Birth order offers an intuitively appealing explanation for the perplexing differences between us and our siblings. Only problem is, it’s a myth.
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The severing of what many consider an everlasting bond is more common than you’d think.
Completing your child’s homework can protect them from failure – a key part of the learning process.
Gay fathers often operate outside traditional gender roles and provide a model of “conscious parenting” that could offer some important lessons to heterosexual partnerships.
Here are five scientific studies from the last 12 months with simple tips for raising healthy children.
Some might say we’re in the age of the ‘priceless’ child, but The New Yorker certainly doesn’t think so.
A Harvard University researcher last week suggested western women stop breastfeeding after a couple of months to reduce the risk of passing potentially harmful toxins on to infants via breast milk.
The National Health and Medical Research Council call for public submissions on whether sex selection should be allowed without a medical reason recognises changing social attitudes.
Footage of children throwing tantrums when their tablet is taken away can be unsettling. But the fact is technology can be good for their development, if they engage with it positively.
Feeling guilty and out of your depth as a parent? You’re not alone – and there are ways to turn the guilt you’re feeling into positive changes for your family.
Thanks to IVF and donor conception, infertile couples, single women and lesbian couples now have a better chance of starting families. But while common, it’s rarely openly discussed.
We humans think we sit on top of the food chain, but the pediculosis capitis mite – the head louse – sits above us, on the top of our heads.
Fear-based messages from practitioners and awareness campaigns encourage perfectionism and unwarranted personal responsibility for events over which new mums may have little control.
Thanks to IVF and donor conception, infertile couples, single women and lesbian couples now have a better chance at starting families. But how does it all work? Ask the experts here.
By limiting financial support to smaller families, the government is doing its best to stop undesirables from reproducing.
By better supporting at-risk families we can prevent the ‘transmission’ of mental illness from parents to children.
Liberal senator Cory Bernardi, a vocal opponent of same-sex marriage, has said that “the very best thing” for the development of a child is to have a mum and a dad. What does the research say?
Most heterosexual parents who conceive via donor conception never tell their children.
Women are supposed to be happy about motherhood – if they’re not their parenting is open to question. We have seen a ‘Parenting Hate’ backlash against this, but what’s needed most is better social support.
Attachment theory can help in understanding some disruptive class behaviour.
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Professor, Canada Research Chair in Determinants of Child Development, Owerko Centre at the Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute, University of Calgary
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Professor of Child Public Health, Swansea University
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Professor of Midwifery, Associate Dean Research and HDR, Midwifery Discipline Leader, Western Sydney University
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Senior Lecturer in Psychology, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Researcher: Digital Literacy and Digital Wellbeing, Western Sydney University
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Assistant professor, School of Psychology, Scientist, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
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Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Western Sydney University
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Senior Lecturer in Education, Queensland University of Technology
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Associate Professor in Psychology, Deakin University
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Head of School of Education and Professor of Educational Psychology, University of Wollongong
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Lecturer, School of Education, Edith Cowan University
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Senior Lecturer in Education, Edith Cowan University
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The University of Queensland
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