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Child Emotional Abuse And Its Relationship To Obesity, Kelly Anderson Driscoll
Child Emotional Abuse And Its Relationship To Obesity, Kelly Anderson Driscoll
Sociology & Criminal Justice Theses & Dissertations
Over the past 30 years in the United States childhood obesity has more than tripled (Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 2010). In 2008, 18.5% of adolescents of the age 12-18 years old were obese in the United States (Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 2010). With the increase of obesity Americans have spent approximately 9% of their total medical costs on obesity-related illnesses (Finkelstein, Fiebelkorn, &Wang, 2003). Previous research documented the relationship between virtually every form of child abuse and subsequent obesity. Restricting focus to child emotional abuse, while studies have linked emotional abuse to the long-term consequence of …
The Ticking Of The “Biological Clock”: Worry About Future Fertility In Nulliparous Women, Karen E. Kersting
The Ticking Of The “Biological Clock”: Worry About Future Fertility In Nulliparous Women, Karen E. Kersting
Theses and Dissertations
Abstract
Title: The Ticking of the “Biological Clock”: Worry about Future Fertility in Nulliparous Women
By: Karen Kersting, M.A., M.S.
A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Virginia Commonwealth University, 2013.
Major Director: Kathleen M. Ingram, J.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychology
Department of Psychology
Modern women are waiting until later in their lives to have children than women of previous generations, a trend influenced by a number of factors including financial stability, dating norms, and career goals and responsibilities. As women age, their fertility may decline …