Child Brain Development

Phonics was the preferred method for teaching of reading until the 1960s when it fell out of favour. But what does it mean and h...

In 2002, Elizabeth Gershoff published the first-ever meta-analysis of research (PDF) on the effects of corporal punishment o...

Parents should be subsidised to stay off work and spend longer with their children in the first year of their babies’ lives, the...

‘I always knew there was something missing”. That is a line you often hear from those born through sperm or egg donation.

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Griffin Early Childhood Center in Illinois taking part in ‘one of the largest field experiments ever conducted in economics’.

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A fifth of expectant parents are unaware of the need to talk to their baby, research suggests.

Some 19% of parents-to-be belie...