The researchers found that a more important influence on the adopted child than having same-sex parents or heterosexual parents is how the family manages conflicts.
Child & Family Blog EditorSeptember 2019
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Finding the coping mechanisms make a difference to long-term outcomes, a team of researchers recommends targeted programs for children of divorce, focusing on coping mechanisms,…
Child & Family Blog EditorAugust 2019
Preschool care should be universally available and offer the services that families need from pregnancy.
Professor Kenneth A DodgeAugust 2019
Parents can help by also being curious, providing good answers and hosting open-ended conversations.
Professor Susan EngelJuly 2019
The key predictor of antisocial behavior and violent crime (as opposed to nonviolent crime) is poor emotion regulation in early childhood.
Child & Family Blog EditorJuly 2019
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“Educators, parents and policy makers should all be concerned at the rapid decline in unsupervised free play for children, which may damage early child development and later social and emotional learning.”
Stuart BrownFounder and President of National Institute for Play, California, USA
The best way to prevent chronic physical aggression in boys is intensive and long-term interventions initiated early in life targeting disadvantaged mothers.
Child & Family Blog EditorJuly 2019
Male violence, exceeds female violence by a very significant margin. The origins of this lie in early childhood development, with the first differences appearing in…
Child & Family Blog EditorJuly 2019
A father’s brain is shaped much more by extent to which he is engaged in caring, or has been in the past: the more/less he…
Child & Family Blog EditorJuly 2019
Researchers recommend further work to understand whether awe can help improve early learning.
Child & Family Blog EditorJuly 2019
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A Swedish study has shown that, when parents share custody, the children are 8.5% less likely to report high levels of stress.
Children raised in an adoptive family by two lesbian mothers show less gendered behavior than children adopted by gay fathers or heterosexual couples.
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