scholarly journals Biological and Foster Mothers in Kamba Ramayanam

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-47
Author(s):  
Kavitha N.M
Keyword(s):  
Foster Mother ◽  
Biological Mother ◽  
Foster Mothers ◽  
The People

Rama, the hero of Ramayana is worshipped by the people. Biological and foster mothers of Rama, the great are really fortunate. The hero of Kamba Ramyanam was manifested more with his foster mother rather than his biological mother. Thus he had two mothers. Kosalai, Rama’s biological mother was stable in all the situations and showed maturity in her behaviour. Bharathan, who was fostered by Kosalai was also an esteemed gentle person. Kaikeyi, the foster mother of Rama was affectionate to Rama than Bharathan, her own son. But her infidelity towards Rama by becoming a prey to the conspiracy of kūni Mautharai shown her inner love towards her son Bharathan. Kosalai stood in esteemed status as a biological as well as a foster mother.

scholarly journals KONSEP BHAKTI AJARAN KAPILADEVA DALAM ŚRĪMAD BHĀGAVATAM (Kajian Filsafat Ketuhanan)

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 479
Author(s):  
Gusti Ayu Kade Dewi Kartika Sari
Keyword(s):  
Role Model ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Ethical Values ◽  
Older Person ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Biological Mother ◽  
The People ◽  
Huge Impact ◽  
Children Education

<p><em>The advancement of science and technology has had a huge impact on people's lives. Along with the moral decline and depletion of ethical values in society, it takes a spiritual approach that can instill moral and ethical values derived from Vedic teachings. One of the stories that tells of a child who gives the divine teachings that are full of moral and noble character to his biological mother. Kapiladeva teaches about the nature and position of living beings, the concept of the sādhu sanga, the importance of the pronunciation of the sacred name and of how one attains liberation through the yogic bhakti.</em></p><p><em>The teachings of Kapiladeva in Śrīmad Bhāgavatam illustrate to the people that God can be attained by laypeople but if one has faith and heart to seek God then he must follow the advice of a spiritual teacher, by practicing the yoga bhakti. The problems discussed in this study are 1). What is the concept of Kapiladeva ?, 2). How does the contribution of Kapiladeva teach in contemporary society? And what are the implications of Kapiladeva's teaching on society ?. The theory used in this research to analyze the problem is Hermeneutics Theory and Structuralism Theory. This research uses qualitative approach. Based on the problems mentioned above then used the method of documentation, and literature study.</em></p><p><em>The results obtained in this study are the teachings of the bhakti-yoga taught by Kapiladeva to his mother Devahūti gives a role model to the community that one does not have to study to an older person, but the adult needs to listen to something beneficial from the younger, the teachings conveyed by Kapiladeva can lead mankind to reach God. Kapiladeva's teachings can make a very important contribution at this time, where in studying spirituality, one should be able to improve sradha, patience, sincerity, hermitage, humility and willingness to learn under the guidance of the spiritual teacher. In addition to the philosophical teachings of philosophy, the teachings of Kapiladeva also teach children education in raising piety, faith, and noble character.</em></p>

scholarly journals Identical Strangers: A Memoir of Twins Separated and ReunitedElyse Schein and Paula Bernstein (2007). New York: Random House, 288 pp., $US25.95. ISBN 978 1 4000 6496 0

2008 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 478-478
Author(s):  
Dorret I. Boomsma
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Identical Twins ◽  
Foster Mother ◽  
Biological Mother ◽  
Adoption Agency

AbstractPaula Bernstein and Elyse Schein are identical twins who were separated at 6 months of age. After spending the first few months of their lives together with a foster mother they were adopted by different families and finally reunited in 2004, when they were 35 years old. The book, Identical Strangers, written by both twins in alternating paragraphs, describes how they found each other after Elyse contacted their adoption agency with a request about information about her biological mother.

The Ecology of Friendship: Early Tamil Landscapes of Irony and Voice

2017 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-35
Author(s):  
Martha Ann Selby
Keyword(s):  
Romantic Relationship ◽  
South India ◽  
Third Century ◽  
Foster Mother ◽  
Love Poetry ◽  
Female Friendship ◽  
The Third ◽  
Male Characters ◽  
Biological Mother ◽  
Modern Britain

This article is a brief study of four female characters—a pair of daughters and a pair of mothers—who give voice to the majority of the poems in the Aiṅkuṟunūṟu, an Old Tamil anthology of love poetry from the early decades of the third century CE. Taking cues from recent ethnographies on friendship in South Asia and from Alan Bray’s compelling study of friendship in modern Britain, I will examine the ways in which bonds between female friends are expressed in the dense natural imagery so characteristic of Old Tamil convention, most often found within the poems in double entendre and in brief, almost allegorical statements. I focus primarily on the figure of the tōḻi, the ‘girlfriend’, who speaks with greatest frequency in these poems as she acts as the mediator between the talaivi (the ‘heroine’) and the talaivaṉ (the ‘hero’) through every stage of their romantic relationship, and also between the talaivi and her mothers—the cevili-t-ta −y or ‘foster mother’ and the naṟṟa −y, the ‘biological mother’ of the talaivi. In passing, I will briefly contrast this quartet with the voices of their corresponding male characters, which we hear especially within the context of the pa −caṟai, the ‘war camp’. I will analyze how the voices of the characters change—both in content and in register—according to shifts in poetic settings, and will discuss what these shifts can tell us about aesthetic representations of female friendship in early South India. Through a study of the conversational settings among these characters, I will illustrate how friendship, intimacy and love are conveyed in language and rhetorical gesture.

