To wrap an infant with long, narrow receiving blanket to prevent free movement

Injury to a baby caused by being shaken violently and repeatedly

Parenting style that produces children who are generally well balance due to parents who manage expectations and encourage and reward good, positive behavior

Parenting style that favors or enforces strict obedience to authority

The process by which we help children identify appropriate and inappropriate behavior, learn appropriate problem-solving strategies, develop impulse control, empathy and self-esteem

Parenting style that allows or is characterized by great or excessive freedom of behavior

Also called "confidential" and is a process by which an infant is adopted by another family, and the record of the biological parent(s) is kept sealed.

A medical practitioner specializing in children

Refers to the combination of relatives that comprise a family

The emotional and intellectual stages you pass through from childhood to your retirement years as a member of a family.

Surgical method of delivery

Causing or allowing a child under the age of 18 to be in a situation in which harm or injury to the child could result

Baby delivered before developed enough to survive

The process of forming an attachment or feeling of close connection between parent and child

The deliberate termination of pregnancy, most often performed during the first 28 weeks of pregnancy

Health care given during pregnancy

Methods used to prevent future behavioral problems in children and to teach their children about expectations, guidelines and principles

The birth of an infant that has died in the womb

Any act or failure to act on the part of a parent/caretaker, which results in death, serious physical, emotional, sexual harm, or neglect to a child under the age of 18.

Suffered by the mother following childbirth, typically arising from the combination of hormonal changes, psychological adjustment to motherhood, and fatigue.

Biological fatherhood

The regard that something is held to deserve; the importance, worth, of something

Birth defect in children born to alcoholic mother

Refers to the sharing of information and/or contacts between the adoptive and biological parents of an adopted child, before and/or after the placement of the child

Where the egg and the sperm meet and fertilize