Child Health & Development

Blaming teachers for low test scores, poor graduation rates and the
other ills of American schools has been popular lately, but...

One of the most common questions asked to a mom of an infant is, “Is she a good sleeper?”

Often what they actually are askin...

Fish oil may not benefit new moms or babies, but chocolate and exercise do.

Pregnant women
have tweaked their diets, tried pr...

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

When the map of the human gen...

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

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...