In Latin America, informal support from adult children to their older parents (“upward support”) is crucial with an aging population and insufficient coverage of social protection systems. This article examines variables ...

Parental competencies are the set of capacities that allow fathers and mothers to face in a flexible and adaptive way the fulfillment of their role, in accordance with the needs of their children and the standards considered ...

Individual and age-related differences in the patterning of adolescents' beliefs about the legitimacy of parental authority were examined in a sample of 3425 Chilean adolescents (M age = 15.0). During early, middle, and ...

This thesis arises from the research project "Acceptance and parental rejection perceived by children attending schools in the city of Cuenca”, with the purpose of analyzing the behavior of acceptance-rejection and control ...

Hypertension in adolescence may be a predictor of cardiovascular problems in adulthood. Therefore, verification of the factors associated with this condition in adolescence is important. The aim of this study was to analyze ...

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This study was based on the attendance, by this reasearcher as a judiciary analist, in four adoptions cases of children between four and ten years old, prosecuted at the Recife s Secound Childhood and Adolescece Court, ...