Children living in the custody of single fathers are less likely to have access to affordable health care and visit the doctor less often compared to children living in families with a single mother or both parents.
University of Maryland professor Bonnie Braun, newly elected president of the American Association of Family & Consumer Sciences, discusses family issues she thinks will be important in the coming decade and thoughts about policies that will be needed to help families.
Psychology professor Brian D'Onofrio studies the children of twins to examine the role genetics play in the increased risk children of divorced parents face in seeing their own marriages end in divorce. He found that the divorce, not shared genetic risks or problems such as parental subtance abuse, was key to the higher rates of divorce experienced by the offspring of divorced couples.
A new study claims couples therapy a profitable choice. Government would receive a return of up to $1.85 for every $1 spent on marital therapy, health insurance companies up to $1.20, say researchers.
Many otherwise healthy children and adolescents have low vitamin D levels, which may put them at risk for bone diseases such as rickets. African American children, children above age nine and with low dietary vitamin D intake were the most likely to have low levels of vitamin D in their blood, according to researchers from The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
Every kid knows that moms have "eyes in the back of their heads." We are adept at fixing our gaze on one object while independently directing attention to others. Salk Institute neurobiologists are beginning to tease apart the complex brain networks that enable humans and other higher mammals to achieve this feat.
Research reveals: When grandparents take care of their grandchildren when they are young "“ the grandchildren take care of their grandparents as they age.
Frazzled parents can have a healthy dinner on the table 20 minutes after they walk through the door by following the advice of a University of Arkansas dietitian.
Parents who think their teens' online conversations with their peers are innocent may want to reconsider. A new Caron Treatment Centers qualitative study conducted by Nielsen Buzzmetrics found that 1 in 10 messages analyzed involved teens seeking advice from their peers on how to take illicit drugs "safely" and without getting caught.
Research at the University of Maryland continues to show just how important dads are to their children. No matter the circumstance, an involved dad makes a difference in the development of his children.
PG-13 films have lots of "happy violence," say UCLA researchers. Borrowing from the late communications theorist George Gerbner, happy violence is that which is "cool, swift and painless." PG-13 films don't consider the consequences of violent acts, such as injury, death and the shattered lives of the people involved.
Planning for pregnancy can help your baby get the best possible start in life. Here are eight valuable tips from Barbara Coulter-Smith, D.O., an obstetrician/gynecologist on the medical staff at Baylor Regional Medical Center at Grapevine.
New research from U-M C.S. Mott Children's Hospital may leave some parents wondering how well they know their child's pediatrician. The study found that as many as 17 percent of physicians who claim to be pediatricians on state licensure files have never been board certified as a pediatrician by the ABP.
A child who is beginning to walk will show a decreased interest in play. When a child begins to walk, the way in which he experiences his environment changes. This change may be manifested in the way he plays. Study results revealed a tendency to a decrease in the child's level of persistence, concentration and attentiveness at the onset of walking in comparison to the pre-walking stage.
Experts available to comment on birth of baby to Mary Cheney, lesbian daughter of Vice President Dick Cheney. Background on research in gay/lesbian parenting, mental health of children raised by same-sex parents available to media from nationwide cadre of experts affiliated with Rockway Institute at Alliant International University.
If you are looking for a way to encourage your children eat their fruits and vegetables, search no further than your backyard, suggests new Saint Louis University research.
Forty percent of 3-month-old infants are regularly watching TV, DVDs or videos and that number jumps to 90 percent by age two, according to University of Washington and Seattle Children's Hospital Research Institute researchers.
Couples with infants who are particularly fussy or difficult typically do just fine as parents "“ as long as they have a strong marital relationship. A new study found that a couple's relationship with each other was key in determining how they reacted as parents when faced with a temperamental baby.
Families desperately need support and direction after a child attempts suicide.
Little children never cease to amaze. University of Washington researchers have found that 18-month-old toddlers engage in what they call "emotional eavesdropping" by listening and watching emotional reactions directed by one adult to another and then using this emotional information to shape their own behavior.
New research suggests that Americans are more likely to socially reject children with mental illness than they are those with physical illnesses such as asthma.
A survey of orphans, children of divorced parents and children of intact families reveals a definitive connection between the quality of the father-child relationship and interpersonal relationships later in life.
Almost a third of parents say they don't think their methods of disciplining children are working very well, and many of those report using the same discipline their own parents used.
A new report urges parents and children's doctors to change their thinking about homesickness among children, to see it as a nearly universal but highly preventable and treatable phenomenon "” rather than an unavoidable part of childhood.
A survey of 586 step-children by a communication studies researcher has identified, for the first time, five types of stepfamilies that differ in how they communicate and in the mental health of the children.
