Children develop in their family life through human relations, especially interactions with family members. This study examined how children see their relations with their family members. A questionnaire survey was conducted on 329 mothers of children, and 64 five-year old children were interviewed to ask about happy and unhappy situations in their family life and the children's concern for their families. The results of the study indicated that the mothers knew the situations that their children considered happy but also that the mothers' recognition of the situations that the children considered unhappy differed from the children's recognition. The children who were concerned about their family and had a strong relationship with their family tended to feel that they were in a happy situation when their parents played with them or listened to them and in an unhappy situation when the family fought.

  In order to provide information on wigs to patients, we conducted a questionnaire survey on wigs to females who lost their hair as a side effect of cancer treatment. We focused on product properties, degree of satisfaction, and use evaluation of the wigs. The results obtained were as follows:

  (1) Purchase behavior was considered based on the analysis of the possession ratio of wigs by their product properties: for medical care or for general use, ready-made or made-to-order, human, mixed, or artificial hair, and purchase price.

  (2) Thirteen point five percent of respondents indicated that they were dissatisfied with their wigs. Many respondents stated positively that wearing wigs enhanced their social and psychological well-being in the additional comments portion of the survey.

  (3) It became clear that there was dissatisfaction in summer from a feeling of stuffiness. No other negative answers in use evaluation were mentioned. However, negative opinions such as unnatural appearance, size inconvenience, and difficulty in shampooing and caring for them were stated in in the additional comments portion of the survey.

  (4) No specific differences were seen in use evaluation by the wig specifications, but higher-priced wigs tended to be more highly evaluated than lower-priced wigs.

  We carried out a survey, using a questionnaire, on the approaches being taken by nursery schools to infants' finger-feeding and on nursery school teachers' perspective on the importance of finger-feeding and related factors, in order to obtain basic materials which would assist in the promotion of infants' finger-feeding at nursery schools. The survey targeted nursery school teachers working at 1,627 nursery schools in Tokyo and the response rate was 37.1％.

  Approximately 95％ of the responding nursery schools are actively promoting finger-feeding. Nursery schools taking proactive approaches are encouraging cooperation among nursery school staff and are also actively providing assistance to infants' families.

  Many of the nursery school teachers report that infants active in finger-feeding later become highly-motivated towards eating. The survey suggests that factors relating to finger-feeding include infants' interest in eating, how they are fed at home, forms of meals and infants' individual likes and dislikes.

  From the above, we are of the opinion that in order to promote infants' finger-feeding at nursery schools it is critical that cooperation among nursery school staff be encouraged, that infants' interest in eating be fostered, and that cooking staff-including nationally-certified and other nutritionists-provide meals in forms which facilitate finger-feeding. Furthermore, we believe it is necessary for nursery schools to communicate the importance of finger-feeding to infants' families so that an environment at home can be developed where infants' finger-feeding is accelerated.