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Black skin tone preferences were explored among 98 black school-age children. Findings suggest a preference for honey brown rather than lighter or darker skin tones. Concept analysis generated six categories of reasons for the choice, identifying differences related to age and gender.
As increased numbers of teen mothers choose to keep and rear their children, the topic of their childrearing abilities has become the subject of intense theorizing, philosophizing, and research. Research about the developmental deviations of teen mothers' children has suggested that teen mothers are at risk for childrearing failure. The mechanisms through which the multiple, complex, and interactive variables operate to produce the children's less than optimal developmental outcomes remain obscure. In this article selected examples of teen childrearing research are reviewed to provide the background for a discussion of selected methodological and conceptual issues. Implications for nursing practice and research are discussed in terms of a collaborative researcher-clinician effort.
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This article is based on the premise that African- and Mexican-American children's responses to health and illness are rooted in their socialization into group perspectives that have been shaped by particular social and economic realities. Nurses are expected to provide care to African- and Mexican-American children, even though nurses may not have been educated to understand the effect of socialized perspectives on their practices. The purposes of this article are to highlight how differences in perspectives and ideologies create misunderstanding and to provide nurses with some examples of how their behavior might be interpreted by African- and Mexican-American children. The major practice implications center around the points that the motivations for African- and Mexican-American children's behavior may be different from those of European-American children, even though the observable behaviors may be similar and the children of these two groups may bring additional socialized fears and anxieties to the hospital setting. Examples of actual practice situations are used to illustrate the major points.