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People have been fretting about children getting too little sleep for decades.
As retirement looms for elite sportspeople, there is a need to prepare for the transition to post-sport life. But there are also important things to consider for transition long before this.
Poor childhood conditions, such as exposure to poverty and stunting, are associated with long-term disadvantages to health, education, social adjustment and earnings.
The people at risk are the ones who need to be listened to.
They allow us to explore buried emotions.
That deafening din was millions of years in the making.
To combat childhood obesity, we need to start from day one.
Dismissing children's books as childish only means that adult readers miss out on a world of fantastic literature.
The way it's portrayed in the media you'd think it was certain that the internet made children unhappy. The evidence says otherwise.
There is no convincing evidence that same-sex relationships are less stable than heterosexual relationships, nor that they have a negative impact on the children raised within them.
Enough hand-wringing over children not getting out more.
One historian is plumbing the oft-discarded works of kids – from shipwreck tales to diary entries – to augment our understanding of U.S. history.
When children under 15 end up homeless it's likely to have a significant economic and social cost throughout their life.
Not all children move through the same range of processes when they compose music – but those processes, in themselves, nurture important human qualities.
How we get along as siblings is a deeply personal issue and profoundly effects our lives as individuals. It’s an issue that crosses cultures and economies, levels of class and fame.
A long-term trend of declining creativity test scores has renewed interest in mechanisms to stimulate and foster the development of creativity – at home, in schools, universities and workplaces. At the…
We hear so much these days about fearful parents who “bubble-wrap” their children. So-called “helicopter parents” try to protect their children from life’s dangers and, in the process, prevent them taking…
The practice of reproductive surrogacy is in the news in Australia because of the story of a Thai child, Gammy, a twin who was apparently abandoned by the buyers because he was sick. They took his healthy…
The recent death of Shirley Temple at the age of 85 appears to buck the trend for the tragic child star. In marked contrast to the likes of Judy Garland and Michael Jackson, Temple made the transition…
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Emeritus Professor, National Centre for Epidemiology & Population Health, Australian National University
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Murdoch University
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Senior Research Fellow at the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University
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Associate professor, Monash University
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Senior Lecturer Social Work, Monash University
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Professor of Sexual Politics, University of Melbourne
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Inaugural Roberta Holmes Professor, La Trobe University
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Bennett Chair of Autism, Telethon Kids Institute, Univeristy of Western Australia, University of Western Australia
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Lecturer, Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe University
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Adjunct Research Fellow in Early Childhood Development, University of Western Australia
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Reader, Department for Health, University of Bath
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Professor, Australian National University
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Associate, Melbourne Sustainable Societies Institute, University of Melbourne; Sessional Lecturer, School of Public Health and Human Biosciences, La Trobe University
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Centre for Community Child Health
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Professor of Social Sciences, UNSW
