We’ve known for years that childhood trauma can have lifelong effects on our health. It’s time for medicine and public health to start addressing the problem head-on.
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Parents need to focus on context and consistency.
People in some of the most unequal countries in the world think theirs is the paradigm of meritocracy. Can the data help explain this phenomenon?
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…
Principales colaboradores
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Associate Professor, Childhood and Youth Studies, Carleton University
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Associate Professor and Principal Research Fellow at the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University
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Bennett Chair of Autism, Telethon Kids Institute, The University of Western Australia
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Associate Professor, Monash University
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Professor of Sexual Politics, The University of Melbourne
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Inaugural Roberta Holmes Professor, La Trobe University
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Associate professor, Monash University
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Convenor Community Planning and Development, La Trobe University
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Adjunct Senior Research Fellow in Early Childhood Development, The 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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Adjunct professor, La Trobe University
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Centre for Community Child Health
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Lecturer in Psychology, University of Leeds
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Honorary Associate, School of Geosciences, University of Sydney
