(PhysOrg.com) -- The role of a mother in African families is even more essential to the well-being of a child than the role played by the breadwinner father, according to a study published in the latest issue of the journal ...
Social Sciences
Mar 15, 2010
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Elvire Vaucher is a professor at the Université de Montréal School of Optometry. Her husband is an artist who works from home. Upon the birth of their second child in 2003, she took only three months maternity ...
Social Sciences
Mar 10, 2009
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If you're a woman in your 20s or 30s, particularly if you're in a long-term relationship, you've probably been asked when you're going to have children. In the UK and many other countries, there is a clear societal expectation ...
Social Sciences
Nov 21, 2023
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Parental leave for fathers can decrease sexist attitudes and gender bias, according to new research from Rice University, Washington University in St. Louis, the University of Oxford and ETH Zurich.
Social Sciences
Apr 26, 2023
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Social service systems struggle to successfully engage with men as parents. A new book co-authored and co-edited by Georgia State University scholar Qiana Cryer-Coupet addresses the biases and assumptions about men and fathers ...
Social Sciences
Apr 12, 2023
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When it comes to video games, boys are the main source of parents' concern, and maybe rightly so.
Social Sciences
Feb 17, 2023
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Victorian courts disproportionally penalized poor families when they heard child neglect cases, a new study suggests.
Social Sciences
Feb 2, 2023
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By distinguishing between the initial paternity leave taken by the majority of fathers, and subsequent solo paternal leave taken by fewer fathers, we have developed competing hypotheses about why low- or high-wage fathers ...
Economics & Business
Jan 24, 2022
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Today's Australian fathers are believed to be more "hands on" and engaged with their children than the stereotypical absent breadwinner of generations past.
Social Sciences
Sep 3, 2021
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The frequency of misattributed paternity, where the assumed father is not the biological father, is low and decreasing in Sweden, according to an analysis of 1.95 million family units with children born mainly between 1950 ...
Social Sciences
Jul 21, 2021
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