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The term comes from British childcare expert Sarah Ockwell-Smith, author of the “The Gentle Parenting Book,” who defines the discipline as“be[ing] responsive to children’s needs” and [...]

With screen time at a high during the Covid-19 pandemic, educators offer some advice. [John Palfrey and Urs Gasser, Smithsonian Magazine, Feb 16, 2021]   READ MORE

Research led by Stanford education professor Jelena Obradović finds that too much parental involvement when children are focused on an activity can undermine behavioral development. [Krysten [...]

The report presents research on care work during the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on structural barriers that prevent equitable distribution of caregiving between women and men. While data show [...]

In 2020, the number of newborns in China was only 12 million. The cost of parenting covers other aspects besides the direct costs of child raising, including housing, healthcare, education, and [...]

Adult millennial children report feeling increasingly out of touch with their parents when it comes to important family issues. Major health diagnoses go unshared, news of a loved one’s passing [...]

Mothers and fathers risk passing down this tendency to the next generation, creating a pattern of dissatisfaction. […] Many other-oriented perfectionists appear to perceive themselves as [...]

Deliberate parenting means two things. The first is being clear up front about what is important to each family member and what is important to the family collectively. Some of this is abstract; [...]

Childhood experiences, both positive and negative, shape the physical, mental, and social health of individuals throughout their entire lives. Early childhood adversity and its residual effects [...]

East–West differences in the outcomes of intentions to postpone or forego (further) childbearing have not been previously examined. With two panel waves of the Generations and Gender Survey in [...]