Community-engaged research that includes the meaningful participation of young mothers can make them feel heard and empowered, and it informs better policymaking on teen pregnancy.
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Parents are dealing with the traditional stresses of raising children, as well as new challenges like technology use. Governments, workplaces, friends and family can all help parents cope with stress.
In Canada, where fewer than 10 per cent of kids regularly eat school-provided meals, parents, especially mothers, are left to juggle school lunches, often under major pressure.
For stressed-out mothers, exercise can boost mental well-being. But if a fitness routine isn’t flexible, it can be just another task on an endless to-do list.
We can appreciate the exceptional performance of mothers in the Olympics, while also recognizing the challenges faced by mothers and the need for realistic role models of postpartum physical activity.
Women athletes in various stages of pregnancy have continually challenged the perception of what a woman can do while pregnant, but they need more support.
Moms execute more household tasks. But they’re also family executives, doing more of the thinking ahead and assigning that are part of all those chores – bad news for their mental health.
While there has been large advances and successes for athlete-mothers and progress since the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, there is still work to be done to improve postpartum care and support.
An essay by Alice Munro’s daughter about childhood sexual abuse has forced a reckoning with the legacy of the feminist icon and writer acclaimed for her ability to give voice to women’s lives.
Being able to recognize and respond to a child’s needs is about being attentive and caring for the child, and this can be achieved by any caregiver.
How can we better support breastfeeding mothers, particularly after they return to work? These are some of the policies and practical changes that evidence shows would make a difference.
People rarely speak plainly of birth, and even more rarely spell out the details in positive terms.
A parenting expert shares tips on how to celebrate moms and promote family well-being.
When resources are tight, mothers bear the costs of playing with their offspring even as they avoid socializing with others.
Mothers are smudged out and poorly cloaked beneath drapes in these 19th century portraits. But these photos are not so much relics of shoddy photography than an ode to childhood.
Equal shared parental responsibility will no longer automatically be considered to be in a child’s best interest. That’s a good thing, particularly in domestic violence situations.
Amid a housing affordability crisis, new research suggests the federal government should allocate resources to the housing needs of children being raised by single mothers.
Vaccine skepticism, and the broader medical mistrust and far-reaching anxieties it reflects, is not just a fringe position in the 21st century.
Their novels feature defiant heroines, who resist the tyranny of forced marriages and seek moral, intellectual and economic liberation.
Research shows a classed and racialized divide among women caring for their children in Canada today. It’s a divide that is having a negative financial impact on immigrant women doing this work.
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Professor of Sociology and Founding Director of The Future of Work Lab, Podcast at MissPerceived, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Child Public Health, Swansea University
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Assistant Professor in Kinesiology, University of The Fraser Valley
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Professor of Psychology, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Clinician Scientist, Canada Research Chair in Injury Prevention and Physical Activity for Health, Sport Medicine Physician, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University
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Senior Lecturer in Strategic Communication, CQUniversity Australia
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Physiotherapist & Postdoctoral Fellow, University of British Columbia
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Principal Lecturer in Family and Human Development, Arizona State University
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Adjunct Professor, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Western Sydney University
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Principal Lecturer in Social and Family Dynamics, Arizona State University
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Associate Professor Leeds University Business School, University of Leeds
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Associate Professor of Sociology, University of British Columbia
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Professor of Internal Medicine, University of Turku
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Honorary Associate Professor, Australian National University
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Senior Research Fellow, Australian Institute of Family Studies