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A new report discovers adolescent girls who go through puberty early and have parents who do not nurture them, communicate with them or have knowledge of their activities appear more ... Read more... »
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Psychotropic Medications Overused Among Foster Children
New research finds that psychotropic medications are frequently used to treat youth in foster care. The pattern is disturbing because effectiveness and safety of the pharmaceuticals has not been established.
Psychotropic ... Read more... »
Movie Violence Can Overwhelm Children
A new paper in the peer-reviewed journal Pediatrics documents the alarming numbers of young adolescents age 10-14 who are exposed to graphic violence in movies rated R for violence.
They found that these extremely violent ... Read more... »
Overtime Work Has Negative Impact on Women
Gender inequality occurs when husbands work overtime as the practice sustains the "separate sphere" phenomenon in which men are the breadwinners while women tend to the home, finds a new study.
In dual-income households, women are ... Read more... »
Mechanism for Postpartum Depression
A new research study may have pinpointed the reason why some mothers become depressed following childbirth.
Government researchers used an animal model involving genetically engineered mice lacking a protein critical for adapting to the sex hormone ... Read more... »
Early Life Experiences Shape Social Skills
While it often seems that certain aspects of our personalities are influenced by events that occurred in our childhoods, tangible evidence supporting this assertion has been difficult to obtain.
A recent study by Dr. Akaysha Tang's ... Read more... »
School Failure Depresses Girls
A new report shows that adolescent girls who had a serious school failure by the 12th grade were significantly more likely to have suffered a serious bout of depression at the age of 21 than ... Read more... »
Diversity Promotes Harmony
An intriguing new study suggests children as young as five understand issues regarding integration and separation.
The research, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), confirms that the ethnic composition of ... Read more... »
Rigid Parenting May Backfire
New research suggests a link between rigid parenting and increased sexual activity in older teens.
Although it is difficult to confirm that controlling mothers and fathers cause kids to have more sex, the findings suggest ... Read more... »
Family Meals Lower Chance of Teen Substance Use
Parents of adolescent children know the challenges of “rounding up the troops” to have a sit-down family dinner. Now, results from a new study provide incentive to make the family meal happen on a regular ... Read more... »
