Psychosocial screening and interventions to parents of HSCT children is recommended. Parents reported additional parenting practices, education level and employment status. Logistic regression was used in analyses. Results: Reporting simultaneously high amount of parenting practices and parental care compared to few practices and no parental care was among children associated with a higher probability of frequent nutrient-dense food intake, having a regular meal pattern, sleeping at least 10 hours per night, and having less than 2 hours daily screen time. The odds ratio for less screen time was highest when reporting a high amount of practices and no parental care. The combination few practices and parental care increased the odds for higher frequent intake of nutrient-dense food. No associations were found between parenting practices, parental care and intake of energy-rich food. Conclusion: A high amount of parenting practices concerning daily routines and simultaneously parental care seem to be associated with more favorable health behaviours in children. Background: A higher prevalence of disruptive behavior is found in boys than in girls. The causes and pathways to these problems, such as socio-economic deprivation and maternal depression, remain unclear, particularly in relation to potentially different pathways by gender and at younger ages. The objective of this paper is to examine the relationship between maternal depression and disruptive behavior and potential pathways via socio-economic circumstance and parenting behaviours in boys and girls in early childhood. Data used were from the UK Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) made up of 18,552 families recruited between 2000-2001 when the cohort children were aged 9 months old, with follow ups at ages 3 years old (n=15,590) and 5 years old (n=15246). Findings: At aged 3 12% of boys and 10% of girls had a high conduct score; whilst 11% of boys and 7% of girls had a high hyperactivity score. Boys with a depressed mother had a 4.5 times higher odds (unadjusted) of having a high conduct score (p<0.0001) and a two and half times higher odds (unadjusted) of a high hyperactivity score (p<0.0001) compared with boys whose mothers were not depressed. Girls with a depressed mother had a 4 times higher odds (unadjusted) of a high conduct score (p <0.0001) and a three-fold higher odds (unadjusted) of a high hyperactivity score (p<0.0001) compared with girls whose mothers were not depressed. The relationship was tested using logistic regression models controlling for child and parent characteristics, socio-economic circumstance and parenting behaviors. The odds for both boys and girls of depressed mother having a high conduct score remained significantly higher compared to boys and girls of non-depressed mothers but were attenuated to two-fold higher odds. The odds of boys with a depressed mother having a high hyperactivity score remained significantly higher compared to boys of nondepressed mothers but decreased to a one and half times higher odds, whilst for girls the relationship was no longer significant. Conclusion: The relationship between maternal depression and a high conduct and hyperactivity score in 3 year old boys and a high conduct score in girls is not wholly accounted for by socio-economic circumstance or parenting behaviors and therefore other mechanisms are likely to be additionally important. Background: Mothers of young children are increasingly combining paid work with childrearing. Empirical evidence on the effects of maternal employment on children is contradictory and has little work has considered the impact of maternal employment within the context of the employment patterns of both parents.