Purpose: To identify and compare pre-treatment and post-treatment parental expectations and satisfaction concerning their child’s dental care under general anaesthesia. Participant characteristics were also investigated. Methods: Questionnaires were administered to all parents who attended the pre-operative anaesthesia consultation (pre-treatment group) and to all parents who returned for post-operative reassessment (post-treatment group). Participants were asked to rate the importance and frequency of 27 events on a four point Likert Scale. Parents were also asked to complete a participant characteristics information form. A score was calculated for each item in the questionnaires by multiplying the item’s mean “importance rating” and the item’s mean “expectation rating” and the items were ranked by scores. Results: Complete responses were obtained from 100 parents of the pre-treatment group and from 100 parents of the post-treatment group. In each group, the highest ranked elements were those representing information and communication while the physical conditions of care tended to be least valued by the parents. The rank-order of the importance scores showed a moderate to strong positive correlation with the rank-order of the frequency scores. Conclusion: Parents placed value on good communication and provision of information with regard to dental treatment of their children under general anaesthesia.

This paper explores parental alienation in custody and access litigation in Ontario, examining how parental alienation has been defined by various scholars, arguing in favour of the relevance of the term, and identifying a core definition which can be utilized in court. This paper also evaluates how Ontario courts have dealt with parental alienation claims to date, and identifies areas of weakness. Specifically, identification of, and response to, parental alienation is poor in cases where there are elements suggestive of both alienation and estrangement. Additionally, cases are not generally dealt with in a timely manner. Finally, this paper considers the possible benefits of youth acting as parties in parental alienation cases.

Purpose: To identify and compare pre-treatment and post-treatment parental expectations and satisfaction concerning their child’s dental care under general anaesthesia. Participant characteristics were also investigated. Methods: Questionnaires were administered to all parents who attended the pre-operative anaesthesia consultation (pre-treatment group) and to all parents who returned for post-operative reassessment (post-treatment group). Participants were asked to rate the importance and frequency of 27 events on a four point Likert Scale. Parents were also asked to complete a participant characteristics information form. A score was calculated for each item in the questionnaires by multiplying the item’s mean “importance rating” and the item’s mean “expectation rating” and the items were ranked by scores. Results: Complete responses were obtained from 100 parents of the pre-treatment group and from 100 parents of the post-treatment group. In each group, the highest ranked elements were those representing information and communication while the physical conditions of care tended to be least valued by the parents. The rank-order of the importance scores showed a moderate to strong positive correlation with the rank-order of the frequency scores. Conclusion: Parents placed value on good communication and provision of information with regard to dental treatment of their children under general anaesthesia.

This paper explores parental alienation in custody and access litigation in Ontario, examining how parental alienation has been defined by various scholars, arguing in favour of the relevance of the term, and identifying a core definition which can be utilized in court. This paper also evaluates how Ontario courts have dealt with parental alienation claims to date, and identifies areas of weakness. Specifically, identification of, and response to, parental alienation is poor in cases where there are elements suggestive of both alienation and estrangement. Additionally, cases are not generally dealt with in a timely manner. Finally, this paper considers the possible benefits of youth acting as parties in parental alienation cases.

Purpose and methods: Effective parental education about newborn screening (NBS) may help to maximize the benefits and minimize the harms of screening. We investigated experiences, knowledge and opinions regarding NBS education among Ontario mothers. Mothers whose infants recently received NBS were invited to complete a mailed survey (n=1712). Results: Of the 750 participants, 93% recalled their infant receiving NBS, while 69% recalled receiving information about NBS. Of this group, fewer than 50% reported receiving information prenatally, yet a majority of mothers (64%) viewed this as the most important time for education. Those who received information prenatally reported higher satisfaction (OR 2.4). The 40% of mothers who recalled being informed about the meaning of results had higher knowledge about NBS (OR 2.7) and reported higher satisfaction (OR 4.2). Conclusions: Parental education about NBS could place greater emphasis on the prenatal period and on fostering understanding about the meaning of results.

The purpose of this action research is to discuss character education involved in reading teaching of class management. The study body is to 20 student in my class. Data were collected from videotaping, recording, interviews, artworks, parental feedbacks, and checklists. There are four purposes of this action research: 1.To plan, design, and apply the integrated curriculum of character education involved in reading teaching. 2.To discuss the influences of character education involved in reading teaching on students¡¦ respect. 3. To discuss the influences of character education involved in reading teaching on students¡¦ careing. 4.To realize the effection of character education involved in reading teaching and provide research. There are some conclusions from the action research of character education involved in reading teaching through the half a year: 1.The manifestation of character respect and care possesses the effect of immediate and sustained. 2. The reading teaching of character education the whole effect is over the starting behavior and the next class of no reading teaching on character education. The researcher made the following suggestions: 1.The course design is connect to student¡¦s experience 2.The choice of teaching material can integrate teacher team¡¦s research and design. 3.The teaching active should break the center of research and give student a lot of opportunities to development. 4. The multievaluation active must teacher and student¡¦s common participate and emphasize the value, belief and benefit of potential curriculum. 5. The character education should emphasize the interaction and feedback of teacher and student.

The immediate effect of maternal control of their daughter's eating is well documented. However, the longterm effect of both maternal and paternal control of eating during childhood on adults' current eating attitudes and behaviors has been a relatively unexplored area. Parents play a central role in shaping the family eating environment, which provides a context for the child's relationship with food for years to come (Birch, Fisher, Grimm-Thomas, Markey, Sawyer & Johnson, 2001). The present study focused on expanding the existing knowledge base concerning parental control over eating. Two hundred sixty-seven female adult participants completed a questionnaire packet designed to measure maternal and paternal restriction and pressure to eat during childhood, family mealtime stress during childhood, current restriction, binge eating, emotional eating, eating from external cues, and current affect during meals. Results indicated that parental pressure to eat during childhood are related to restricted eating, emotional eating, and eating from external cues during adulthood. Family mealtime stress during childhood was related to binge eating, restricted eating, emotional eating, eating from external cues, and negative affect while eating during adulthood. Implications for practice and recommendations for future research are presented.

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In the Child Protection work, the part that may have major impact on the family parent-child relationship include emergent settlement of child, the exercise of parental right on behalf of the parents during the settlement period, the governing agency may, after assessing the care of parents to the child, appeal for the suspending parental right or guardianship to the court to protect the life and security of growth environment of the child. Children becomes the subjects of protection administration and the decision makers of their rights and interest are shifted from the parents to the country, and the frontline decision makers are the social makers in child protection, and the identification of social workers in parents, children and the country is often associated with the suspension of parental rights. Hence, in exercising public right, it involved in diversified and overall consideration factors and should be clarified. This study targeted at the social workers in child protection of Kaohsiung City and the method of research is document analysis, applying analysis on the file documents of the child protection cases with suspension of parental rights appealed to and granted by the courts. After the analysis, the research found that the factors considered by child protection social workers including the facts of abuse, the seriousness of abuse, the abusing parents¡¦ negligence in the repetition of abuses, non-improvement of abusing conduct, refusal in acknowledge of abuse negligence, lake of repentance, supports of relatives and friends and the reaction of children to the parents, and the factors frequently considered are the fact of abuse and the supports of relatives and friends and the reaction of children to the parents is the least. The factors considered identified from the analysis of this research may be applied to build and develop an index in suspension of parental right and will be helpful in the assessment of child protection social workers. ¡eKey words¡fChild protection, Parental rights, Children¡¦s right