It’s often suggested that children with same-sex parents have poorer outcomes because they’re missing a parent of a particular sex. But research my colleagues and I published in the journal BMC Public…
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Australian children have been graded badly for overall physical activity levels in a report card released by the University…
Due to Australia’s small population and high concentration of few media voices, public broadcasters play a pivotal role in shaping the media ecosystem and cultural landscape. With the ABC and SBS under…
It was reported last week that spending on youth services is down by one third, with some budgets cut by 78%. The cuts to youth service budgets have been called “disproportionate” by Tim Loughton, the…
The recent debate in the House of Commons on the cost of going away during the school holidays has reignited a long-running concern about price banding in the tourism industry and the educational impact…
Pre-kindergarten programs benefit children’s skills in core learning areas, new research suggests. A research team led by…
Using hand gestures may help children learn mathematics better, according to a recent study. Researchers, led by Miriam A…
Children may understand complex scientific concepts from a significantly younger age that first thought, new research suggests…
Atypical development in siblings of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) can be detected as early as 12 months of…
Eating higher amounts of omega-3 DHA may give you a better night’s sleep, according to new research. Some 362 children took…
Media products that claim to teach babies to read don’t work, new research by New York University shows. The study led by…
Breastfed babies are more intelligent but not because of breastfeeding alone but because of additional parenting skills…
For many parents who caved into the pressure and splashed out on a new tablet computer for their children this Christmas, the not inconsiderable initial purchase bill may almost be a distant memory. Yet…
Families where mothers earn as much as or more than fathers are no more likely to split up than those where mothers earn less, according to new research published today. In fact, the evidence shows that…
Health professionals and parents appear to disagree about what determines children’s food preferences. While the former often take the view that healthy foods and the absence of “junk food” in the home…
In spite of a major drive to develop targeted drugs to “personalise” cancer treatments, children with cancer still have to put up with drugs that have remained largely unchanged for decades. Currently…
Proposals to allow schools to start looking after two-year-olds go to the heart of a long-standing tension in education policy: is early childhood provision about childcare for working parents or is it…
Psychologists have found that memories of childhood experiences usually fade at the age of seven. This is often referred…
The mass media invented the teenager during the 1950s and 60s – and thus emerged a whole new audience for popular culture. What we’re seeing now is the recognition of children as an ever more important…
Pop culture parenting styles like “Helicopter” and “Snowplow” have received a lot of recent media attention. Such coverage tends to overlook the findings of decades of parenting research. Much of this…
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