Tag: children
Opioid epidemic may have cost states at least $130 billion in...
Joel Segel, Pennsylvania State University; Douglas L. Leslie, Pennsylvania State University; Gary Zajac, Pennsylvania State University; Max Crowley, Pennsylvania State University, and Paul L....
Will children in your state get the support they need? It...
Heather L. Hanna, Mississippi State University
The first three years of a child’s life are the most crucial for brain development. In fact, children raised...
Why parents should think twice about tracking apps for their kids
Joel Michael Reynolds, University of Massachusetts Lowell
The use of self-tracking and personal surveillance technologies has grown considerably over the last decade. There are now...
The soaring cost of US child care, in 5 charts
Heidi Steinour, University of South Florida
The cost of having children in the U.S. has climbed exponentially since the 1960s. So it’s no wonder the...
How where you’re born influences the person you become
Samuel Putnam, Bowdoin College and Masha A. Gartstein, Washington State University
As early as the fifth century, the Greek philosopher Thucydides contrasted the self-control and...
What’s behind the dramatic rise in 3-generation households?
Natasha Pilkauskas, University of Michigan
In a recent study, I discovered that the number of kids living with their parents and grandparents – in what...
Sexual assault among adolescents: 6 facts
David Finkelhor, University of New Hampshire and Ateret Gewirtz-Meydan, University of New Hampshire
Christine Blasey Ford’s account of allegedly being sexually assaulted by Supreme Court...
A Father’s Day reminder from science: Your kids aren’t really growing...
Keith Payne, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill
I am one of those men for whom it is impossible to find Father’s Day...
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Trump should wage a war on waste instead of battling the...
Clyde Eiríkur Hull, Rochester Institute of Technology
President Donald Trump is fighting the wrong fight in his ongoing trade war with the rest of the...
