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Essential Nonmedical Perinatal Services for Multiple Birth Families

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2014

P.E. Malmstrom ,
T. Faherty  and
P. Wagner
P.E. Malmstrom*
Affiliation:
Twinline, Berkeley, California, USA
T. Faherty
Affiliation:
Twinline, Berkeley, California, USA
P. Wagner
Affiliation:
Twinline, Berkeley, California, USA
*
Director, Twinline, P.O. Box 10066, Berkeley, CA 94709, USA

Abstract

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Parents of multiples suffer unique stresses which can severely impair family health and welfare. Access to information, counseling, and community resources increase parents' abilities to cope, and reduce the risk of child and spousal abuse. Twinline, a social service agency in Califormia, provides a variety of free and low-cost nonmedical perinatal services to meet the needs of a heterogeneous population of over 1,000 multiple birth families and parents expecting multiples in the urban and rural counties of the San Francisco Bay Area.

Keywords

TwinsFamily stressPerinatal careSocial services

Information

Type
Research Article
Information
Acta geneticae medicae et gemellologiae: twin research , Volume 37 , Issue 2 , April 1988 , pp. 193 - 198
Copyright
Copyright © The International Society for Twin Studies 1988

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