Misc
Infants in Vietnam and China begin this process guided by caregivers using low whistles for guidance.
What is potty training?
While attachment theory is based on a “dyadic” (two-person) relationship between an infant and caregiver, as in a middle-class nuclear family in the U.S., many cultures in the world are based on this type of social structure.
What is polyadic, communal, or collectivist?
Rather than being cared for by a single adult or two, babies in some rural farming cultures tend to be supervised by this group.
Who are older children?
Compared with white women in the United States, these women are two to three times as likely to die from pregnancy-related complications, regardless of income and education levels?
Who are Black women?
To prioritize the cultural value of eating together as a family, moms from this country have been observed “force-feeding” infants and even waking them in order to eat.
What is Italy?
This sleeping practice, frowned upon by most pediatricians in the United States because of safety risks, is common in most parts of the world.
What is co-sleeping?
The official term used to describe the children targeted by the Head Start Program when it was first implemented in 1965.
What is "culturally deprived"?
This acronym for Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic culture points to the fact that it may be the exception, rather than the norm.
What is WEIRD?
As of 2022, parents of an infant in the U.S. could expect to spend up to $17,000 per year for this, potentially limiting many social development opportunities for children in lower-income families.
What is child care?
This country is one of only 10 in the world, and the only high-income country, with no national paid parental leave policy.
What is the United States?
While this is universally considered ideal for infant nutrition, there are obstacles for many new parents, including practical and cultural factors.
What is breast milk/breastfeeding?
Parents in Scandinavian countries purposefully select this sleeping environment for their babies, believing it promotes a healthy immune system?
What is sleeping bundled up outdoors (even in freezing temperatures)?
Moms in Cameroon and Kenya provide more opportunities for their infants to do this independently compared with moms in the U.S., Italy, and Argentina.
What is sit independently?
In contrast to the famous Strange Situation experiments in the U.S, infants in villages in Cameroon have been observed doing this when approached by an unfamiliar adult.
What is relaxing?
This practice, which functions to increase babies’ vocalization skills, has been found to be universal across diverse cultural and linguistic groups in Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Cameroon, France, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kenya, South Korea, and the United States.
What is maternal vocalization?
The U.S. rates 54th for this sad statistic, behind all European countries, Canada, Japan, Singapore, Slovenia, Serbia, and Slovakia.
What is infant mortality?
In some areas of this country, breastfeeding commonly continues well into childhood, and even adults sometimes drink breast milk.
What is Mongolia?
Newborn babies in Finland sleep in this type of bed for the first few months. It is supplied by the government and is given to the family of every newborn; it includes clothes, diapers, health information, and other helpful items. It even includes condoms!
What is a cardboard box?