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Being a caregiver is a demanding and often emotionally taxing role, and it’s crucial to prioritize self-care and kindness towards yourself.  [Rob Pineda – Psychology Today, 24 [...]

Germany’s population now stands at 84.7 million while domestic death rates have exceeded birth rates every year since reunification. [Deutsche Welle, 25 January 2024.] READ MORE

The research challenges preconceived notions about language development, particularly in low-income families, by analyzing daylong audio recordings of 1,001 children from diverse backgrounds. [...]

Western Europe has the highest rate of children in residential care facilities at 294 per 100,000 children – nearly triple the global average.  [UNICEF, January 2024.] READ MORE

The very steady increase in the share of elders alongside pressing broader socioeconomic challenges gives the government little incentive to prioritize social or economic ageing-related issues on [...]

Research, analysis, and technical assistance to help court officials and legislators strengthen policies. [Pew Trusts. 19 January 2024.] READ MORE

Interventions promoting supportive adult connections during childhood could pay dividends in young adult population health, reducing the sociocultural risk of mental disorders, such as depression [...]

Results show that those with a living parent or parent-in-law had better health than those lacking these relatives. [Pilar Zueras and Emily Grundy – Social Science & Medicine, February [...]

The evidence is definitely not set in stone. There have been some recent reviews of screen time effects on children, demonstrating very mixed findings. [Hassan Thwaini – Medscape, 15 [...]

In the real world, time complicates intergenerational trades. Future generations can’t pay the present one to save more because they aren’t around to trade with us, nor can they tell us what [...]