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Pedophilia and the gay movement - PubMed
A history of literature and views existing within the COC (Cultural and Recreational Center), the major Dutch organization of homosexual men and women, regarding pedophilia and its relationship to homosexuality are discussed, beginning with definite separation between the pedophile and homosexual id …
Boy-lovers and their influence on boys: distorted research and anecdotal observations - PubMed
A wide experience with boy-lovers has convinced the author that one can often learn more about them from reading some excellent novels than from so-called scientific studies. All too often research is unreliable because (1) it assumes pedosexual activity is a positive indicator of pedophilia; (2) no …
Gay fathers: a review of the literature - PubMed
This article reviews the research literature on gay fathers, and includes brief historical perspectives and statistical data. The major portion of the article compares studies of gay fathers with other groups such as lesbian mothers and nongay fathers. Because the literature is sparse, and the resea …
Does sexual abuse in childhood cause pedophilia: an exploratory study - PubMed
The reliability of the notion that pedophilia is caused by sexual abuse in childhood was explored by examining retrospective self-reports of 344 males. Included in the study were 77 heterosexual pedophiles, 54 homosexual pedophiles, 51 nonpedophilic sex offenders against children, 36 sex offenders a …
Configurations of mother-child and father-child attachment as predictors of internalizing and externalizing behavioral problems: An individual participant data (IPD) meta-analysis - PubMed
An unsettled question in attachment theory and research is the extent to which children's attachment patterns with mothers and fathers jointly predict developmental outcomes. In this study, we used individual participant data (IPD) meta-analysis to assess whether early attachment networks with mothe …
Examining the Relationship between Infant Weight Status and Parent-Infant Interactions within a Food and Nonfood Context - PubMed
Background: Most observational research examining factors in the home environment that contribute to child adiposity has focused on feeding and physical activity, although aspects of one's nonfood home environment such as parent-child interactions can also impact body weight. The main …
Specific parenting behaviors link maternal education to toddlers' language and social competence - PubMed
Maternal sensitive parenting behavior has been shown to account, at least partially, for the relation between family background and children's language and behavioral outcomes. Yet, as previous studies often used a rather global or domain-general measure of maternal sensitivity, it remains an open q …
How does circumcision performed under regional anesthesia affect sleep, feeding, and maternal attachment in babies aged 0-4 months? - PubMed
The circumcision performed under regional anesthesia between 0 and 4 months did not have any negative effect on sleep, feeding, and maternal attachment in babies.
Maternal depressive symptoms, attendance of sessions and reduction of home safety problems in a randomized toddler safety promotion intervention trial: A latent class analysis - PubMed
Maternal depressive symptoms were associated with the reduced probability of maternal attendance at toddler safety promotion sessions; high session attendance was related to greater reduction of toddler home safety problems. Identifying risk factors for maternal low attendance to interventions and d …
Growing Memories: Coaching mothers in elaborative reminiscing with toddlers benefits adolescents' turning-point narratives and wellbeing - PubMed
Maternal elaborative reminiscing in early childhood appears to have long-term benefits for adolescents' causal coherence in turning-point narratives and well-being.
Developmental Cascade Effects of Maternal Depression on Offspring Substance Use Across Adolescence: Pathway Through Mother-Child Relationship Quality and Peer Deviancy - PubMed
There is evidence that maternal depression can disrupt adolescent social development and trigger a risk cascade to adolescent substance use that involves poor quality mother-child relationships (Lovejoy et al., 2000) and affiliation with deviant peers (Visser et al., 2012). However, relatively littl …
Reduced mother-child brain-to-brain synchrony during joint storytelling interaction interrupted by a media usage - PubMed
Parent-child synchrony is related to the quality of parent and child interactions and child development. One very emotionally and cognitively beneficial interaction in early childhood is Dialogic Reading (DR). Screen exposure was previously related to decreased parent-child interaction. Using a hype …
A Letter to My Children, From Their Essential Worker Mother - PubMed
A Letter to My Children, From Their Essential Worker Mother
Multimodal hyperscanning reveals that synchrony of body and mind are distinct in mother-child dyads - PubMed
Hyperscanning studies have begun to unravel the brain mechanisms underlying social interaction, indicating a functional role for interpersonal neural synchronization (INS), yet the mechanisms that drive INS are poorly understood. The current study, thus, addresses whether INS is functionally-distinc …
Evaluation of a Mother-Infant Dyadic Video-Feedback Intervention in a Community Health Center in South Bronx, New York City - PubMed
Cost-effectiveness studies are needed to compare parenting interventions by setting (community health center, home, or mental health facility) for acceptability and effectiveness to determine best practice models for communities challenged by poverty, trauma, and health disparities.
