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Research has found that as pet ownership increases, fertility declines in the United States. Many single people have lost interest in growing families due to high cost of child care and lack of time. Other people speculate that it is easier to manage pets than children and pets give them more freedom than children. The main objective of this research therefore was to find out through Bowlby's attachment theory the extent to which preference to pet relates with other variables like pet attachment, security, loss, care and communication. The researcher developed six hypotheses and two research questions. Survey samples of 274 respondents were collected through Qualtrics using Amazon Mturk as recruitment platform. Ethical approval was gotten from an institute's review board. Studies show significant connection between pet attachment, pet security but show no significance to pet preference as many of the participants still prefer to have children. However, there is a need for government's intervention in terms of improving care for both pets and children.

This study investigated maternal mortality solutions mentioned on Twitter by maternal health advocacy organizations in the United States. Using qualitative content analysis, we examined tweets from 20 advocacy organizations and found that the majority of the tweets focused on policy, healthcare, community, and individual solutions. The most tweeted policy solutions include tweets advocating signing birth equity, paid family leave, Medicaid expansion, and reproductive justice bills, whereas the most tweeted community solutions were funding community organizations, hiring community doulas, and building community health centers. The most tweeted individual solutions were storytelling, self-advocacy, and self-care. These findings provide insights into the perspectives and priorities of advocacy organizations working to address maternal mortality in the United States and can inform future efforts to combat this critical public health issue.

In 2020, former NBA player Dwyane Wade discussed how his child, Zaya came out as transgender. He used his platform to generate discussions about Black parenting specifically parenting a child in the Black transgender community. In the past 3 years, Wade and his celebrity wife Gabrielle Union have shared their parental journey of Zaya through social media and mainstream media. This study explores the identity complexities of critical race parenting through media platforms. By openly using social media and mass media to support Zaya, they opened the world to the journey of parenting a transgender Black child. The study addressed the significance of social media as an educational and activism tool in marginalized communities as a way to confront media stereotypes of Black families.