Parenting styles have become a major focus in child development research, especially as we learn more about their lasting ...

• Parents of children with developmental delay and behavioral problems face many obstacles to care, including financial challenges, shortages of mental health clinicians, fear of stigma, ...

A Rutgers Health-led study finds that certain parental techniques like monitoring child activity significantly offset the ...

Parents may have more influence than they realize when it comes to shaping their children's behavior, especially for those at ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - If some children seem like they were born to be bad, new research suggests it may be true. Sign up here. In a study of adult twins and their children, researchers found ...

DURHAM, N.C., May 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Prenatal exposure to tobacco, alcohol, and illegal drugs may increase a child's risk of displaying certain problem behaviors in later childhood, according to ...

Children who go to to bed at irregular hours are more likely to have behavioral problems, according to a study published Monday. The research, which appeared in the U.S. journal Pediatrics, found that ...

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A couple of news stories about some new “studies” on sleep and both ADHD and child behavior recently caught my eye. They illustrate the impressive lengths certain segments of the mental health ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Children who were born extremely preterm -- after only 25 weeks of pregnancy or early -- are more likely to have emotional and behavior problems than their peers who were ...

A new report on child brain research has associated prenatal marijuana exposure with subsequent attention, behavioral and social problems in adolescent children; the risk rises significantly five or ...