The overall sensitivity of the fathers during play in this sample of 312 families - 119 African American fathers and 193 Latino fathers - was…
Child & Family Blog EditorFebruary 2020
We have invited the world’s leading authorities to write about their conclusions on play.
Play is vital for child development. The impacts of play deprivation illustrate this: isolation, depression, reduced self-control, poor resilience, even criminality.
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
Economic and technological changes mean that children’s learning styles, specific to industrialised societies, may spread worldwide.
Mary GauvainJanuary 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
Men and fathering develop through successful transitions to offer the closeness, engagement and connection needed for positive father-child relationships.
Professor Rob PalkovitzNovember 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 social effects of video games are hard to decipher. In this Norwegian study, more electronic gaming at 10 years old was linked to less…
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
