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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
Our recent study of more than 1,300 families in the United States makes a compelling cognitive development case for investments to help mothers and other caregivers provide stimulating and responsive care of infants and toddlers. We found that mothers’ stimulating and responsive care of children in the first three years predicts improved cognitive development – […] More
Father-child relationships reflect the nuanced kinds of involvement that children require from their dads and simultaneously highlight fatherhood’s central role in male adult development. That’s why we should focus more on the quality of the father-child relationship across time and contexts. The prize is more informed, enthusiastic and skilled fathers, and better-parented young people. Typically, […] More
