All propagation - of - the - species imperatives aside, research suggests that
women with children demonstrate higher productivity over the course of their careers than their childless peers.
Not exact matches
Although some IUD - happy mothers aren't officially finished
with having
children, their initiative to control their fertility
demonstrates that for a younger sect of
women — around 30 and under — unplanned babies just aren't on the agenda.
Recent research
demonstrates that lactating
women have an earlier return to prepregnant weight, 41 delayed resumption of ovulation
with increased
child spacing,42 - 44 improved bone remineralization postpartum45
with reduction in hip fractures in the postmenopausal period, 46 and reduced risk of ovarian cancer47 and premenopausal breast cancer.48
For the first time, it could be
demonstrated with smoking pregnant
women and their
children, how exposure to tobacco smoke affects the development of human immune system on molecular level.
The Nicaraguan study is the first to
demonstrate that educating
women has a direct effect on their
children's health and that this has nothing to do
with these other factors.
Specifically to: 1) collaborate
with Crittenton
Women's Union (CWU) to create video resources that
demonstrate its family skill - building model as a means of building adult capabilities to improve
child outcomes; 2) create an initial set of materials for practitioners and leaders of family service - provision systems to be used
with caregivers to improve serve - and - return interaction as well as self - regulation and executive function skills; and 3) test these materials as part of a qualitative needs assessment of practitioners who wish to build the capabilities of adults who care for
children birth - to - five,
with an emphasis on birth - to - three.
While Rosa did not talk specifically in the Save the
Children video about postpartum depression, research shows that stressful life events, including premature birth, are risk factors for maternal depression.24 Evaluation studies confirm that
women who participated in home visiting programs were less likely to
demonstrate symptoms of depression and reported improved mental outlook when compared
with control groups of
women who did not participate in home visiting.25 For example, parents participating in the
Child First model — one of the 20 evidence - based models eligible to receive funds from the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting program — experienced lower levels of stress and depression at the end of the program compared
with parents who did not participate.26
The widespread absence of attention to the mother -
child relationship in the treatment of depression in
women with young
children is another striking example of the gap between science and practice that could be reduced by targeted pediatric advocacy.97 Extensive research has
demonstrated the extent to which maternal depression compromises the contingent reciprocity between a mother and her young
child that is essential for healthy cognitive, linguistic, social, and emotional development.98 Despite that well - documented observation, the treatment of depression in
women with young
children is typically viewed as an adult mental health service and rarely includes an explicit focus on the mother -
child relationship.
Yet evidence from the Fragile Families survey of 5,000 low - income couples who have just given birth to a
child and ethnographic interviews conducted
with low - income
women in Philadelphia by Kathy Edin of Northwestern University provide convincing evidence that low - income people share the same normative commitment to marriage that middle - class families
demonstrate.