your children, or give them the last biscuit on the plate. But to me, the trick in life is to take that sense of generosity between kin, make i… Read More
2016-06-13 09:45
“Surely all women must have a maternal instinct or the human race would die out.”
–Gillian Rossdale
Modern Motherhood & Maternal Myth
Elisabeth Badinter‘s 1982 bo… Read More
2016-06-08 09:52
“There’s a definition of narcissism that when a parent is narcissistic, instead of the child seeing himself reflected in the mother’s face and the mother’s joy, the… Read More
2016-06-06 09:50
“Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children; life’s the other way around.”
–David Lodge
Prior to the 21st Century, literature was domin… Read More
2016-06-01 09:48
“More than this, I believe that the only lastingly important form of writing is writing for children. It is writing that is carried in the reader’s heart for a lifetime; it is wr… Read More
2016-05-30 09:46
“What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.”
–Pericles
Historic Parenting Styles of Ancient Cultures
Man… Read More
2016-05-25 09:43
“We need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or the media, because war in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents… Read More
2016-05-23 09:41
“Equality between the sexes is probably greater among gatherers and hunters, including the !Kung, than in most other societies around the world.”
–Marjorie Shostak
Origina… Read More
2016-05-18 09:37
“I do think that women could make politics irrelevant; by a kind of spontaneous cooperative action the like of which we have never seen; which is so far from people’s ideas of st… Read More
2016-05-16 09:34
“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 gene… Read More
2016-05-11 09:22
“If we are going to be kind, let it be out of simple generosity, not because we fear guilt or retribution.”
― J.M. Coetzee
A History of Generosity
Generosity is so importa… Read More
2016-05-09 09:13
The Origins of Mother’s Day
In the U.S., Mother’s Day, is celebrated on the second Sunday in May. According to an article about the origins of Mother’s Day in the U.S., Jul… Read More
2016-05-04 09:27
According to data gathered by the World Health Organization, approximately 830 women die each and every day due to completely preventable causes surrounding pregnancy and childbirth. Those d… Read More
2016-05-02 09:05
The Potential Positive Power of Gatekeeping in Parenting
Gatekeeping can be defined as a power dynamic in which a parent assumes and exercises the power to decide how much and what type of c… Read More
2016-04-27 09:57
“Alloparental care and provisioning set the stage for children to grow up slowly and remain dependent on others for many years, paving the way for the evolution of anatomically modern… Read More
2016-04-25 09:24
“Successful creative adults seem to combine the wide-ranging exploration and openness we see in children with the focus and discipline we see in adults.”
–Alison Gopnik
Ali… Read More
2016-04-20 09:13
In Vitro Fertilization—The Process
In vitro fertilization is a process by which a woman’s egg is fertilized in a laboratory rather than inside her body. The fertilized egg is cul… Read More
2016-04-18 09:26
“My goal is to offer a correction to the ethnocentric lens that sees children only as precious, innocent and preternaturally cute cherubs. I hope to uncover something close to the norm… Read More
2016-04-13 09:42
“The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.”
–Thomas Paine
Interfaith Marriages and Religious Conflict in Family Life
Despite the seeming hopelessness of ever… Read More
2016-04-11 09:53
The Changing Social Value of Women
“Women’s maternal role has a profound effect on women’s lives, on ideology about women, on reproduction of masculinity and sexual inequa… Read More
2016-04-06 09:01
The Maternal Ideals of the Motherhood Constellation
Daniel N. Stern’s 1998 book The Motherhood Constellation has continued to exert a lasting influence on the field of child developme… Read More
2016-04-04 07:37
Family Life After a Diagnosis of Breast Cancer
A diagnosis of cancer can affect both the patient and other members of the family in many different ways. Telling the family is often one of t… Read More
2016-03-30 08:01
“Women’s status in society has become the standard by which humanity’s progress toward civility and peace can be measured”.
–Mahnaz Afkhami
Positive Social Cha… Read More
2016-03-28 10:06
”These small moments, rather than the traumatic or dramatic moments of a baby’s life, make up the bulk of the expectations that adults bring to their relationships.”
