Abused Children at Risk for Adult Obesity
May 22nd, 2013
A new UK study finds that children who have suffered maltreatment are 36 percent more likely to be obese in adulthood ...
A new UK study finds that children who have suffered maltreatment are 36 percent more likely to be obese in adulthood ...
Women who are victims of domestic violence are at a higher risk of becoming depressed, according to a new study.
Conversely, the new study also found that ...
Early childhood adversity -- such as maltreatment, exposure to domestic violence, or living with another person with serious mental illness -- may carry heavy consequences from generation to generation, ...
An international team of researchers has determined that child abuse leaves a distinct change in biological pathways.
Such discoveries have the ...
Global attitudes about domestic violence changed dramatically during the first decade of the 2000s, according to a new study.
Nigeria had the largest ...
Children who are exposed to poor parenting, whether it's abuse, neglect or overprotection, are more likely to experience childhood bullying, according to new research.
A meta-analysis of 70 studies of more than 200,000 children ...
An emerging area of study involves the role by which prenatal exposure to environmental factors can influence fetal development and increase ...
A new study finds that close to 40 percent of UK parents who killed their children suffered from some sort of mental illness.
Researchers at The ...
Provocative new research suggests marital conflict is a significant source of environmental stress for children.
Witnessing parents fighting may harm children's stress response systems. ...
A new National Institutes of Health study discovers financial, emotional, or other stress in the year before delivery can increase a pregnant woman’s chance of stillbirth.
Stillbirth ...
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