Parents, take note: longstanding theory contends that low self-control is more strongly correlated with crime than any other known factor. Now, a study offers strong empirical evidence that supports -- and challenges -- the "stability thesis," an idea that suggests parents have just 10 years or less to affect lasting patterns of self-control (e.g. the ability to delay gratification and thoughtfully consider the consequences of actions) in their child.
While parents might not have control over brains and looks, a professor at Washington University in St. Louis finds there are three factors that impact creativity for firstborn children: the number of siblings he or she has; having siblings of the opposite sex; and having siblings close in age.
New fathers don't receive a how-to manual when they hold their little bundle of joy for the first time. A new book titled, "Why Fathers Count: The Importance of Fathers and Their Involvement With Children," provides information and tips for fathers and those who support them at all stages of parenting "” from new fathers to grandfathers.
Parents who engage in the age-old tradition of picture-book reading are not only encouraging early reading development in their children but are also teaching their toddlers about the world around them.
In families with two working parents, fathers had greater impact than mothers on their children's language development between ages 2 and 3, according to a study by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Frank Porter Graham (FPG) Child Development Institute and UNC's School of Education.
An aging mother needs assistance from her adult child while an ill stepfather also needs help. A University of Missouri-Columbia researcher said that most Americans do not think the obligation for the child to help is the same in both scenarios.
HBO's ENTOURAGE Actress Debi Mazar leads a national campaign to help "Sleepless Moms" get rest.
Dr. Kristy Hagar, a child psychologist at Children's Medical Center Dallas, explains that resilience is not acquired from a pill or a class, but rather is taught and nurtured by parents. Dr. Hagar offers tips for nurturing resiliency in kids.
Genetic factors may be at play when it comes to the link between the personality trait of neuroticism and vulnerability for depression, according to a new study by Virginia Commonwealth University researchers.
Chris Sherwood, a research scientist in the Center for Applied Biomechanics at the University of Virginia, is studying various child safety restraints (child car seats) and working to identify the factors that affect injury rates of children involved in car crashes. Preliminary findings show that leaving children in rear-facing seats until the age of 4 could lower injury rates by more than 50 percent. (VIDEO EMBEDDED)
The Council on Contemporary Families presents "Who Cares?: Dilemmas of Work and Family in the 21st Century," an Oct. 20 symposium at the University of Illinois at Chicago that brings together national experts on work-life issues and journalists who cover family issues.
In a national survey of registered nurses, half reported chronic interference of work with their home lives, such as being unable to spend the time they wanted with their families, according to researchers from Wake Forest University School of Medicine and colleagues.
Children who are left home alone, physically neglected, physically assaulted or sexually abused are more likely to smoke cigarettes or marijuana, drink alcohol, abuse inhalants and be depressed or violent when they reach adolescence, according to a study by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health.
Easy access to drugs and alcohol and social pressures to conform complicate recovery for teens and young adults.
Two new AAP books help parents raise children and teens to overcome adversity, stress, and succeed.
Children who were exposed to violence in the home engaged in higher levels of physical bullying than youngsters who were not witnesses to such behavior, according to a new University of Washington and Indiana University study.
Teenagers who share their parent's understanding of parent-decreed driving rules are less likely to take risks behind the wheel, according to a new study from researchers at the University of Maryland.
Veteran child development professionals at the University of Arkansas offer four keys to choosing good child care.
Although cohabitors are not conventional in that they live together without being married, they tend to be traditional when it comes to paid work and domestic labor as well as men being the initiators in dating and living together, Cornell University sociologist finds.
While research on the school-to-work transition typically examines employment stability, income, and other indicators of attainment, a new sociological study focuses on youths' own assessments of whether their jobs constitute "careers."
Depressed singles receive greater psychological benefits from getting married than those who are not depressed, new research shows. While many studies have shown that marriage helps boost well-being, most studies have looked at a general, average population and don't examine whether some people were helped more by marriage than others.
A study exploring smoking, heavy drinking and marijuana use across three generations indicates that the children of a parent who use any of these substances are more likely to smoke, binge drink or use marijuana in adolescence and adulthood.
Approximately 2,000 children are treated in United States hospital emergency rooms annually for escalator-related injuries. According to a study published in the August issue of Pediatrics, an estimated 26,000 U.S. children 19 years of age and younger were treated in a hospital emergency department for an escalator-related injury in 1990-2002.
More than 20,000 children were treated in United States hospital emergency departments in 2005 for shopping cart-related injuries. According to a study published in the August issue of Pediatrics and conducted by Gary Smith, MD, DrPH, it was found that an in-store safety intervention successfully increased the use of child safety-restraints in shopping carts.
According to the AANS, the most recent statistics indicate that there were an estimated 64,500 bicycling-related head injuries treated in United States hospital emergency rooms in 2005. Nearly 37,000 of these injuries were to children age 14 and younger. Overall, sports and recreational activities contribute to about 21 percent of all traumatic brain injuries among American children and adolescents.
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