Parenting & Education

Researchers have found evidence that the placenta plays an important role in fetal brain development during the early stages of...

To the debate over nature vs. nurture (or, as it has shaken out recently, Amy Chua vs. Bryan Caplan), my colleague Motoko Rich r...

Attachment parenting, or ‘AP’ as it’s often referred to by more devout proponents, is a label that can arouse strong emotions an...

Expectant mothers’ diets could be creating an obesity timebomb for their unborn children, a groundbreaking study involving New Z...

It was another hectic morning in the pediatric clinic of Bellevue Hospital Center in Lower Manhattan, where the clamorous waitin...

Scientists, psychologists, anthropologists and others have long debated which is more influential in making us who we are: natur...