Center Harmony

Pregnancy and childbirth often have negative effect on the female libido. Watch out, you intimate life should not go down the drain – every aspect of your relationship matters!
Why Do Mothers Loose Interest after Childbirth?
Women tend to get absorbed in over-caring for their little, sweet darlings, forgetting that the world still keeps its usual fast pace. With time, young mothers may get so engrossed with their baby routine that the partner simply turns into another person who HAS TO cater for the baby’s needs.
What Has Happened in between?
Pregnancy effects are …

 Women’s life in India may seem almost unreal to the Western reader. When a girl is born, many parents consider it a burden or even a curse: they have to protect the girl, making sure that she is a virgin before marriage; when she gets married, parents have to pay dowry –  money, houses, cars, and jewelry –  sometimes going over 60,000 pounds. An Indian woman explained that having a girl came with many strings attached. It is a problem if the girl is pretty, but it is also a …

Grandparent headed households are an important phenomenon in today’s society. In the United States, about 4.5 million children under 18 are raised by their grandparents. Most of these families live in poverty or beyond the threshold. Furthermore, no parent is present at home for about one third of these children. There are many reasons for the increasing number of grandparent headed households (they grew by 13 percent between 1991 and 1993, for instance): child abandonment, violence, incarceration, death, unemployment and economic hardship, teenage pregnancy, HIV infection and AIDS, substance abuse, …

The offences of women prisoners are prevailingly related to drugs, prostitution or crimes related to domestic abuse. They are often themselves victims of sexual, physical and psychological abuse. Most are sentenced for non-violent crimes. According to statistics just under 6% of the total prison population in the United Kingdom constitutes female offenders. However, a whopping 66% (above 70% in the US) have dependent children, and around one third of them are sole guardians. These women feel they have failed as parents and suffer the shame and separation from their children. …

Do we know how to become good parents?
Regardless of whether we have children or this is the important event that we expect, we all aim at becoming good parents. We do so – even when the meaning of “good parenting” seems too evasive to us. We read, listen to the stories of others, observe, and remember our own parents` upbringing methods. At the same time, we are hardly prepared for this huge responsibility – to create and raise a human being.
What have we learnt throughout our entire life?
It happens that …