Motivating Factors to Breastfeed an Adopted Child in a Muslim Community in Malaysia

2015 ◽  
Vol 74 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zilal Saari ◽  
Farahwahida Mohd Yusof
Keyword(s):  
Breast Milk ◽  
Foster Mother ◽  
Motivating Factors ◽  
Foster Child ◽  
Muslim Community ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Biological Mothers ◽  
Foster Mothers ◽  
Maternal Instinct ◽  
Motivating Factor

Breast milk is the best milk for babies. Breastfeeding is not exclusive to biological mothers only, it is relevant to adoptive mothers too. Women who have never given birth are also able to produce breast milk by following induced lactation method. According to Islamic fiqh law (jurisprudence), woman who breastfeed a child who is not her biological child will be mahram to her nurse child. Therefore the aim of this study is to examine the motivating factors to breastfeeding a foster child in a Muslim community in Malaysia. This is a qualitative study using case studies and grounded theory. A total of 12 foster-mothers whom have successfully breastfed their foster children by induced lactation method were involved in this study. The method of collecting data is semi-structured interviews. Qualitative data were analyzed using QSR NVivo Version 10 software using the techniques of content analysis, word based analysis and code based analysis. This study found, the main motivating factor for a foster-mothers to breastfeed her foster child is to build a mahram relationship with her foster child, followed by the maternal instinct, psychology, nutrition, technology, offspring and obligations. Breastfeeding a foster child in the context of a Muslim community in Malaysia aims to achieve two objectives: Islamic tenet (syariat) and goals of humanity. Both of these goals are linked by science i.e. induced lactation technology. This study proves that a Muslim foster-mother can apply induced lactation as a way to build a fosterage (milk kinship) relationship with her foster child which ultimately facilitate in their family life.

The Effects of a Systematic Skills Training Program on the Communicational and Parenting Skills of Foster Mothers

1981 ◽  
Vol 163 (3) ◽  
pp. 262-274 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald F. Levant ◽  
Paul E. Slobodian
Keyword(s):  
Training Program ◽  
Personal Development ◽  
Rating Scales ◽  
Minority Group ◽  
Training Group ◽  
Skills Training ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Foster Mother ◽  
Parenting Skills ◽  
Foster Mothers

This article reports the results of an evaluation of the effects of a systematic skills training program on the communicational and parenting skills of inner city, lower socioeconomic minority group foster mothers. A training group was compared with a no-contact control group before and after ten weeks of an eclectic skills training program which emphasized personal development as a prerequisite for skill development. The groups were compared with respect to attending, empathic understanding, facilitative genuineness, respect, acceptance, structuring, use of rules, limit-setting, and conflict-resolution. Dependent measures included rating scales applied to a videotaped interaction between foster mother and foster child, and questionnaires. No significant differences were found on any of the dependent measures. These results are discussed in terms of the need for extended training programs for this population.

scholarly journals A note on precise tracking of suckling position by piglets

2014 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janko Skok ◽  
Dejan Škorjanc
Keyword(s):  
Litter Size ◽  
Spatial Configuration ◽  
Spatial Position ◽  
Standard Practice ◽  
Biological Mother ◽  
Foster Mothers ◽  
Present Case Study ◽  
Cross Fostering ◽  
Anterior Posterior

Abstract. Piglets establish a relatively stable teat order after the first week of lactation, when each piglet chooses a preferred teat or teat pair where they tend to suckle permanently. The mechanism underlying the choice that leads each piglet to the same suckling position is still not clarified. In the present case study, piglets with different preferred suckling positions (anterior, posterior) were transferred to a foster sow after completion of the regular 4 weeks of lactation by their biological mother. For both sows, which were identical based on parity, litter size and farrowing date, we examined the suckling positions of the experimental piglets. Piglets occupied exactly the same suckling positions on both sows. Thus, piglets precisely track positions on the mammary complex of a sows udder even when previously learned discriminable stimuli have been changed, such as odours, tastes, morphologies (of sows udder or the sow itself), vocalizations, and neighbouring littermates. Our observation indicates that the spatial configuration of the mammary complex, which is determined by two parallel rows of teats arranged in pairs, can hypothetically be proposed as an important cue for piglet suckling orientation. Therefore, additional attention should be given to the exact spatial position of piglets (and vacant positions) on the mammary complex of biological and foster mothers in order to reduce stress from cross-fostering, which is standard practice in contemporary piglet production.

