It is common for parents to influence mate choice — from arranged marriages to more subtle forms of persuasion — but they often disagree with their children about what makes a suitable partner. A new study has found an evolutionary explanation for why some parents try to control who their ...
Date Posted: September 20, 2013
Categories: Parenting, Relationships & Marriage
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Most parents yell at their kids at some point. It often feels like the last option for getting children to pay attention and shape up.
But harsh verbal discipline may backfire. Teenagers act worse if they're yelled at, a study finds.
Sep 18
Categories: Parenting, Teenage Issues
GOParents who yell at their adolescent children for misbehaving can cause some of the same problems as hitting them would, including increased risk of depression and aggressive behavior, according to a new study.
A good, warm relationship with Mom ...
Sep 10
Categories: Child Development, Parenting
GOA new study by psychology researchers suggests that whether parents are gay, lesbian or straight, how well they work together as a couple and support each other in parenting is linked to fewer behavior problems among their adopted children and is ...
Jul 15
Categories: LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender) Issues, Parenting
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Divorce has a bigger impact on child-parent relationships if it occurs in the first few years of the child's life, according to new research. Those who experience parental divorce early in their childhood tend to have more insecure relationships ...
Jul 1
Categories: Child and/or Adolescent Issues, Child Development, Divorce / Divorce ...
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For decades, psychologists and other researchers assumed that the mother-child bond was the most important one in a kid's life. They focused on studying those relationships, and however a child turned out, mom often got the credit — or ...
Jun 22
Categories: Child Development, Parenting
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When thinking about parents and children, most people — including psychological researchers — tend to focus on the characteristics and importance of the mother-child bond. However, in honor of Father’s Day, I think it’s about time to focus a ...
Jun 17
Categories: Parenting
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If policy-makers want to do something about falling birth rates, they may want to take a look at improving how people are treated at work when they step outside of traditional family roles at home.
New studies show that middle-class men who take ...
Jun 14
Categories: Parenting
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As Father's Day draws near, psychologist Jeff Cookston says dads should ask their children for a little more feedback than they might get with the yearly greeting card.
Just being a good parent may not be good enough, said Cookston, professor of ...
Jun 7
Categories: Parenting
GOSometimes kids just don't listen! But yelling rarely works. So Doctor G has a few things to try before (or after) the screaming ...
Jun 5
Categories: Child and/or Adolescent Issues, Child Development, Parenting
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Many parents' reasons for using controlled crying can be summed up in one word: work. Parents who want "routines" are keen on controlled crying, says Gina Ford, a famous British advocate of the system, and she comments that babies who have been ...
May 9
Categories: Child Development, Parenting
GOMothers who have experienced childhood abuse, neglect or other traumatic experiences show an unwillingness to talk with their children about the child’s emotional experiences, a new study from the University of Notre Dame shows.
May 7
Categories: Child Development, Parenting, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) / ...
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Children who are exposed to negative parenting – including abuse, neglect but also overprotection – are more likely to experience childhood bullying by their peers, according to a meta-analysis of 70 studies of more than 200,000 children.
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Apr 27
Categories: Bullying, Parenting
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Parents know that crying babies usually calm down when they are picked up and carried, but why is that? In a study published today, researchers from the RIKEN Brain Science Institute show that human babies and mouse pups alike automatically and ...
Apr 22
Categories: Parenting
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Being exposed to arguments between parents is associated with the way babies' brains process emotional tone of voice, according to a new study to be published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.
The ...
Mar 26
Categories: Child Development, Parenting
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Parents act differently with different children—for example, being more positive with one child and more negative with another. A new longitudinal study has found that this behavior negatively affects not only the child who receives more negative ...
Feb 18
Categories: Child Development, Parenting
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