Child Health & Development

Motherhood begins as a tempestuously physical experience but quickly becomes a political one. Once a woman’s pregnancy goes publ...

Forget hovering over your children. Experts now believe we should let them take risks – for their own sakes.

The moment Cath P...

Harvard psychologist Jerome Kagan is one of the world’s leading experts in child development. In a SPIEGEL interview, he offers ...

Spanking was a subject of debate on every parenting website on the continent during the past week, and I don’t understand why.

“Elective early deliveries really need to stop,” said one researcher not involved in the study.

Even for infants born full-ter...

The latest issue of Brookings and Princeton’s “The Future of Children” adds to the growing number of studies documenting that...