scholarly journals Adventures in Child-Rearing: The Sexual Life of a Child Growing Up With Down Syndrome

2002 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Fitzmaurice
Keyword(s):  
Down Syndrome ◽  
Child Rearing ◽  
Sexual Life ◽  
Growing Up

The Handicapped Child

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1951 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 158-158
Keyword(s):  
Child Care ◽  
Medical Profession ◽  
Handicapped Child ◽  
Child Rearing ◽  
Growing Up

Despite the best efforts of the medical profession, there continue to be parents whose children are handicapped either in their senses or in their limbs. For these parents, devoid as they often are of the joy of seeing their child growing up normally, and plagued as they are by both fears and guilt, Mrs. Stern and Miss Castendyck have written this book. As they themselves point out, it is neither a general manual on child care nor encyclopedic in terms of illnesses, but it stresses "the fact that good principles of child rearing apply equally to the normal and the handicapped."

Child Rearing, Prosocial Moral Reasoning, and Prosocial Behaviour

1997 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 509-527 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan M.A.M. Janssens ◽  
Maja Deković
Keyword(s):  
Moral Reasoning ◽  
Child Rearing ◽  
Prosocial Behaviour ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Moral Issues ◽  
Restrictive Environment ◽  
At Home

This study examined the relations between child rearing, prosocial moral reasoning, and prosocial behaviour. The sample consisted of 125 children (6-11 years of age) and both their parents. Child-rearing behaviour was assessed by both observations at home and interviews with the parents; prosocial moral reasoning by interviews with the children, and prosocial behaviour by questionnaires filled in by their teachers and classmates. Positive relations were found between prosocial moral reasoning and prosocial behaviour, but only for the youngest children. Children growing up in a supportive, authoritative, and less restrictive environment behaved more prosocially and reasoned at a higher level about prosocial moral issues.

scholarly journals ‘Tear down your institutions’. Empirical and evolutionary perspectives on institutional care in SOS Children’s Villages

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marinus H. van IJzendoorn ◽  
Marian Bakermans-Kranenburg
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Child Development ◽  
Small Group ◽  
Scientific Evidence ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Institutional Care ◽  
Family Care ◽  
Physical Growth ◽  
Child Rearing ◽  
Growing Up

Typical large-group institutions for abandoned children or orphans are bad for the development of children. From an evolutionary perspective 24/7 institutional care by professional caregivers is outside any ‘Environment of Evolutionary Adaptedness’. Hamilton’s rule makes clear why nevertheless institutional care emerged. A central question is whether small-group care in institutional settings is the exception and provides good-enough care? SOS Children’s Villages use small group housing and try to mimic a family-like child-rearing environment to promote child development. In a narrative and quantitative synthesis, the scientific evidence on the associations between growing up in SOS villages and child development in various domains is reviewed. Searches in Web of Sciences, PubMed and Google Scholar yielded 8 eligible empirical studies on N = 1,567 children (including 914 SOS children). Random effects meta-analyses were conducted on physical growth and mental health comparing SOS children with children growing up in typical institutions and in families. Results showed developmental delays of SOS children compared with their peers in families. Compared to children in typical institutions SOS children do better on mental health but worse on physical growth. The preliminary evidence suggests that SOS Children’s Villages should move away from institutional arrangements to family care.

scholarly journals Aby bolo menej sirôt žijúcich otcov

2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 251-267
Author(s):  
Ladislav Csontos
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Single Mothers ◽  
Sexual Life ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Number Of Children ◽  
Functional Families ◽  
Alternative Type ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Challenging Situation

Orphans of Living Fathers Summary In the course of the last decades, the phenomenon of orphans with living fathers has occured in the Euro-American civilisation as we are witnessing a rising number of children growing up without the presence of the father. In some cases it is the result of mother’s deliberate choice (single mothers), in other cases no direct intention is involved as with the divorced mothers, The above situation occurs also in the seemingly functional families, where fathers only have a small share in the upbringing of the children. It seems that the problem begins with the birth of the child who consumes 80% of the mother’s emotional resources. As a result, the woman is not able to give her partner as much affection as she used to, which makes him feel pushed away. In many cases this challenging situation makes the man start perceiving and living the sex life in a sort of materialistic way, which is followed by the wife’s natural reaction i.e. sexual life becomes a burden to her. Fortunately, this is not an unavoidable scenario as there exists an alternative – the possibility to keep developing the tenderness within the marital relationship. On the man’s side this alternative type of tenderness takes on the form of empathy, a concrete attention and care for his wife and child. In order to develop in a healthy way, every child needs to experience the motherly and fatherly love in equal measure and the mutual love between the parents that guarantees a stable and secure home for them. If parents start to perceive God as a loving Father who shows them His tenderness and love, it is the response to His generous offer and the invitation to personal conversion at the same time. God’s tenderness is clearly attested in both Old and New Testament. It is evident from His actions through which He proves to be a caring and tender Father who shows gratuitous love to His children. In the image of such God the humans have been created as male and female. Biblical texts provide numerous examples of these divine traits that can be transformed in everyday life behaviour and attitudes by the spouses in the same way as Jewish families have linked these two realms during the Passover meal and in their everyday life. To sum up, tenderness is a chance to ensure the stability of Catholic families and save their children from becoming the orphans of living fathers.

scholarly journals Unharmonious early bilingualism in inter-ethnic Lithuanian emigrant familie

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Inga Hilbig
Keyword(s):  
Minority Language ◽  
Child Rearing ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Negative Attitudes ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Comprehension Skills ◽  
Language Classes ◽  
The Face ◽  
Discourse Strategies

The article seeks to investigate the main reasons that cause inharmonious early bilingualism in inter-ethnic Lithuanian emigrant families. The data consist of extracts from 25 semi-structured interviews with Lithuanian women and Facebook comments of such emigrant mothers. Firstly, the study identifies the reasons why some informants themselves do not speak Lithuanian in their families, which leads to their children not even being able to understand it. These reasons can be lack of knowledge about the nature of early simultaneous bilingualism with a minority language, weak or negative attitudes towards Lithuanian and / or Lithuania, urgent need to fully integrate, influence of non-Lithuanian speaking partners, dominance of the majority language over bilingual mothers, and children’s passive bilingualism or insufficient comprehension skills. On their part, children can be growing up passively bilingual because of the minority language input shortage, not enough possibilities and real need to practice it in their daily lives, and because mothers tolerate bilingual conversations with certain discourse strategies. Finally, this paper examines the factors determining underdeveloped or attriting competences in the minority language. Children might be able to participate in very simple colloquial conversations in Lithuanian but cannot express themselves more freely in it or on different topics. They lack higher quality and more various input, e.g. through books or films in the Lithuanian language. They protest against minority language classes, where they could have a chance to learn to read and write in the minority language and further develop their skills. The analysis has revealed a variety of different reasons and their complex combinations that contribute to inharmonious bilingualism with Lithuanian as a minority language. They are objective and subjective, primary and secondary, sociolinguistic, psychological, pedagogical, and maybe some other reasons. A crucial role is played by mothers’ negative emotions in the face of struggles and children’s resistance, which also negatively affects success in bilingual child-rearing.

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