Children construct knowledge about death. They actively ask questions, they observe events and behaviors around them, they read books and watch films.
Child & Family Blog EditorMarch 2020
Latest Research
Articles from leading researchers, knowledge updates and more.
Positive coparenting leads to more father involvement and more father involvement leads to positive coparenting. It is chicken-and-egg.
Child & Family Blog EditorMarch 2020
The overall sensitivity of the fathers during play in this sample of 312 families - 119 African American fathers and 193 Latino fathers - was…
Child & Family Blog EditorFebruary 2020
Researchers have found that fathers who stimulate their 9-month-olds during play are more likely to enjoy secure attachment 3 to 9 months later.
Child & Family Blog EditorFebruary 2020
Sharing care of children within a community buffers children against differences in parenting between families.
Child & Family Blog EditorFebruary 2020
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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
Gender nonconforming youth are more likely to experience rejection and verbal, physical and sexual abuse from both parents and peers.
Child & Family Blog EditorFebruary 2020
Economic and technological changes mean that children’s learning styles, specific to industrialised societies, may spread worldwide.
Mary GauvainJanuary 2020
Child learning from each other in hunter-gatherer societies promotes collaborative problem-solving and can help us rethink approaches to child development.
Sheina Lew-LevyNovember 2019
How common stereotypes emerge in childhood: children don’t just learn from what adults say but also from what they don’t say
Child & Family Blog EditorNovember 2019
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An Assorted Pick
Research from 3 industrialised countries finds that early returns to work after childbearing do not pose a threat to the healthy development of children.
Children who have suffered multiple abuse are six times as likely as non-abused children to be vulnerable in several developmental domains.
Preschool care should be universally available and offer the services that families need from pregnancy.
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