Our founder started this project in 2006 when she was
on maternal leave with her third child and wanted to reach out to other new parents around the globe with help to make the sometimes very tough life with a new baby just a little bit easier.
Not exact matches
On the
left, my
maternal great - great - great - grandfather, Ballard Ezekiel Gibson, an ordained clergyman.
«But if we really want to improve
maternal and child health in this country, let's also focus
on things that can really do that in the long term — like subsidized day care, better maternity -
leave policies and more employment opportunities for low - income mothers that pay a living wage, for example.»
The online, cross-sectional survey, conducted in 2016, queried PMG members about demographic and physical factors, perceived workplace
maternal discrimination based
on pregnancy, maternity
leave, or breastfeeding, and desired workplace changes.
The answer: The relative lack of workplace «packages» of policies such as paid sick time, paid vacation, flexible work hours and paid
maternal or parental
leave, said co-researcher Matthew Andersson, Ph.D., assistant professor of sociology at Baylor University and formerly a researcher at Yale University's Center for Research
on Inequalities and the Life Course.
Evidence from Maternity
Leave Expansions of the Impact of
Maternal Care
on Early Child Development
On the other side of things, we can't just wait until everyone is 16 weeks old to start vaccinating because this would
leave those who's
maternal antibodies wore off early completely unprotected.
If you are
on sabbatical
leave,
maternal or any other and you are still legally employed by your company, list the end date as present under your experience (i.e. 2005 — Present)
Removing records of less than 30 % attendance was viewed as a conservative approach to estimating the impact of
maternal alcohol use diagnosis
on attendance outcomes, and completed with the aim of reducing the impact of children who have
left the Western Australian school system or changed schools but continued to be marked absent.
The results in Tables 2 and 3 also indicate that concurrent risks (most consistently
maternal depression and stressful life events) and
maternal life history risks (most consistently giving birth before age 20 and
leaving home before 18 years of age) exerted a consistent and generalized effect
on children's health outcomes at 2 years of age.
We also know relatively little about how the effects of
maternal employment or parental
leave differ depending
on factors such as the sex of the child, household structure, parental education, and the availability of high - quality child care.
Randomized controlled trials have demonstrated that teaching parents to use graduated extinction (i.e., parent checks
on and comforts their infant at increasing time intervals but
leaves the room before the infant falls asleep) or adult fading (i.e., a parent places a camp bed or chair next to their infant's cot, pats their infant to sleep for the first few nights, then gradually moves their camp bed or chair out of the infant's bedroom over a period of weeks) reduces both infant sleep problems and
maternal depression symptoms.5 In toddlers, provision of a bedtime routine by parents has also been shown to reduce sleep problems.6
These programs have been critical in improving
maternal and child health outcomes in the early years,
leaving long - lasting, positive impacts
on parenting skills; children's cognitive, language, and social - emotional development; and school readiness.
Figure 8.4 Number of childcare providers used by
maternal employment status (excluding mothers still
on maternity
leave)
Figure 8.7 Mix of formal and informal childcare provision by
maternal employment status (excluding mothers still
on maternity
leave)
Figure 8.2 Proportion of families using childcare by
maternal employment status (excluding mothers still
on maternity
leave)
Studies
on parental
leave and children's well - being suggest that early
maternal employment (within the child's first year of life):
Although the literature
on the transition to parenthood has consistently found that this transition has a negative effect
on most couples» relationship satisfaction and functioning (Elek & Hudson, 2003; Lawrence et al., 2007; Lawrence et al., 2008; O'Brien & Peyton, 2002; Schulz et al., 2006; Van Egeren, 2004), we sought to understand how
maternal role expectations, among a population with access to maternity
leave, influenced relationship satisfaction across this import life transition.
To some extent it appears as though the marital satisfaction of new mothers, even those who enjoyed extensive periods of
maternal leave, is dependent
on the participation of their partners.