According to a new book, We Are Family, many want schools to challenge prejudice against new family forms and want parents to provide more information about…
Susan GolombokOctober 2020
Articles related to mothers and motherhood from some of the world’s top child and family researchers.
Research on mothers, mothering and motherhood typically explores the impact of mothers’ behaviours on their children, and factors that affect mothers and the quality of their parenting. Motherhood is one of the most established and developed areas of research into parents.
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 coparenting study contributes to our growing understanding of how complex family systems operate, with different relationships influencing each other.
Child & Family Blog EditorFebruary 2020
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
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
Cognitive development at adolescence predicted by early mother-child and caregiver-child interactions.
Deborah Lowe VandellNovember 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
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
