After receiving evidence-based early interventions, roughly two-thirds of non-speaking kids with autism speak single words, ...

Research shows helping your kids grow up to be happy, fulfilled, and independent is relatively straightforward.

A new Child Development study from researchers at the University of Virginia provides the first long-term, longitudinal evidence for the transmission of empathic care across three generations: from ...

How a new father behaves toward his baby can change family dynamics in a way that affects the child's heart and metabolic ...

Research at Karlstad University shows that exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals and adverse life events during ...

Dr. Kazuko Behrens, Professor and Coordinator of Psychology at SUNY Polytechnic Institute, has published two major ...

Facing budget cuts, the University System of New Hampshire (USNH) is considering outsourcing childcare services at its three campuses. Parents are concerned about potential privatization leading to ...

A programme ‘Scaling Up of Playful Parenting in Bhutan’ (SCPPB) highlights the significant impact of playful parenting on children’s emotional, social, and cognitive development. and Druk and role ...

The average American child spends 3.6 hours staring at a computer, television, tablet, or smartphone daily -- an amount of screen time associated with inferior cognitive development and academic ...

A divorce is seldom easy—not for the couple that divorces, but also not for their children (if they have any). However, past psychological research on how divorce affects children’s development was ...