title: Co-sleeping: gender differences in college students' retrospective reports of sleeping with parents during childhood.
abstract: 161 women and 111 men, Caucasian college students, provided retrospective information about their patterns of sleeping during childhood. The practice of co-sleeping was common, with 33.7% reporting that they co-slept in their parents' room during their first week after birth, 29.4% during the first month after birth, and 27.5% during their second month after birth. In addition, 6.3% of women and 11.9% of men reported that they co-slept during the entire first year after birth. Finally, a sex-specific pattern of co-sleeping was found with more women reporting that they co-slept with their parents during their first week and first month after birth, but a greater percentage of men than women reported that they co-slept with their parents at older ages. It appears that girls are removed from the parents' room at a younger age and more frequently than are boys.
authors.affiliation: Department of Applied Health Science, Indiana University, Bloomington 47405, USA.
authors.forename: R E
authors.initials: RE
authors.lastname: Billingham
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Zentall
mesh_terms: D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D012890:Sleep; D012931:Social Environment; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*