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On the occasion of the Global Day of Parents, UNICEF has put together some various articles with experts’ recommendations to help parents in their struggle to find time for themselves and [...]

Parental risk screening can be used to recognize poor nurturing care in primary health care settings. Targeted interventions are warranted to improve nurturing care for optimal early childhood [...]

People are not designed to separate work from life. Why? Because there’s nothing other than life, and if someone of the many people who dedicate half of their waking life (or more) to their work, [...]

Evidence of the preference for having a girl, reflected in an increased probability of not having a second child if the first child is female. They also find that women who have two children of [...]

Self-reported poor family cohesion the first year after the loss of a parent to cancer is strongly associated with long-term negative psychological health-related outcomes among bereaved [...]

What help do parents actually give their children in the labor market? One key advantage is human capital, in the broadest sense. However, parents, when they can, also employ a wide array of [...]

Parenting as a key non-formal education tool for better population outcomes.

It is well established that parenting influences child behavior at home, but less is known about the associations between parenting and teacher reports of child behavior at school, an environment [...]

Many industrialized societies have experienced increases in life expectancy and in the mean age at first birth. This has likely impacted the lifetime that parents share with their children; i.e., [...]