Feature Channels: Family and Parenting

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Professor Bahira Trask specializes in globalization, diversity, family and personal relations, and work-life issues.

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If your child’s preschool or child care were affected by a tornado, fire or violent situation, would you know the center’s emergency plan to keep the children as safe as possible?

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A new University of Iowa study finds conversations parents have with their children after a serious injury help young people internalize safety values, a process similar to how a child develops a conscience.

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Ignoring children’s emotional outbursts is a strategy commonly employed by parents with a wide range of psychological know-how, drawing on their intuition, family tradition, modeling, or simple desperation. Despite its widespread use, parental ignoring has previously received little attention or assessment by child development professionals.

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Baylor researchers have four tips to help parents and educators explain the presidential election to children in fun, engaging and non-partisan ways.

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Parents who are anxious and emotional can impact their children's violent video game play, according to new research from Iowa State University. Warm and restrictive parents successfully limited children’s play. However, anxious parents had the opposite effect.

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The Latino culture, more than others, places a high value on the family unit; yet, little research has examined the dynamics of Latino family relationships and how those dynamics affect children’s development. Now, a University of Missouri researcher found sibling relationship quality in adolescence affects Mexican-origin adolescents’ and young adults’ later depressive symptoms and their involvement in risky behaviors, including those with sexual risk.

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Mothers who are pregnant or have young children would be expected to be more concerned about protecting their offspring from environmental risks that are reported most in the news, but a new study raises doubts about that conventional wisdom.

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Dr. Jenna Rowen discusses co-parenting after a divorce, and offers tips for keeping the child forefront in the process.

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Involving parents in the treatment of adolescents with bulimia nervosa is more effective than treating the patient individually, according to a study led by UCSF and Stanford researchers.

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An elevated infant death rate may be linked to mourning experienced by women in the months before they become pregnant, reports a study in Psychosomatic Medicine: Journal of Biobehavioral Medicine, the official journal of the American Psychosomatic Society. The journal is published by Wolters Kluwer.

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Single grandparents raising grandchildren are more vulnerable to poor physical and mental health than are single parents, according to a study recently published in current gerontology and geriatrics research.

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For parents of all children — and especially those with learning and behavioral challenges — homework can be quite stressful. There are, however, many things parents can do to make the “dreaded homework hour” less difficult for all involved.

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Schools placed on probation due to sub-par test scores spurs transfer patterns linked to household income, a study by New York University sociologists finds.

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Twin girls born joined at the pelvic and hip region are recovering after separation surgery Thursday, Sept. 3, at Nationwide Children’s Hospital.

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If you are in a special relationship with another person, thank grandma – not just yours, but all grandmothers since humans evolved.

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Dean Headley, Airline Quality Rating co-author from Wichita State University, will announce this year's holiday forecast for air travelers at 11 a.m. EDT Thursday, Sept. 10. Find out how you can participate in the virtual news conference.

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A new study of more than 300 women suggests that exposure to certain phthalates — substances commonly used in food packaging, personal-care and other everyday products — could be associated with miscarriage, mostly between 5 and 13 weeks of pregnancy.

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The American Heart Association wants families to feel they can, and are fully equipped to, make healthy choices in the home and within their everyday activities – without throwing schedules completely off or leaving wallets empty.