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Child Development Research, Insights and Science Briefs to Your Inbox Gender nonconforming youth are more likely to experience rejection and verbal, physical and sexual abuse from both parents and peers. Gender nonconforming children, particularly boys, experience victimization. They are more likely to be rejected and verbally abused by their parents, and they suffer higher levels of both […] More
How do children learn common stereotypes? Recent research has shown that, if you tell young children that one group is good at something (for example, “Girls are good at playing basketball”), they are likely to infer that other unmentioned groups (such as boys) are not so good at it. This is particularly likely if children […] More
A review of 206 studies of care by grandparents has proposed a more coherent framework to analyse and understand how care by grandparents contributes to children’s development and health. The research identifies: two types of care by grandparents custodial care in skipped generation families (no parent present) care within multigeneration families (one or both parents […] More
Two key perspectives have emerged to explain how poverty affects family functioning and early childhood development. One focuses on stress and how it reduces the quality of parent-child relationships and thus the child’s social and emotional development. The other focuses on parents’ limited resources to provide cognitive stimulation, resulting in less advanced cognitive development. One […] More
Is maltreatment by parents associated with less quantity and quality of parent-child reminiscing on the child’ past, and, if so, is this a mechanism by which maltreatment leads to poorer early childhood emotional development? Researchers who asked this question in a recent study found a pathway between maltreatment and emotional development. Specifically: Maltreatment predicts less […] More
A recent review of 448 studies covering 480,830 families confirms that parental involvement in their children’s education has a number of positive effects. Previous research had produced mixed results. This synthesis, known as a meta-analysis, was able to identify links more reliably. Parents who want to support their children’s early performance at school should consider […] More
After showing that gender nonconforming children are less popular with their peers. researchers in Hong Kongrecently tested an intervention that successfully changed perceptions for the better, albeit only measured in the short-term and in a laboratory setting rather than in real life. The research was divided into two studies. The first looked at how children […] More
