Factors preventing infants from achieving milestones: genetic defects, toxic influences during pregnancy, birth complications, premature birth
Professor Sabina PauenSeptember 2018
Articles on children’s sleep written by some of the world’s top child and family researchers.
Recent research is looking at the impact of sleep deprivation and sleep disorders on child learning and behaviour and what factors in families affect a child’s sleep patterns.
The study’s findings suggest that family support programmes, such as parenting programmes, should include ways to help children with sleep.
Child & Family Blog EditorAugust 2017
When mothers believe strongly in responding to a baby waking from sleep and fathers do not, the mother reports more conflict and less trust.
Child & Family Blog EditorMay 2017
Drinking profoundly affects parents’ ability to provide a stable, secure and comfortable home in which sleep is easy.
Child & Family Blog EditorDecember 2016
When parents reported a better relationship in general and better cooperation around parenting, they also reported that their children sleep better.
Child & Family Blog EditorDecember 2016
Unique study, filming in bedroom, finds no evidence that sleeping with infants causes problems, but long-term it can suggest couple relationship problems.
Professor Douglas M. TetiJune 2016
Youth who experienced crowding between the ages of 15 and 18 were less likely to complete high school by the age of 19.
Child & Family Blog EditorMarch 2016
