3. Mother’s Day | ScienceGate

A national day of prayer has been recognized as a part of our country's heritage since it was declared by the Continental Congress in 1775.... Officially it is the first Thursday of every May; this year it falls on May 5. We could trust the spirit of President Abraham Lincoln who, in despair, said, "I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go." This is the anxiety felt by 13-million American children who are "Poorest in a Land of Plenty," title given a film produced by the National Council of Churces, to be introduced on Mother's Day, May 14 (NBC, 1 pm). The NCC's statistics show that "One out of every five children in America is poor; among 20 industrialized nations the USA has the third highest infant mortality rate; among industrialized nations only the USA and South Africa fail to provide comprehensive health care for children and pregnant women.

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Changing family model, social capital and caring: how to reconcile? the case of Lithuania

SOCIOLOGIA E POLITICHE SOCIALI ◽

10.3280/sp2012-su3005 ◽

2013 ◽

pp. 75-105

Author(s):

Vida Cesnuityte

Keyword(s):

Social Capital ◽

Social Networks ◽

Nuclear Family ◽

Extended Family ◽

Research Question ◽

Main Research ◽

Family Practices ◽

Mother’S Day ◽

To Receive ◽

Family Models

The aim of the research presented in the paper is to explore the inter-relations between care processes and personal social networks as social capital in the light of the changing family models. Research of interdependence of care, social capital and family models is based on the idea of family practices suggested by Morgan. The main research question is what family practices of various family models create such social capital that ensure caring for its' members? The research hypothesis is that participation in various activities together with family members and persons beyond nuclear and extended family create dense social networks of caregivers. The analysis is based on data of representative quantitative survey carried out in Lithuania between 2011 November-2012 May within the ESF supported research project "Trajectories of family models and social networks: intergenerational perspective". Research results only partly support this hypothesis: particular family practices create networks of caregivers, but in order to involve particular persons into network of caregivers, different family practices in various family models are needed. Usually, inhabitants of Lithuania primarily expect to receive care from persons who depend to nuclear family created through marriage and extended family arisen from this relation. But persons from whom it is expected to receive care and care received differ in Lithuania. In reality, caregivers usually are children in families with children and parents in families without children. Family practices that create social networks of caregivers, and are common for all family models include annual feasts like Christmas Eve, Christmas, Easter, All Soul's Day, New Year party, Mother's Day. Various family practices differently impacting creation social networks of caregivers for different family models but usually its include joint dinner daily, Sunday lunch together, vacations with family, communication face-toface, by the telephone or Internet, consultations on important decision-making, All Soul's Day feast, Christmas celebration, Mother's Day, Gatherings of relatives, Birthday, Name-day feast, visiting cultural event together.

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Flattening the curve and the effect of atypical events on mitigation measures in Mexico: a modeling perspective

10.1101/2020.05.21.20109678 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Mario Santana-Cibrian ◽

Manuel Adrian Acuna-Zegarra ◽

Jorge X. Velasco-Hernandez

Keyword(s):

Mitigation Measures ◽

Case Scenario ◽

Worst Case ◽

Social Distancing ◽

Epidemic Curve ◽

Effective Contact ◽

High Incidence ◽

The Government ◽

Mother’S Day ◽

Short Time

On 23 and 30 March 2020 the Mexican Federal government implemented social distancing measures to mitigate the COVID-19 epidemic. We use a mathematical model to explore atypical transmission events within the confinement period, triggered by the timing and strength of short time perturbations of social distancing. We show that social distancing measures were successful in achieving a significant reduction of the effective contact rate in the early weeks of the intervention. However, "flattening the curve" had an undesirable effect, since the epidemic peak was delayed too far, almost to the government preset day for lifting restrictions (01 June 2020). If the peak indeed occurs in late May or early June, then the events of children's day and mother's day may either generate a later peak (worst case scenario), a long plateau with relatively constant but high incidence (middle case scenario) or the same peak date as in the original baseline epidemic curve, but with a post-peak interval of slower decay.

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