• Assumptions about different cultural groups and how they impact breastfeeding support • Shoshone and Arapaho tribal breastfeeding traditions shared through oral folklore • Barriers to decreasing health disparities in infant mortality for African Americans • Effects of inflammation and trauma on health disparities that result in higher rates of infant mortality among minority populations • Barriers to breastfeeding experienced by Black mothers and how lactation consultants can support them more effectively • Social support and breastfeeding self - efficacy
among Black mothers • Decreasing pregnancy, birth, and lactation health disparities in the urban core • Positive changes in breastfeeding rates within the African American community • Grassroots breastfeeding organizations serving African American mothers
Not exact matches
I grew up in Detroit,
among urban, working - class
blacks while my white
mother sent me to a suburban, lily white, private Christian school and a large, white Baptist Church who denied me baptism in 1987 for being «half -
black.»
If god made straight people, he must have made gay people.Or maybe there is no god and gay people are
Mother Nature's way of controlling the population.If you believe in god, then love thy neighbor whether he / she is gay,
black, mexican, muslim, or anything else you might not agree with.There's an awful lot of hatred
among people who preach love and forgiveness.Practice what you preach.
Still, breast - feeding rates remain significantly low
among blacks and Hispanics, and research shows most
mothers abandon the practice after a few months.
Supine sleeping was less common
among blacks and Hispanics and more common
among infants of older
mothers and
mothers with low parity.
Extending Breastfeeding
among Black and Latina
Mothers: Preparing Women for the Postpartum Period
We share results from a randomized trial which tested a behavioral educational intervention with the secondary aim of increasing breastfeeding duration
among self - identified
black and Latina
mothers.
Read more >> Celebrating
Mothers of Memphis during
Black History Month African Americans have the lowest rates of breastfeeding
among all racial / ethnic groups in the United States.
It certainly seems that way, with films released so far, like Fruitvale Station and Lee Daniels» The Butler, and upcoming films like
Mother of George, Baggage Claim, 12 Years a Slave and
Black Nativity,
among others.
Others are involved with parent - based community groups: the Allston Brighton Community Development Corporation (working to create a dialogue
among parents on local education issues, including assignment processes for schools), the
Black Ministerial Alliance (working to improve the quality of Boston public schools), and City Life / Vida Urbana (working with a group of Latina
mothers advocating for their special - needs children).
Among other findings, the report identified a rising proportion of
black children being raised in households headed by unmarried
mothers.
Myers does an outstanding job of re-creating the theater of war — from the tedium that breeds violence and vicious words
among American comrades (
black against white,
black against
black, white against white, and man against man), to the sudden shock, the pain, the confusion, and the stark terror that brings soliders face - to - face with their ideals, their religious beliefs, and their morality — in a world where a
mother turns her child into a human bomb, an officer sends men into combat only to reap honors for himself.
She vividly describes the isolation of Eva's rebellious and lonely English
mother; the desperation of her Afrikaner father as drought destroys his farm; the conflicts
among the
black farm - workers as the younger generation questions the loyalty and subservience of their elders; and the dangerous silence of a young girl who witnesses too much.
Among the cast of characters in the movie is Sarah Jane, a light - skinned
black girl who rejects her
mother and passes as white to escape the fate of American second - class citizenship.
Among African - Americans aged 25 - 54, there are only 83 free men for every 100 women, which is one reason why so many
black mothers raise children alone.
Some research suggests that the academic deficits associated with living with a single
mother are less pronounced for
black than for white children.37 One study found that growing up in a single - parent family predicted lower socioeconomic attainment
among white women, white men, and
black women, but not
among black men.38 McLanahan and Sandefur found that white offspring from single - parent families were more likely to drop out of high school than were African American offspring from single - parent families.39 African American children may thus adjust better than white children to life in single - parent families, although the explanation for this difference is not clear.
Circumstances and outcomes
among Black immigrant
mothers and their young children: Evidence from Palm Beach County, FL..
This investigation evaluated the efficacy of an intervention to delay the early introduction of complementary feeding
among first - time,
black, adolescent
mothers living in multigenerational households.
This is the case for nearly half of all
black children, and more than one - quarter of all Hispanic children;
among white and Asian children, smaller proportions (about one in seven, and one in ten, respectively) live with their
mothers only.
(Appendix 1)
Among single
mothers, whites are the most likely to drink at least moderately (15 percent), followed by
blacks (11 percent), and Hispanics (5 percent).
This study examined maternal parenting trajectories and economic, social and health resources associated with these trajectories
among low - income predominantly
Black and Hispanic
mothers over time using three waves of data from the Welfare, Children, and Families: A Three - City Study (N = 1140).