A long-term study of 292 families linked fathers’ parenting style to their children’s heart health years later. To ...

People always say the first five years of a child’s life are the most important for brain development—and they’re right. How a child is treated and who they’re surrounded by during this time can shape ...

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 ...

Tots under the age of five suffer adverse effects if their moms and dads are distracted by the bings and dings of modern technology, according to a startling new study on the dangers of “technoference ...

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 ...

Much has been said about the detrimental impact of screens on childhood development, but a new study takes that concern to an even younger age. This is as much about what children aren't doing as it ...

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 ...

Western Nevada College celebrated the opening of its second Family Friendly Study Space last month with a ribbon-cutting ...

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 ...