Emotionally supportive parenting can help disadvantaged children and has been shown to have long-term positive impact.
Xutong ZhangApril 2020
Articles relating to child and family stress by some of the world’s top child and family researchers.
Researchers are looking at the factors that lead to parent and child stress, for example, family instability, poverty, using corporal punishment on children. What are the impacts of stress on families and on the child, for example, the child’s mental health? How can minority and immigrant families suffering stress be supported?
Study has found that mothers prone to anxiety, stress, guilt and frustration are more likely to be harsh parents if the father is not supportive.
Child & Family Blog EditorMarch 2020
Stress in children at ‘the best’ schools can triple risks of anxiety, depression, substance abuse and delinquency.
Suniya S. Luthar Ph.D.February 2020
Gender nonconforming youth are more likely to experience rejection and verbal, physical and sexual abuse from both parents and peers.
Child & Family Blog EditorFebruary 2020
According to the World Health Organisation, children will suffer 80% of the illnesses, injuries and deaths attributable to climate change.
Child & Family Blog EditorOctober 2019
But when the distress of the bisexual parents was controlled for, there was no residual difference between the children of these and other parents, both…
Child & Family Blog EditorOctober 2019
Brain development in children is influenced by good experiences, counteracting early trauma’s impacts, suggests neuroscience.
Professor Seth PollakSeptember 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
