Child Health & Development

Policy makers who want to simultaneously boost high school graduation rates and reverse health epidemics from diabetes to obesit...

This is the second installment in a three-part Harvard Medical School series on childhood obesity.

With childhood obesity now...

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.