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
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.
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
The key predictor of antisocial behavior and violent crime (as opposed to nonviolent crime) is poor emotion regulation in early childhood.
Child & Family Blog EditorJuly 2019
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
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
