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The right loves genetic explanations for poverty or mental illness. But science fingers society.

When the map of the human gen...

British children are losing out on chances in life because their mothers and fathers have abandoned the traditional “tough love”...

Forming Letters Is Key to Learning, Memory, Ideas.

Ask preschooler Zane Pike to write his name or the alphabet, then watch thi...

There is a danger of reading too much into new research in the Lancet on attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). The h...

Children aren’t learning enough because parents aren’t talking
enough, and learning to correct that was the main focus of the “...

Being a parent is an ancient art. And it seems we could learn a thing or two about child rearing by going back to the days of th...