Childcare

Paternity leave in the United States has been a growing controversy over the past few years. With parents wanting to both be involved with their child early on, the need for such benefit requires reevaluation in the workplace. With inadequate policies set in place, families often struggle with financial burdens, loss of employment, and gender identity/role issues. New parents should be allowed paternity leave, to get the opportunity to bond with baby, help their partner with any needs and those…

2013). As suggested by Mercier et al. (2013), women with an unwanted pregnancy are likely to have long-term depression due to the association with significant confounding by socio-economic factors. In addition to psychosocial factors, such as childcare related stress, history of depression, and unplanned pregnancy, lead to PPD, demographic factors are said to contribute to PPD as…

pressure to conform to the construction of the “good mother”. My mother and my aunts constantly feel they have to cook, clean, provide for their children and spouses. This is because my mother and my aunts believe they have been socialized that childcare and housework…

exam, as it is a requirement for nurses. Nurses get several different benefits. Nurses usually get the honor of receiving pay for holidays. Generally, nurses receive health insurance, paid sick days, and paid vacations. Many employers provide childcare and flexible work schedules. If you continue your education, you normally get more pay.…

skill that is required in order to become and stay a professional, successful childcare practitioner. Reflective practice has a variety of benefits within settings; these benefits can be gained through different strategies, such as, the reflective cycle, reviews, staff meetings, assessments and observations with constructive feedback. ‘Reflection is an essential part of working with children in any setting.’ (Childcare and education 4th edition) In 1998, Gibbs created a 6 stage…

may be time consuming, the single mother will eventually have more time to focus on herself and her child. Since a portion of single mothers are divorced, this path would be most beneficial to them, particularly if they desire to focus more on childcare. This path may also be suitable if the child is under the age of five and requires a significant deal of…

The new family should be welcomed to the service in a warm and inviting manner. Staff should be aware that Indigenous families may feel more comfortable in attending the centre in groups and that they have a complex family structure that heavily involves elders. The older woman maybe the child’s grandmother and she maybe accompanied by either the biological mother or ‘aunties’ that make up their community. Staff should understand Indigenous people and their need to make shared decisions about…

Better Safe Than Sorry Human papillomavirus, commonly known as HPV is an extremely infectious, causing around nine out of ten people to at some point in their lives become infected with it. This happens mostly within their late teens and can lead to serious health problems including but not limited to: genital warts, and many different types of cancer ranging from cancer of the vulva to cancer of the tongue and tonsils. I find that immunization should be heavily considered by parents…

changed and brought them into the job market. This has led to delayed marriage and delayed pregnancy, which means less time is being devoted to traditional gender roles of caregiver. Liana Sayer has examined whether these changes have had an effect on childcare, the distribution of household duties, leisure time and men’s…

The gender pay gap myth is something that is controversially talked about constantly. It is controversial because they are two sides to this, it isn’t a lopsided affair. It is a hotly debated issue by men and women, of both sides, on various high-profile means of media. The gender pay gap is simply not true. There is a perfectly good reason why women tend to earn less than men. The women make 80 pence to every pound men make will be looked at in-depth. The effects of childbirth and maternity…