Parenting

Parental Beliefs and Decision Making About Child and Adolescent Immunization: From Polio to Sexually Transmitted Infections

This article presents a review of research on the role of United States parental attitudes and beliefs in decision making about child and adolescent immunisation. It describes the historical context of vaccine-related decision making research. The potential influences on vaccine decision making studied are social-environmental and parent-specific personal factors...

Evaluation Report of the Better Parenting Project: National Multi-Sectoral Collaboration on Behalf of Young Children [2000]

A 2-week evaluation of the Better Parenting Project was conducted with multisectoral, government/NGO collaboration. The evaluation reported project success in addressing child-rearing practices related to the physical, social and emotional development of children in relationships with family members...

Violence Against Children

The Place Where We Live Is Called the Red Light Area

To bring the stories of children of women in prostitution to the fore, and to understand the feelings and thoughts of these children on topics such as violence, abuse, prostitution, stigma, trafficking, and HIV/AIDS, Apne Aap Women Worldwide, an initiative to end sex-trafficking, has published this book. It is the outcome of an advocacy project started by the organisation in the "red light" areas of Sonagachhi and Kalighat, India...

Violence Against Young Children: A Painful Issue

This volume of Early Childhood Matters focuses on violence against young children as an issue regarding the development of young children. Topics include: corporal punishment, supporting non-violent discipline in schools, several programmes protecting children from violence and sexual abuse, advocacy programmes in Kenya, El Salvador, Colombia, Israel, and Bulgaria, and treatment and prevention for child victims of domestic violence, among others...