Both increasing parent-child cognitive stimulation and reducing maternal stress have cascading positive impacts on each other as the child grows up, making the case for…
Child & Family Blog EditorNovember 2019
Research Articles
The links between parental involvement in education and children’s performance at school are statistically significant, though small. The only exception is parents’ assistance with homework;…
Child & Family Blog EditorNovember 2019
problem. Peer relations correlate strongly with later social and emotional development. Interventions seeking to reduce this negativity are important.
Child & Family Blog EditorOctober 2019
According to the World Health Organisation, children will suffer 80% of the illnesses, injuries and deaths attributable to climate change.
Child & Family Blog EditorOctober 2019
Adversity among both mothers and fathers correlates with self-harm and suicide in children. The more the adversity the parents experience, the more likely self-harm and…
Child & Family Blog EditorOctober 2019
Less parental leave for same-sex male parents excludes them from benefits to child development.
Child & Family Blog EditorOctober 2019
Mothers and fathers are on average equally sensitive to their four-month-olds in different situations – a caring task, a playing task and during the “still…
Child & Family Blog EditorOctober 2019
But when the distress of the bisexual parents was controlled for, there was no residual difference between the children of these and other parents, both…
Child & Family Blog EditorOctober 2019
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