Growing numbers of children across the world start non-maternal care in the first year of life. However, few studies have described how different infant care experiences may relate to later child cognitive, language and ...

The study is about the quality of mother-child interactions in Chilean, single-mother, low-income families, considering the children's attendance to day nurseries and their starting age before and after they are 6 months ...

We observed that family configurations have been changing over time, the number of couples and women without children has been increasing, and the aging of the population is growing dizzily in our country. These ...

In mammals, newborns need parental care, mostly maternal care, to succeed in development. Mother emotionality may affect development at initial stages or even emotionality of the offspring in adulthood. In the present study ...

OBJECTIVE: To describe the dietary errors occurring when supplementary feeding is introduced and non-maternal milk is offered to children attending public daycare centers in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. METHODS: ...

Esta investigación de carácter exploratoria a nivel local busca acercarse a las razones por las cuales un grupo de mujeres de las denominadas nuevas clases medias que residen en Trujillo ha decidido no tener hijos/as. Para ...

Nowadays many mothers all over the world work outside home. As a result, day- care centers were provided. Many investigations on the effects of day-care centers on the development of children have been done. The available ...