The moderation of maternal parenting on the association of trauma, dissociation, and psychosis in depressive inpatients - PubMed
Healthcare workers should be aware of the risk of developing psychotic symptoms among depressive patients with a history of LBT and maternal maltreatment.
Depressive symptoms as a transdiagnostic mediator of mother-to-infant bonding: Results from a psychiatric mother-baby unit - PubMed
Maternal symptoms of depression can interfere with the establishment of healthy mother-infant-bonding, which negatively affects developmental trajectories of the child and maternal wellbeing. However, current evidence about the effects of treatment in severely affected women is still lacking and the …
Dual Nature of RAGE in Host Reaction and Nurturing the Mother-Infant Bond - PubMed
Non-enzymatic glycation is an unavoidable reaction that occurs across biological taxa. The final products of this irreversible reaction are called advanced glycation end-products (AGEs). The endogenously formed AGEs are known to be bioactive and detrimental to human health. Additionally, exogenous f …
Prenatal and postnatal intimate partner violence, depression, and infant-mother touch - PubMed
Touch is a primary form of communication for mother-infant dyads in the infant's first year of life. Stressors such as intimate partner violence (IPV) and maternal depression experienced during the perinatal period may interfere with mother-infant touch via prenatal programming of the stress respons …
The subject in transmission: the phantomic origins of (dual) unity and the birth of the self - PubMed
Abraham and Torok's clinical concept of the phantom can be rethought in extended terms to account for the challenges inherent in giving birth to oneself. The author re-examines the question of the ghost in terms of the individual's separation from the mother-child unity. This is a traumatic process …
Monochorionic Twins and the Early Mother-Infant Relationship: An Exploratory Observational Study of Mother-Infant Interaction in the Post-Partum Period - PubMed
The extraordinary increase in twin rates and specifically monochorionic twin pregnancies represents a major public health issue due to the associated increased risks for the mother, the child and their relationship. The aim of the present study was to examine the quality of mothers' behaviour during …
Development of mother-infant co-regulation: The role of infant vagal tone and temperament at 6, 9, and 12 months of age - PubMed
Using Porges' (2011) Polyvagal Theory as a backdrop, this study examined whether changes in parasympathetic functioning, as indexed by baseline measures of cardiac vagal tone at 6, 9, and 12 months of age, were linked to changes in infants' (N = 101) dyadic co-regulation over these same time points. …
Computer-based mother-infant interaction analysis and mental functioning in postpartum depression - PubMed
Cognitive and social functioning could be an influencing factor on dysfunctional maternal interaction behavior. Early detection of distortions of mental processing in expectant mothers might help to inhibit the clinical manifestation of dysfunctional mother-infant bonding and negative child outcome …
Maternal nighttime sleep and infant-mother attachment security: The mediating role of maternal parenting quality during bedtime and free play - PubMed
The present study examined mothers' emotional availability (EA) during daytime free play and bedtime as a mediator of linkages between maternal nighttime sleep and infant-mother attachment. Participants included 153 mothers (85% White) with infants (53% female). When infants were 1, 3, 6, 9, and 12 …
Vocal brain development in infants of mothers with serious mental illness (CAPRI-Voc): study protocol - PubMed
It will be made clear that fNIRS is a safe, non-invasive technology widely used in infant clinical and psychological research. We shall reassure mothers that no definitive causal link exists between maternal mental illness and language development in infants, and that individual data will only exist …
Prediction of personal exposure to PM2.5 in mother-child pairs in rural Ghana - PubMed
Our results support the feasibility of predicting usual personal exposure to PM2.5 using short-term measurements in settings where household air pollution is an important source of exposure. Our results also suggest that mother's exposure may not be the best proxy for child's exposure at …
[The Prevailing Emphasis on the Quality of the Parent-Infant Relationship for Early Intervention] - PubMed
Attachment theory is the buzzword in parenting guides and professional publications, and risk to the child's attachment development is widely used as the threshold for early intervention. Given the severe impact of inaccurately diagnosed attachment disturbances on the child's wellbeing (Granqvist et …
Maternal depressive symptoms and children's cognitive school readiness: the role of gene-environment interplay - PubMed
Maternal depressive symptoms are a robust risk factor for poor cognitive outcomes in children, yet the role of gene-environment interplay in this association is not well understood. The objective of this study was to evaluate gene-environment interaction in the association between maternal depressiv …
Cultural Influences on Hispanic Mother-Daughter Communication About Sex - PubMed
The study informs researchers and clinicians how to facilitate parent-child conversations about sex and to equip parents to teach their children how to avoid engaging in sexual risk-taking behaviors.