Preschool care should be universally available and offer the services that families need from pregnancy.
Professor Kenneth A DodgeAugust 2019
Articles on inequality from some of the world’s top child and family researchers.
Tackling inequality between children is a big area of child and family research at the moment. Research looks at the many factors that can contribute to gender, social, racial and childhood inequality – immigrant status, poverty, public health, neighbourhoods, unstable families. And what can address the impacts of inequality?
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
When a father supports a toddler’s autonomy, the child is likely to show better executive function at the age of five and so be readier…
Child & Family Blog EditorApril 2019
New data on test scores of five-year olds suggest supporting parents to balance work and care, and providing subsidised preschool daycare, could help to limit…
Child & Family Blog EditorMarch 2019
Support conversational capacities among parents on low incomes for language development in children that can cut poverty’s impact.
Jack O'SullivanFebruary 2019
Transforming supermarkets, bus stops and park benches for learning through play could cut educational gulfs between rich and poor.
Kathy Hirsh-Pasek and Roberta M. GolinkoffDecember 2018
Governments struggle to support positive, engaged fatherhood. Macroeconomics and political science might help explain what’s delaying policy reform.
Jack O'SullivanDecember 2018
