Overbearing parents can harm toddlers’ capacities to manage their feelings and actions, opening pathways to later difficulties with school and friends.
Professor Lilly ShanahanMay 2019
A good parent-child relationship is vital for the development of children. Researchers are looking at the impact of different factors on the parent-child relationship: for example, long working hours, family separation, poverty and child abuse. Researchers are also looking at how the parent and child relationship develops in different family formations.
The Global Fatherhood Charter was drafted in consultation with 21 leading child development researchers across the world in 2019, to help all those supporting fatherhood…
Professor Michael E. LambMay 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
Support conversational capacities among parents on low incomes for language development in children that can cut poverty’s impact.
Jack O'SullivanFebruary 2019
The demise of corporal punishment is slow because of lack of clarity about effectiveness of different forms of child discipline.
Professor George W. HoldenFebruary 2019
A family systems approach to parental alienation is recommended, involving victims and perpetrator.
Child & Family Blog EditorFebruary 2019
Coping with family conflict and adversity creates major challenges for mothers and fathers.
Jack O'SullivanJanuary 2019
