Objectives: While the women's health consequences of intimate partner violence have received much research attention, less is known about how maternal abuse experiences affect infant health and ...
Mothers can be more likely than fathers to abuse children, according to data from one United Kingdom study and Child Protective Services in the United States. For many, maternal abuse—a mother’s abuse ...
Family relationships can shape us in profound ways, but when those bonds become toxic, the effects can last a lifetime. A medical student has come forward with a harrowing account of how years of ...
"Disappointing" is what CDC Reproductive Health Director Dr. Wanda Barfield calls the results of a new survey in which 1 in 5 women say they were mistreated during maternal care. That mistreatment ...
The CMS will give 17 states nearly $200 million over the next seven years to combat opioid misuse among expectant mothers and improve care for children impacted by the crisis. The agency on Thursday ...
Table 1 presents the demographics and background characteristics of the 4,141 mothers in this analysis. Approximately half of the sample was non-Hispanic black women (47.1%). The sample was fairly ...