Cord blood epigenome-wide meta-analysis in six European-based child cohorts identifies signatures linked to rapid weight...
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Comparing Attachment Across Cultures, Child Gender, Age, and Parental Gender: Vietnamese Versus Belgian Adolescents' Sel...
The short form of the Experiences in Close Relationships Scale-Revised Child version (ECR-RC) is a promising self-report measure of anxious and avoidant attachment in Western adolescents, yet little is known about its psychometric properties across cultures. More importantly, little is known about attachment styles across cultures, child gender, an...
What Determines the Child Penalty in the Netherlands? The Role of Policy and Norms
Having children can result in large earnings penalties for mothers. Using extensive administrative data from the Netherlands, we assess the magnitude and drivers of the effects of first childbirth on parents’ earnings trajectories in the Netherlands. We show that mothers’ earnings are 46% lower compared to their pre-birth earnings trajectory, where...
Cabotegravir, the long-acting integrase strand transfer inhibitor, potently inhibits HTLV-1 transmission in vitro
Human T cell Lymphotropic Virus Type 1 (HTLV-1) is a deltaretrovirus most prevalent in Southwestern Japan, sub-Saharan Africa, Australia, South America and the Carribean. Latest figures approximate 10 million people worldwide to be infected with HTLV-1. This is likely a significant underestimation due to lack of screening in endemic areas and absen...
L’enfermement domestique des mères
Le confinement décrété, en France, en mars 2020 pour faire face à l’épidémie de Covid-19 a brutalement renforcé le rôle du logement dans le déroulement de la vie quotidienne. Cet article analyse les conditions matérielles dans lesquelles s’est déroulé le confinement et la manière dont les logiques d’assignation domestique se sont recomposées pendan...
Socio-Economic Impacts of COVID-19 on Working Mothers in France
Published in Frontiers in Sociology
Beyond its devastating consequences for public health, the COVID-19 pandemic had a major impact on gender inequalities, labour markets and families. Compared to many European countries, the French approach to lockdown was among the more stringent, although the measures taken by the French government to support employment, to some extent, mitigated ...
International differences in gradients in early childhood overweight and obesity: the role of maternal employment and fo...
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Socio-economic differences in BMI/overweight can already be observed from early childhood. There are important cross-country differences in such gradients in later childhood and adulthood, but few studies have assessed whether such international variation is already evident from early childhood. To explain gradients in childhood BMI/overweight, mos...
In utero exposure to mercury is associated with increased susceptibility to liver injury and inflammation in childhood
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Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the most prevalent cause of liver disease in children. Mercury (Hg), a ubiquitous toxic metal, has been proposed as an environmental factor contributing to toxicant‐associated fatty liver disease. We investigated the effect of prenatal exposure to Hg on childhood liver injury by combining epidemiological ...
The medicalisation of female genital cutting: Harm reduction or social norm?
Published in Sociology of health & illness
Today, female genital cutting is increasingly practised by trained healthcare providers. While opposition to medicalised female genital cutting (FGC) is strong, little is known about the underlying motivation for this medicalisation trend in practising communities. We formulated three hypotheses based on medicalisation theories. The medicalisation ...
How do adolescents deal with intrusive parenting? The role of coping with psychologically controlling parenting in inter...
Introduction: While research has shown convincingly that psychologically controlling parenting increases the risk for internalizing and externalizing problems among adolescents, little is known about how adolescents cope with such parenting. This study examined the role of two non-autonomous ways of coping (i.e., compulsive compliance and oppositio...
