Child Health & Development

In a new corporal punishment study based on actual audio recordings, mothers spank, slap or hit their young children, sparking c...

Riley Fedorchuk holds out two kites, one branded with Lightning McQueen, a smiling red race car from the Disney movie Cars. Th...

No one knows the sex of Storm Stocker, a 4-month-old baby from Toronto. Only the parents, midwives and two older brothers have e...

My major professor in my doctoral program once told me that by the time children are three years old, their lives are set. I w...

A new analysis of data from a cognitive science laboratory at Virginia Tech adds more fuel to the idea that children’s ability t...

Imagine what parenting must have been like during the dawn of civilization.

Women gave birth in their caves, surrounded by fam...