Hence, the migration behaviour, and the decision to return, may be driven not only by individual life-cycle considerations but also by dynastic motives such as offspring's welfare in the future13.
The category 'caring behavior' encompasses not only nursing per se but also activities like nest building [52], which, however, are of immediate importance for the offspring's welfare.
Joy coupled with grief, and the shattered 'safe' world seemed together to catalyse the women's constant worry of their living offspring's welfare.
Furthermore, Murphy explains how the new definition of 'fatherhood' is driven by the government's goal of collecting child support from men whose biological offspring are in the welfare system, as well as lawsuits from men aiming to avoid financial responsibility for their dependents.
In addition to having positive health effects, the opportunity for the cow and calf to engage in mother-offspring behaviour can be seen as a welfare issue.
10) note that natural selection might well equip humans or other sophisticated organisms with ultimate desires to foster the welfare of their offspring under certain circumstances.
Information concerning growth in the offspring was derived from childs welfare clinics, which monitor growth during childhood at 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7½, 9, 11, 14, 18, 24, 36, and 45 months of age.
One recent Norwegian study found associations between parent anxiety and depression and medical welfare dependence in young adulthood among their offspring [ 34].
By these rites, it is believed a childless woman may gain offspring, while a mother may secure the longevity and welfare of her child by the grace of the goddess.
Welfare State's father, the Liberal William Beveridge, described his offspring as "an attack on Want", one of the five evil giants that had to be slain in postwar Britain.
