Correlations have been found between adverse childhood experiences in fathers’ lives and sleep disruption, inattention, anger, and anxiety in their children.
Child & Family Blog EditorJanuary 2021
Here we present articles on child abuse and harsh parenting and the impacts of this during early childhood development. Themes include the impact of corporal punishment and violent abuse on children and their future development. Child abuse and harsh parenting is a focus topic of the Child & Family Blog and we have commissioned a series of feature articles from the world’s leading researchers.
Reminiscing has been described as “emotional socialisation”, nurturing a child’s emotional development. Parents sensitively reminiscing about earlier experiences with their children is part of early…
Child & Family Blog EditorNovember 2019
Disentangling the neurological impacts of different adversities, such as child neglect and child abuse, shows biological pathways that underpin child development challenges.
Margaret SheridanOctober 2019
Brain development in children is influenced by good experiences, counteracting early trauma’s impacts, suggests neuroscience.
Seth PollakSeptember 2019
Many parents say they plan to stop corporal punishment of their children after a parenting skills program.
Seth ScholerJuly 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
A family systems approach to parental alienation is recommended, involving victims and perpetrator.
Child & Family Blog EditorFebruary 2019
A review of studies of shared parenting in the context of high conflict recommends more attention to supporting parenting quality.
Child & Family Blog EditorOctober 2018
