May 22nd, 2013

A new UK study finds that children who have suffered maltreatment are 36 percent more likely to be obese in adulthood ...
May 8th, 2013

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 ...
May 6th, 2013

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, ...
May 2nd, 2013

An international team of researchers has determined that child abuse leaves a distinct change in biological pathways.
Such discoveries have the ...
April 28th, 2013

Global attitudes about domestic violence changed dramatically during the first decade of the 2000s, according to a new study.
Nigeria had the largest ...
April 27th, 2013

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 ...
April 8th, 2013

An emerging area of study involves the role by which prenatal exposure to environmental factors can influence fetal development and increase ...
April 6th, 2013

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 ...
March 29th, 2013

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. ...
March 28th, 2013

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 ...