People who were children when their parents were divorced showed lower levels of oxytocin - the so-called "love hormone" - when they were adults than those whose parents remained married, according to a study led by Baylor University. That lower level may play a role in having trouble forming ...
Date Posted: September 14, 2020
Categories: Child Development, Family Problems
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What happens if you grow up with a grandparent living in your home? Does the prolonged contact counter prejudices, biases and stereotypes of the elderly? Or might it instead encourage negative perceptions of older people as being slow, angry or ...
Jul 14
Categories: Family Problems
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This article explores the different reasons family estrangement can occur and how a child copes with their decision to distant themselves from their family.
Oct 26
Categories: Adjusting to Change / Life Transitions, Child and/or Adolescent ...
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For many busy families, getting everyone to sit down at the table together for dinner can seem like an impossible task. However, family dinners can have a substantial impact on positive communication and increase bonds between family members of all ...
Jan 12
Categories: Family Problems
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Siblings are frequently found fighting over the best toy, the favorite toy, or the last cookie. But at first glance, sibling rivalries do not make sense from an evolutionary perspective - they share similar genes, so they should be inclined only to ...
Oct 14
Categories: Child Development, Family Problems, Parenting
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How to reset your family system to address lingering hard feelings.
Jun 23
Categories: Aggression & Violence, Blended Family Issues, Family Problems
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How to help your children have as many positive interactions as you can.
Jun 9
Categories: Family Problems, Relationships & Marriage
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Family hurt seems more painful to us than hurt caused by our friends. Our instincts have been proven right, because family hurt is actually more painful.
Apr 4
Categories: Family Problems
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Psychologists have found that children and adolescents with major depression or subthreshold forms of bipolar disorder - and who had at least one first-degree relative with bipolar disorder - responded better to a 12-session family-focused treatment ...
Dec 28
Categories: Bipolar, Child and/or Adolescent Issues, Family Problems, Mood Swings ...
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Full-blown empty-nest syndrome - debilitating grief and loss of purpose - is mercifully rare, but that doesn't mean the transition isn't still painful and complicated, as well as exciting and discombobulating. How do parents acknowledge the past and ...
Nov 19
Categories: Family Problems, Parenting
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Siblings bear majority of the responsibility for the spread of problem behaviors. Identifying the exact nature of that influence has proven difficult, because behavior problems in siblings can also be traced to friends, shared genetics and shared ...
Nov 17
Categories: Child and/or Adolescent Issues, Family Problems
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For millions of parents who raise children in two homes, tricky problems and emotional volatility often greatly complicates their negotiations. The pain of lost love can propel former partners to act impulsively out of hurt, anger or spite. The fear ...
Oct 22
Categories: Child and/or Adolescent Issues, Divorce / Divorce Adjustment, Family ...
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Pregnant women dissatisfied in their relationship have an increased risk of infectious diseases. This also affects their children.
Oct 19
Categories: Child Development, Family Problems
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Family fun often means new activities and destinations but a new study suggests leisure time spent at home in familiar pastimes may be a better route to happiness.
Oct 19
Categories: Family Problems, Happiness
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Children respond better to learning setbacks when they believe that ability and intelligence are malleable – that is, when they have what psychologists call a "growth mindset" rather than a "fixed mindset". This immediately raises the question of ...
Jun 13
Categories: Family Problems, Learning Difficulties
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Recently, a large Swedish study showed that grades may decline, too, when a parent is depressed.
Apr 8
Categories: Depression, Family Problems, Parenting
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