&ndas&hell…Read More
2016-03-23 09:35
Abortion and Social Change Around the World
Abortion has always been a controversial subject as well as practice. Historically, whether abortion was legal or not, women who were unprepared t… Read More
2016-03-21 09:47
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 o… Read More
2016-03-16 08:19
Child Labor in Modern Society
In 1999, the International Labor Organization, which created ILO Convention 182, which defined the worst forms of child labor. The convention was ratified by 18… Read More
2016-03-14 09:39
“We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own home… Read More
2016-03-09 09:34
“The beautiful life-giving placenta is given back to the earth to continue is life-giving journey. Family and friends can be invited and a libation can be given to the ancestors. Thank… Read More
2016-03-07 09:19
“Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.”
-Helen Keller
Family Life and Prison: An Increasingly Common Phenomenon
Virtually every count… Read More
2016-03-02 09:46
Statistics Reflect Social Change for Same Sex Parents
The latest statistics from the Pew Research Center show that of the 15 countries worldwide to permit gay men and lesbians to marry, eig… Read More
2016-02-29 09:52
“There is no time, to wait for Darwinian evolution, to make us more intelligent, and better natured. But we are now entering a new phase, of what might be called, self-designed evolut… Read More
2016-02-24 10:05
“I think some things have fallen off our radar like the idea that it’s okay to have children feel interdependent with you. Like you are there for them but they are also there for… Read More
2016-02-22 09:14
“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 abou… Read More
2016-02-17 10:46
“Schooling operates out of an assumption that ordinary people are biologically or psychologically or politically inferior; education assumes that individuals are sovereign spirits. &ld&hell…Read More
2016-02-15 16:53
The History of the Modern Baby Shower
Historically, all cultures have developed and maintained rituals surrounding childbirth. Many of those rituals incorporated elements of the culture&rsq&helli…Read More
2016-02-10 09:28
Expert child psychologist Dr. Dorothy Einon’s books have proved to be a favorite with many parents. A lecturer in psychology at University College, London, she has a background… Read More
2016-02-08 09:09
“In taking our marital arguments upstairs to avoid exposing the children to strife, we accidentally deprived them of chances to witness how two people who care about each other can wo… Read More
2016-02-03 09:59
“Our distorted perception of young people creates a self-fulfilling prophecy: why bother to try when you are told that you are a failure? Why bother to strive when your existence is s… Read More
2016-02-01 09:37
“Over and over again, cross-cultural research on infancy teaches the exact same lesson: infants can tolerate—and thrive under—care that most any Western parent would assume… Read More
2016-01-27 09:23
“When we trust the makers of baby formula more than we do our own ability to nourish our babies, we lose a chance to claim an aspect of our power as women. Thinking that baby formula i… Read More
2016-01-25 10:00
According to the most recent statistics, one in 33 children in the U.S. is born with a birth defect. The March of Dimes global report estimates that 8 million children–6 percent of tot… Read More
2016-01-20 07:01
The Creation of Family
For many single women and couples alike, artificial insemination has become an option for a variety of reasons. Single women who want to experience the joys of mother… Read More
2016-01-18 10:48
“Nature is only another chimera.”
― Julien Torma
Chimerism and the Cells of Mother and Child
Genetic chimerism is a phenomenon that illustrates the extent to which we are… Read More
2016-01-13 09:00
“Your role is not to make your child happy every moment of the day regardless of the personal cost, but to raise her to be a thoughtful, kind, productive citizen of the world. Some pe… Read More
2016-01-11 09:50
“The rearing of the child must become a process of liberation by methods which shall not impose ready-made ideas, but which should aid the child’s natural self-unfoldment. The p… Read More
2016-01-06 05:27
“Believing there was a unique boyish essence that must be catered to, educators offered same-sex practical education with male role models. They did little to address the issues of po… Read More
2016-01-04 09:40
“The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.”
&ndas&helli…Read More
2015-12-30 09:33
“When two people are in love or when a mother is bonding with her baby, all of the elements of mother-infant bond are mediated through biology: “the smell, the skin-to-skin cont… Read More
2015-12-28 09:13
“We now know that the way to help a child develop optimally is to help create connections in her brain—her whole brain—that develop skills that lead to better relationship… Read More
2015-12-23 21:02
“Kids are economically useless, but emotionally priceless”.
–Viviana Zelizer
Author, economic sociologist, and professor of sociology at Princeton University, Viviana A. Z… Read More
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