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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 [...]

Strong social-emotional skills have been found to impact children’s development and later success. [David Hansen, Kelsey McCoy – Nebraska Center for Research on Children, Youth, Families [...]

The past year and a half has been exhausting and stressful for parents, but it also gave many fathers more of the family time they want. [Joe Pinsker – The Atlantic, 27 August 2021.]   [...]

Children born during the pandemic have significantly reduced verbal, motor, and overall cognitive performance compared to children born pre-pandemic. [Sean CL Deoni, Jennifer Beauchemin, [...]

Evidence on the mass social experiment in working from home driven by the pandemic: better-than-expected experiences, new investments in physical and human capital, greatly diminished stigma [...]

“As the official COVID-19 death toll around the world passed 4 million earlier this month, UNICEF is increasingly concerned for children left without one or both parents”. [Henrietta Fore [...]

The pandemic “baby bust” could push 2021’s tally down even further; researchers have estimated that the coronavirus and its economic impact could lead to about 300,000 fewer births in the United [...]

How do we keep a child motivated during the pandemic? What can we do to help protect children’s mental health? Psychologist and child development expert Dr. Lisa Damour answers these [...]

The number of deaths linked to COVID-19 among those living in nursing homes has been extremely high, while low-educated individuals and those having household incomes below the national median [...]

For many years, loneliness and social isolation were seen as a social problem among primarily older people and as a natural part of growing older. More recently, they have been framed as a public [...]