May 25th, 2012

A provocative new study suggests untreated maternal fever during pregnancy increases the chance that the ...
May 23rd, 2012

Each year, the U.S. government invests hundreds of millions of dollars in education programs designed to promote healthy marriages, with a ...
May 21st, 2012

A new study finds that the authors of teen literature often portray their more foul-mouthed characters as rich, attractive and popular.
For many adults, the ...
May 18th, 2012

New research has found that parents are happier than people who are not parents.
In the study, “In Defense of Parenthood: Children Are Associated With More ...
May 15th, 2012

Children of unmarried parents who live with their mothers and receive court-mandated financial support from their fathers exhibit more aggressive behavior than those who don’t get ...
May 15th, 2012

Why do nice guys finish last? It's all about hormones, according to a new study.
Research from Kristina Durante, Ph.D., assistant professor ...
May 15th, 2012

Compared to young people with other disabilities, youth with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) struggle more as they navigate through work ...
May 11th, 2012

By checking for specific genetic variants, researchers from the University of Warwick Medical School have been able to predict which women are likely to suffer from postnatal depression.
This, ...
May 10th, 2012

Early musical training benefits children even before they can walk and talk, according to new research.
Researchers at McMaster University of Canada found that one-year-old babies who ...
May 9th, 2012

The risk of teens misusing prescription pain relievers appears to peak around age 16, earlier than many experts thought, according to ...