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Whether it’s a special treat or family traits, children’s risk of being overweight or obese is strongly linked to their grandparents.
Over the past months (and in some cases, years), grandchildren will have grown and changed.
A new study shows how migrant families struggle to get the childcare they need and how an easier visa system would help.
Estimates suggest that every 12 seconds, a child somewhere in the world loses a caregiver to the coronavirus pandemic.
When schools honour and learn from immigrant parents’ knowledge, they support more opportunities to enhance young children’s linguistic, cultural and social experiences.
Shifting baseline syndrome affects everyone. It’s blinding us to the long-term deterioration of wildlife and ecosystems.
Video calls are not simply “screen time” for little kids. They offer an important opportunity for socialisation.
A narrow definition of family can neglect the experiences of many people and can impact policy and programs. It’s time to expand our ideas of what family means.
The world’s first study of how grandmothers experience the death of their stillborn grandchild exposes a unique kind of grief. But there are many ways we can support them.
What was once imagined as a time of exploration and reinvention has become marked by financial and emotional strain.
Research suggests that parents and babies communicate in remarkably similar ways despite striking variation in cultural practices.
In many households, Christmas means visits from relatives eager to smother kids with kisses. But respectful parenting means giving the kids fair warning so they can decide whether that’s ok.
Family is far more important for developing engagement of young people in civil society than previously thought.
Over the past 20 years, the number of American households that have grandparents, their kids and their grandkids living under the same roof has nearly doubled.
New research shows that parenting stress is lowest if grandparents do some of the care - as opposed to more formal arrangements.
New research shows childhood in Europe lasts on average until age 25, while old age starts at 60.
Apps which encourage children to develop language, literacy, numeracy and critical thinking skills through play are excellent gifts this Christmas.
New research shows just how key grandparents are to childcare.
New research shows that, too often, grandparents who are primary carers are being locked out of decisions about their grandchildren’s welfare.
Top contributors
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Principal Research Fellow, University of Sydney
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Dean, Perimeter College & Professor, Social Work, Georgia State University
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Associate Dean and Chief Academic Officer for Nursing and Director, Project Healthy Grandparents, Byrdine F. Lewis College of Nursing and Health Professions, Georgia State University
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ARC Research Fellow and Lecturer in Sociology, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor, College of Arts, Society & Education, James Cook University
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Senior Lecturer in Applied Ethics & CyberSecurity, Griffith University
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Senior Lecturer in the School of Psychology, University of Adelaide
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Associate Professor Political Economy and Deputy Director, The Gender Equality in Working Life Research Initiative, University of Sydney
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Reader in Social Policy, University of Sheffield
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Lecturer, University of Southern Queensland
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Professor of Work and Organisation, Brunel University London
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Professor of Anthropology, Durham University
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ESRC Research Fellow, Hadley Centre for Adoption and Foster Care Studies, School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol
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Ph.D. Candidate in Communication Studies, Louisiana State University
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Therese O'Sullivan is a Friend of The Conversation.
Associate Professor, Edith Cowan University
