News tagged with parenting practices


Mothers, but not fathers, follow their own moms' parenting practices

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Aug 09, 2009 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

When it comes to how they raise their children, mothers today tend to follow the same practices their own mothers did, according to a new study that looked at parenting practices across two generations.


Biological fathers not necessarily the best, social dads parent well too

Other Sciences / Other

created Jul 31, 2008 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

A large number of U.S. children live or will live with a "social father," a man who is married to or cohabiting with the child's mother, but is not the biological father. A new study in the Journal of Marriage and Family examin ...





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Facebook, Wikipedia execs brief Vatican on Web

Technology / Internet

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(AP) -- Executives from Facebook, Wikipedia and Google are attending a Vatican meeting to brief officials and Catholic bishops about the Internet and digital youth culture.


Alberta's hidden valleys offer both resources and danger

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created 10 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Alberta is crisscrossed with hidden glacial valleys that hold both resource treasures and potential danger. University of Alberta researcher Doug Schmitt discovered a 300 metre deep, valley hidden beneath the surface of the ...


Teens less likely to wash hands when cooking, more likely to cross-contaminate raw food than adults

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A Kansas State University study has shown that when preparing frozen foods, adolescents are less likely than adults to wash their hands and are more susceptible to cross-contaminating raw foods while cooking.


Men leave: Separation and divorce far more common when the wife is the patient

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A woman is six times more likely to be separated or divorced soon after a diagnosis of cancer or multiple sclerosis than if a man in the relationship is the patient, according to a study that examined the role gender played ...


Experts offer strategies for working with immigrant victims of violence

Experts offer strategies for working with immigrant victims of violence (w/ Video)

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Last year, the United States provided asylum and resettlement assistance for nearly 80,700 people from other countries, an increase from 71,300 individuals in 2007, according to the U.S. Committee for Refugees ...


Excavation unravels mysteries of men's gymnasium's demise during 1906 earthquake

Excavation unravels mysteries of men's gymnasium's demise during 1906 earthquake

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

More than a year into an excavation project of the men's gymnasium that was destroyed by the 1906 earthquake, Stanford university archaeologist Laura Jones' team has unearthed evidence suggesting why the newly ...


Switching Gears to Greener Transportation

Switching Gears to Greener Transportation

Technology / Energy

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 2

Automakers around the world continue to slowly infuse their cars and trucks with greener, more efficient technology, but researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute contend that technology alone will not ...


National anti-gun violence program largely successful, study finds

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 3

Project Safe Neighborhoods - a community-based policing effort launched in 2001 - has been largely successful in its goal of reducing violent crime, according to an analysis by Michigan State University, the national research ...


Scientists seek safe carbon dioxide storage for 'greener' power generation (w/ Video)

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced plans to fund research at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) School of Engineering on technologies that would help reduce greenhouse gas emissions through the capture ...


Improving university-community research partnerships

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers from Tufts University and their community-based colleagues have identified several strategies to improve community-based participatory research (CBPR) partnerships. A study published in a supplement to the November ...



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