Maternal deprivation

and poverty struggles, the efforts made greatly improved women’s access to healthcare. Maternal and infant death rates began to improve along with doctors’ attitudes towards their female patients. During a time period plagued with an environment of extreme racial discrimination, African American women had to overcome many obstacles to gain access to quality health care. From 1900 to 1935, “infant and maternal mortality rates were higher among blacks than whites in the United States.”…

An Amorous Intrusion The fear of people and ideals foreign to what we know often results in a detrimental division. “The Smallest Woman in the World”, a short story written by Clarice Lispector, follows a European explorer on an expedition through the Congo. He comes across the smallest woman in the world, who he names Little Flower. A striking image of Little Flower soon spreads across the globe. Through Lispector’s omniscient narrator, the audience experiences the innermost thoughts of people…

Maternal Mortality has been on a steady decline in developed countries such as the United States. However, in the under-developed areas maternal mortality rates have remained unusually high. The alarming issue is not a new and emerging topic, however with over half a million women dying each year due to pregnancy complications the issue has become one of great prominence (Hunt & Bueno de Mesquita, 2014). In order to improve the issues changes must be made at the economical, social, political,…

Social interactions are essential in everyday situations such as wooing a mate, the reproduction of offspring, and forming interpersonal relationships. ‘Prosociality’, which is an umbrella term, involves maternal and paternal care, social recognition, adult affiliation such as pair bonding and social bonding, and empathy and trust between people. Various literature has examined the roles of oxytocin and vasopressin in supporting prosocial behaviours. Oxytocin (OT), a nonapeptide hormone…

1.) Atherton, Olivia E., Thomas J. Schofield, Angela Sitka, Rand D. Conger, and Richard W. Robins. 2016. “Unsupervised Self-Care Predicts Conduct Problems: The Moderating Roles of Hostile Aggression and Gender.” Journal of Adolescence 48:1–10. The article, Unsupervised Self-Care Predicts Conduct Problems: The Moderating Roles of Hostile Aggression and Gender presents a longitudal study done on 674 Mexican children ages 10 to 12 over a period of two years. The main questions addressed in the…

and after birth ideas to create less stress with new parents and babies here in the US. The First policy seen in Finland that should be adopted by the US is the amount of leave the women gets for having the baby. Finland offer both maternal and paternal leave. Jennifer Chait (writer of an article titled Finland’s Family Benefits Prove Why it’s Ranked the Number One Place to be a Parent…

and Rosaleen, a black women whom T. Ray “[has] pulled...out of the peach orchard”(Kidd 2) to pick up responsibilities around the house that Lily’s mother had taken care of. Lily’s father is not up to the task of raising Lily alone. A girl needs a maternal figure in her life while she is growing up to guide her and give her love. Lily searches for the guidance she needs in T. Ray initially. Once T. Ray is unable to help Lily, she strives to find assistance elsewhere. T. Ray treats Lily poorly.…

revolving focus in women 's health discourse. The events of pregnancy and motherhood are generally important milestones that may occur in the lives of women. According to the World Health Organization (2014), each day there are approximately 800 maternal deaths across the globe due to childbirth complications, and 99% of which are preventable deaths that occur in developing countries. The reason for this is that mothers face more difficulty in accessing health resources in developing countries,…

they were animal cruelty , because Harry mentioned that he didn 't like animals and didn 't care for them. But did people realize what was the outcome of these experiments. According to Robert Lickliter, “ His groundbreaking work clearly showed that maternal separation had a profound impact on subsequent, behavioral, social, and emotional development” (398). The separation of a mother changes you. I agree it would be a huge impact but why would it be an impact? It is because the love that a…

Breastfeeding for New Mothers Imagine how it might feel to be a new mother who has decided to breastfeed her baby. There are so many thoughts and questions swirling around in her brain. Is she doing it right? Is the baby getting enough milk? Perhaps most importantly, how to hold and position the baby. These are just a few of the questions that as an expecting mother, I wonder about. Although breastfeeding is a natural process, each new mother will go through her own process of trial and error…