Observations on the attatchment of marsupial pouch young to the teats and on the rearing of pouch young by foster-mothers of the same or different species

1966 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 593 ◽  
Author(s):  
JC Merchant ◽  
GB Sharman
Keyword(s):  
Hard Palate ◽  
Foster Parents ◽  
Buccal Cavity ◽  
Foster Mother ◽  
Red Kangaroo ◽  
Foster Mothers ◽  
Grey Kangaroo ◽  
Accelerated Growth ◽  
Reproductive Cycles ◽  
Swamp Wallaby

The buccal cavity is modified in young red kangaroos by hemispherical indentations into hard palate and tongue which receive the bulbous swelling at the end of the teat. Attachment to the teat is aided by the formation of ridges on the hard palate and the lateral fusing of the lips of the young. The epiglottis of the young red kangaroo is intra-nasopharyngeal rather than intra-narial as is stated to be the case in other marsupials. Red kangaroos less than 1 day old were removed from the teat to which they had attached and replaced on another teat in the same pouch. A grey kangaroo young aged 13 days was replaced on the teat after removal and was removed and replaced at 7-day intervals thereafter. No difficulty was experienced in replacing 15 young aged between 41 and 100 days on the teats from which they were removed. The following transfers of young less than 1 day old were made: two red kangaroos to foster-mothers of the same species, one red kangaroo to a grey kangaroo, two grey kangaroos to foster-mothers of the same species, one tammar to a red kangaroo, and two swamp wallabies to red kangaroos. All the transfers were initially successful; however, one red kangaroo and one grey kangaroo were lost soon after the transfer, apparently because the foster-parents were at the incorrect stage of their reproductive cycles. The followmg transfers of young 2-25 days old were made to foster-mothers suckling young 2-20 days old: two swamp wallabies to red kangaroos, one red kangaroo to a swamp wallaby, one red kangaroo to a red-necked wallaby, one grey kangaroo to a red kangaroo, one tammar to a red kangaroo, and one red-necked wallaby to a red kangaroo. All the transfers were initially successful except a 13-day-old tammar which failed to attach to the teat of its foster-mother. A swamp wallaby young transferred at the age of 25 days to a red kangaroo showed accelerated growth and early sexual maturity compared to control swamp wallabies raised by their own mothers. A total of 12 inter-species and intra-species transfers of young aged 41-255 days old were made. A 53-day-old young of the yellow-footed rock wallaby failed to attach to the teat of a red kangaroo but all other transfers were initially successful and, in most cases, growth of the foster-young was normal and they were reared to at least the latter stages of pouch life. Young placed in the pouches of foster-mothers were readily accepted and there were indications that the behaviour patterns of the foster-mother were altered so that they responded to calls made by the foster-young. Foster-young of species which have a longer pouch life than the red kangaroo remained in the pouches of red kangaroo foster-mothers for the time usual in their own species. Foster-young transferred to the pouches of other species were usually reared to the end of pouch life if adult sizes of transferred young and foster-mother were nearly equal. Young of small species transferred to the pouches of larger species were often lost before the end of pouch life.

scholarly journals Invariant and Variant Sociopsychological Characteristics of Successful Foster Mothers

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (6) ◽  
pp. 149-163
Author(s):  
V.N. Oslon ◽  
M.A. Odintsova ◽  
G.V. Semya ◽  
E.A. Zinchenko
Keyword(s):  
Foster Children ◽  
Foster Parents ◽  
Professional Community ◽  
Diagnostic Techniques ◽  
Foster Mother ◽  
Parental Competence ◽  
Foster Parenting ◽  
Foster Families ◽  
Long Period ◽  
Foster Mothers

As part of the development of tools for sociopsychological assessment of prospective foster parents, we conducted a factorization of the array of data obtained with a set of diagnostic techniques and identified the contribution of each component to the success of foster care. Invariant and variant characteristics of successful foster mothers are highlighted (N=128).Foster mothers were selected based on the expert opinion of the professional community and trained as coaches of foster families. It is shown that successful foster mothers have a number of characteristics that allow them to raise foster children over a long period of time. These characteristics should be considered as criteria for selecting potential reliable guardians. Among the invariant characteristics are: the viability of family, the dominance of motivation of altruism and self-realization in children, high levels of emotion management, extroversion, consciousness, emotional stability, parental competence. The variant characteristics are as follows: the experience of foster parenting, the intensity of motivation aimed at resolving family and personal crises, ‘replacing’ a child, solving demographic problems, filling an empty nest, as well as the level of emotional intelligence and its components (except emotion managment); personality traits (level of compliance, openness to experience); altruistic investment. The invariant-variant approach enables us to address the sociopsychological portrait of the foster mother in its integrity.

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