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Toddlers Are Happier While Giving Away then Receiving: Study
By Drishya Nair | Jul 01, 2012 05:24 PM EDTIt is a part of human nature to feel good about helping others, and this quality develops in children at an age as young as 2 years, says a research.
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Death of a Child Could Increase Mother's Risk of Death: Study
By Drishya Nair | Jun 29, 2012 09:16 AM EDTGenerally, after losing a child, bereaved parents get into a state of numbness and at times even denial. It could be accompanied by feelings of extreme anger, guilt, or fear.
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Study Suggests Poor Mothers Favor Daughters
By Staff Reporter | Jun 21, 2012 09:37 PM EDTEAST LANSING, Mich. - Poor mothers will invest more resources in daughters, who stand a greater chance of increasing their status through marriage than do sons, suggests a study in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology.
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Science of Parenting, The Link Between Sexism and Racism, Death and The Supernatural, and More
By Staff Reporter | Jun 19, 2012 08:33 PM EDTStory leads this month from new articles on parenting by the norm, the link between sexism and racism, death and the supernatural, how brands shape identity and more...
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Child Welfare Investigation Predicts Mental Health Problems in Young Children
By Staff Reporter | Jun 19, 2012 08:31 PM EDTWashington D.C., June 19, 2012 - A study published in the June 2012 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry found that young children who have been investigated for maltreatment by child welfare agencies have a higher prevalence of mental health problems and that very few receive treatment for those problems.
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Blogging Relieves Stress on New Mothers
By Staff Reporter | Jun 19, 2012 08:29 PM EDTNew mothers who read and write blogs may feel less alone than mothers who do not participate in a blogging community, according to family studies researchers.
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Violent Fights Between Parents Can Deeply Affect Kids Emotionally: Study
By Denise Baker | Jun 16, 2012 05:36 PM EDTA child is more likely to grow up as an emotionally insecure individual if his/her parents have had harsh and frequent fights during kindergarten years, according to a study. A child like that struggles with depression, anxiety and behavior issues by 7th grade, say the study authors. ...
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Persistence Is Learned from Fathers, Study Shows
By Staff Reporter | Jun 15, 2012 07:32 PM EDTWhen the going gets tough, the tough ought to thank their fathers.
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Fathers Influence Children's Personality More Than Mothers Do
By Denise Baker | Jun 13, 2012 09:02 PM EDTFather's love is as important for a child as is mother's love, a new study claims. ...
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Are Feminism and Attachment Parenting Practices Compatible?
By Staff Reporter | Jun 11, 2012 10:01 PM EDTWhat kind of mothers do feminists make? According to a new study by Miriam Liss and Mindy Erchull, from the University of Mary Washington in the US, feminist mothers endorse the importance of the time-intensive, hands-on parenting practices associated with attachment parenting - a child-centric parenting technique in which children's needs are ideally met on the child's schedule rather than the parent's. Their work is published online in Springer's journal Sex Roles.
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Children May Start Self Injuring at Just Age Seven: Study
By Denise Baker | Jun 11, 2012 09:36 PM EDTTeenagers are known to hurt themselves physically when they need to vent out their frustrations or negative emotions. But children as young as third-graders are doing the same, says a new study. ...
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Studies Challenge Established Views about Development of Children Raised by Gay or Lesbian Parents
By Staff Reporter | Jun 11, 2012 08:58 PM EDTOxford, June 10, 2012 - Despite considerable research showing that children of same-sex parents fare just as well as children with heterosexual parents, two papers - a review of existing studies and a new study - published today in Elsevier's Social Science Research, find insufficient data to draw any definitive conclusions.
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Inside a Child’s Mind — Research Findings from Psychological Science
By Staff Reporter | Jun 07, 2012 05:54 PM EDTDevelopmental psychology researchers have long known that children aren't simply mini-adults - their minds and brains work in fundamentally different ways. Exploring those differences can help us understand how kids think and behave and can provide insights into how the mind and brain develop and change over time. Here is some of the latest research involving children from Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.
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Anxiety Disorders in Children Are Not Detected in Due Time
By Staff Reporter | Jun 02, 2012 11:09 AM EDTANXIETY Only few children suffering from anxiety disorders undergo treatment. Researchers at the University of Copenhagen have looked into how many children who suffer from the most common yet treatable anxiety disorders that are actually diagnosed in the psychiatric system in Denmark. According to the researchers, the number is surprisingly low compared to other western countries, indicating that anxiety disorders in children and youth are disregarded in Denmark.
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Smoking During Pregnancy Linked to Severe Asthma in Teen Years
By Staff Reporter | May 31, 2012 11:03 PM EDTAfrican-American and Latino children whose mothers smoked during pregnancy are more likely to suffer from acute asthma symptoms in their teens than asthma sufferers whose mothers did not smoke, according to a new study led by a research team at UCSF.
