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Child Development Research, Insights and Science Briefs to Your Inbox This experiment, conducted in Canada, confirmed the importance of singing to babies and the positive effects that familiar songs have on them. Singing familiar songs to a distressed baby brings comfort—more so than […] More
Child Development Research, Insights and Science Briefs to Your Inbox Study has found that mothers prone to anxiety, stress, guilt and frustration are more likely to be harsh parents if the father is not supportive. Mothers who are prone to anxiety, nervousness, stress, guilt, […] More
Child Development Research, Insights and Science Briefs to Your Inbox Positive coparenting leads to more father involvement and more father involvement leads to positive coparenting. It is chicken-and-egg. We know from both research and real–life experience that there is a link between the father-mother relationship and how involved the father is in caring for […] More
Child Development Research, Insights and Science Briefs to Your Inbox The overall sensitivity of the fathers during play in this sample of 312 families – 119 African American fathers and 193 Latino fathers – was high. A research study focusing on low-income Latino and African American […] More
Child Development Research, Insights and Science Briefs to Your Inbox Researchers have found that fathers who stimulate their 9-month-olds during play are more likely to enjoy secure attachment 3 to 9 months later. Secure attachment between fathers and their toddlers is predicted by […] More
Child Development Research, Insights and Science Briefs to Your Inbox Sharing care of children within a community buffers children against differences in parenting between families. In a culture that emphasises social equality and sharing, variations in the quality of parenting in a family – including fathers’ parenting – made less difference to the wellbeing of the children than they did […] More
Child Development Research, Insights and Science Briefs to Your Inbox The coparenting study contributes to our growing understanding of how complex family systems operate, with different relationships influencing each other. When parents work well together as a team – known as “coparenting” – fathers tend to be more involved […] More
Child Development Research, Insights and Science Briefs to Your Inbox Where infants and pre-schoolers show fear of spiders, snakes and heights, it is usually related to the occurrence of the same fears in parents. Researchers have been fascinated for years by the question of […] More
