Child Health & Development

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

Parents who have a hard time getting their babies and toddlers to sleep at night may also often have trouble at mealtime, new st...

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...