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WHO on parenting interventions
Handbook with comprehensive advice for policy-makers, practitioners, and stakeholders involved in the development, implementation, and monitoring of evidence-based parenting interventions [World [...]
AI for Healthy Cities: Family situation among key factors
New analysis of electronic health records linked to public data suggests strong associations between heart health and daily city life: long commutes, income levels, education, air pollution, [...]
Lego Launches Prescription for Play
Understanding the impact of play is essential for parents. Play might seem little more than a delightful distraction, but experts say it’s a cornerstone of healthy development. While fancy [...]
UK: Business Taskforce for Early Childhood
The report has identified areas in which business can make the biggest impact in supporting current and expectant parents and caregivers, both as employees and as people raising the next [...]
Role of family environment in academic development
Academic achievement is partly heritable and highly polygenic. However, genetic effects on academic achievement are not independent of environmental processes. We investigated whether aspects of [...]
CHINA: Taking grandparents to school
Intergenerational relationships that highlight learning characteristics are created in interpersonal conflicts and lifelong education. Realizing the high-quality development of intergenerational [...]
ILO Report: Maternity protection, paternity and parental leave
Maternity protection is crucial for preventing and alleviating poverty and vulnerability, enhancing the health, nutrition and overall well-being of mothers and newborns, fostering gender equality [...]
UK: Call for better paternity leave
Men campaigning for enhanced paternity leave have attached lifesize model babies in slings to bronze statues of men across central London and called on the government to improve the UK’s parental [...]