How you tell the story of a momentous event can help you make sense of what happened. Research finds new moms’ and dads’ narratives around childbirth held clues about their transition to parenthood.
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There are four signs of parental burnout and four positive things parents can do to take care of themselves as well as their kids.
The best way to manage anger is to try to reduce the likelihood that these situations will arise. But even so, having a plan for what can you do when anger strikes is important.
Dutch parents worked more and had less leisure time – particularly if they were women.
Family stress can go through the roof when managing social isolation or pandemic anxiety. A researcher of parent-child relationships offers practical tips to make time together more enjoyable.
A linguist explains the physical technicalities and sociological meanings of creaky voice’ – a sound found in diverse gender and age groups, yet often associated particularly with younger women.
New research shows that parenting stress is lowest if grandparents do some of the care - as opposed to more formal arrangements.
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ARC Senior Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Sociology, The University of Melbourne
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Director, Parenting and Family Support Centre, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Psychology, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Doctoral Candidate in Clinical Psychology, University of Oregon
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Professor of Sociology and Social Policy, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Comparative Social Policy in relation to Social Inequalities, Utrecht University
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PhD Candidate, Department of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, York University, Canada
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Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Manitoba
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Assistant professor, School of Economics, Utrecht University
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Honorary Principal Fellow, School of Psychology, The University of Queensland
