Our survey of 7,048 German parents during the COVID-19 lockdown revealed that parents felt stressed, and this affected their ability to provide learning activities for…
Elisa OppermannOctober 2020
Mental health articles from some of the world’s top child and family researchers.
We cover new research on factors that influence children’s mental health – their neighborhoods, family instability, parenting and peers.
Pandemic shows children’s well-being depends on parents staying in good mental shape.
Suniya S. LutharOctober 2020
The greatest influence occurs at home, but there remains a lot to understand about harnessing parents’ – and particularly fathers’ – potential to help.
Jennifer E. LansfordOctober 2020
There’s little evidence that screen time harms adolescents’ mental health, and the pandemic highlights how we should look for its benefits.
Candice L. OdgersJune 2020
Emotionally supportive parenting can help disadvantaged children and has been shown to have long-term positive impact.
Xutong ZhangApril 2020
Stress in children at ‘the best’ schools can triple risks of anxiety, depression, substance abuse and delinquency.
Suniya S. LutharFebruary 2020
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
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
