Are there patterns to the way in which risk factors that undermine families and outcomes for young children combine? Research from the UK-wide Millennium Cohort Study suggests not and underlines the challenges facing early intervention.
April 2013
25 April 2013
We know that aggressive behavior in adolescents costs money. Now, a recent study suggests the costs may start piling up much earlier – with the families of aggressive four-year-olds.
24 April 2013
Conduct disorder, ADHD, and oppositional defiant disorder are considered separate diagnoses of chronic behavioral problems. But despite their differences, these conditions develop from similar risk factors in children’s early environments, a recent review argues.
23 April 2013
Investing in early childhood education programs returns more than $3 for every dollar spent, according to data from Washington state. Analysis shows how the benefits of better test scores, graduation rates, lifetime earnings, and crime rates translate into cash – and why policy-makers are listening.
22 April 2013
Nutrition in developing countries is not just about access to food, research suggests. The feeding practices of parents must also improve to combat child malnutrition.
19 April 2013
Good quality early years childcare helps prepare children for school. What’s more, it also improves their parents’ “school readiness,” research points out.
18 April 2013
Preschool improves the development of disadvantaged children in Western countries, but what about elsewhere in the world? What about children living in developing countries who experience extreme poverty? Can the promise of preschool be fulfilled for those kids, too?
17 April 2013
Children who participate in the US’s Early Head Start program do better in the short run than their peers, on average. But these averages hide a lot of variation – variation that may be due to family characteristics, one study claims.
15 April 2013
Young children who are securely attached to their parents typically develop fewer problems down the line. But does attachment to both parents provide double benefits? On the contrary: a new study suggests that infants who were attached to only one parent did just as well in their later behavior as those who were attached to both.
12 April 2013
Research into school bullying has highlighted the important part that bystanders can play in preventing victimization if they intervene or seek adult help. But children who feel strongly enough to do that may be in a minority.
