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The scientific evidence shows why investments in social infrastructure policies are an investment in the future—not just in the long run with respect to child outcomes, but in the short run with [...]

This paper considers the liberal case for explicitly ‘pronatalist’ policies to increase the birth rate in the UK. Should the UK join 28% of countries that have adopted explicitly pronatalist [...]

Toxic stress can have lifelong negative effects. A new policy statement from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) examines how healthy relationships may serve as a buffer. [Rachael Zimlich, [...]

Study carried out in Israel, following the pandemic’s initial outbreak and during the resulting enforced quarantine, confining parents and children to their homes. [Keren Hanetz-Gamliel, Sigal [...]

This qualitative study provides insight into the role of parents’ self-interest in digital media use of children in different age groups. [Suzanne M. Geurts, Ina M. Koning, Helen Vossen & [...]

The collapse of the old working week creates winners and losers. One of the big gaps in the post-pandemic world is between those who can work around life and those who need to fit their lives [...]

Early child development has been influenced directly and indirectly by the COVID- 19 pandemic, and these effects are exacerbated in contexts of poverty. [Helen O. Pitchik et al – Child [...]

The unprecedented circumstances brought by the pandemic have created a strong focus on flexible working and wellbeing in workplaces across the UK and sparked local and national debates on the [...]

New child tax credit featuring advance monthly payments has relieved financial instability and lowered food insecurity for many families with children. [Carmen Reinicke – CNBC, 9 September [...]