Our focus in this book is public governance and community leadership, a broader concept than simple traditional management. The term management is too formal and limited in its scope. In its narrow sense it focuses on the formalised administrative tasks of chief executives and managers within organisational settings. Although the book utilises the traditional management process as a point of reference, public management is too complex a subject to be limited to the classical management model. Public management is multifaceted. It covers developmental, political, administrative, cultural, sociological and ecological aspects of concerned communities, among other related issues.

It is a fact that mothers are pre-disposed to respond to their babies' needs in one way or the other. However, do all mothers perceive and become aware of their babies' needs in the same way? This book attempts to explore how differences in socio- economic factors affect mothers and the ways they respond to the behaviour patterns of their infants. It uses research data to argue that differences in marital, employment and educational statuses affect mothers differently in interpreting and perceiving the behaviour patterns of their infants resulting in some babies being at risk because of failure by these mothers to respond to them appropriately and adequately. It is therefore the belief of the authors that after going through this book, the readers, especially mothers with infants, will have no doubt in their minds of how best they can respond to their babies in manners that are most satisfying and most rewarding.