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
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.
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
Significant maternal health changes in response to a small change in actual days of parental leave taken by fathers suggest days at home are used…
Child & Family Blog EditorJuly 2019
When mothers report fathers as being responsive to their needs, exclusive breastfeeding is more likely, the parental relationship is stronger, and early childhood development is…
Child & Family Blog EditorMay 2019
Language development in infancy is influenced differently by well-educated mothers and fathers, even though they read to their young toddlers (1 to 2 years old)…
Child & Family Blog EditorMay 2019
Both the mother’s and father’s mind-mindedness when a baby is four months and 12 months old influence the way the baby manages emotions at 12…
Child & Family Blog EditorApril 2019
Research into the neuroscience and biology of fatherhood has concluded that the idea that women are “primary caregivers”, solely responsible for nurture and care, limits…
Child & Family Blog EditorMarch 2019
