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Objectives. We investigated the relationships among early childhood caries (ECC), mouth pain, and nutritional status in children aged 1 to 6 years in Southern and Central Vietnam. Methods. A total of 593 parent–child pairs were recruited from 5 kindergartens or preschools in Ho-Chi Minh City and Da Nang. Parents completed surveys about dietary habits, oral health practices, and children’s mouth pain experience; children received anthropometric assessment and dental examinations. Results. There was a high prevalence of dental caries (74.4%), mostly untreated, and mouth pain (47.1%). Moderate correlations were found between parents’ and children’s consumption of soda (ρ = 0.361; P < .001) and salty snacks (ρ = 0.292; P < .001). Severity of ECC was associated with decreased weight- and body mass index-for-age z-scores. Presence of pulp-involved caries was associated with strikingly lower height-for-age (mean difference = 0.66; P = .001), weight-for-age (mean difference = 1.17; P < .001), and body mass index-for-age (mean difference = 1.18; P < .001) z-scores. Mouth pain was associated with lower body mass index-for-age z-scores (mean difference = 0.29; P = .013). Conclusions. ECC might negatively affect children’s nutritional status, which might be mediated by the depth of decay, chronic inflammation, and mouth pain. Family-based and prevention-oriented nutrition and oral health programs are needed and should start during pregnancy and infancy.

This thesis examines the influence that first-generation Vietnamese immigrant parents have on the academic and professional achievements of their Australian-born children. The representation of this second-generation cohort in tertiary education and in the professional workplace is quite high, especially when considered in relation to the first generation’s low socio-economic status. Though popular discourse may reduce these achievements to outcomes of “tiger parenting” or “Asian parenting”, this fails to capture the processes through which these Vietnamese immigrants facilitate their children’s academic and professional successes. In order to understand these achievements, and how they came to be, this thesis focuses on how second-generation Vietnamese Australians are moved towards educational and occupational success as a result of their parents’ interventions. It draws on 32 semistructured interviews with Vietnamese Australians of different generations, while also analysing objects that these participants shared during their interviews.This study uses Bourdieusian notions of capital and habitus, as well as the concept of affect. Much research applies Bourdieu’s capital to highlight how parents’ level of cultural capital can contribute to their children’s scholastic achievements, but this alone fails to capture the dynamic and turbulent parent-child relationships that were revealed by participants in this study. Indeed, one of the key limitations of a notion of capital is its focus on strategy and competition (Crossley, 2001a; Lareau & Weininger, 2003; Savage et al., 2005; Swartz, 1997), which overlooks the affective dimensions of educational and occupational aspirations and trajectories. To that end, the concept of affect is used to highlight the effect of these relations on second-generation Vietnamese Australians, which can contribute to the development of dispositions in their habitus. In particular, the experience of migration shapes the care that first-generation Vietnamese parents have for their children and their futures. It is this care that influences their strategic interventions in relation to schooling and work. This is reflected by their aspirations, as well as by the home- and community-based practices they use. These parenting interventions engender dispositions in the second-generation children that facilitate action towards, and motivation for, academic and professional achievement.By bringing together these notions of capital, habitus, and affect, the thesis demonstrates the ways in which the experience of migration can resonate in the lives of first- and secondgeneration Vietnamese Australians, informing the ways in which care and strategy are interwoven. Moreover, it provides insight into the tensions that can underpin this pursuit of academic and professional success, as the second-generation children can experience affective responses of gratitude, resentment, guilt, acceptance, and shame as a result of the parenting they receive. As such, this thesis offers a richer and more complete understanding of these achievements, by considering the impact of parent-child relationships.

THE Ron Rathbone Local History Prize not only encourages the Rockdale community to understand its past but helps it plan for the future. The competition, which began in 2006 in...