Three new studies show a relationship between child rearing practices common in foraging hunter-gathering societies (how we humans have spent about 99 percent of our history) and better mental health, greater empathy and conscience development, and higher intelligence in children.
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September 22, 2010
September 15, 2010
Child’s Play in Art and Science, The Story of Una Hunt
Some ideas keep turning up like lucky pennies on the sidewalk. Take this one. Across the centuries, creative endeavor in the arts and sciences has often been compared to child's play. Any number of famous individuals have remarked upon the subject. So have many people who (as the George Eliot once put it) "lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs." And in some cases, these "unh
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September 9, 2010
Child’s ‘mental number line’ affects memory for numbers
As children in Western cultures grow, they learn to place numbers on a mental number line, with smaller numbers to the left and spaced further apart than the larger numbers on the right. Then the number line changes to become more linear, with small and large numbers the same distance apart. Children whose number line has made this change are better at remembering numbers, according to a new stud
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August 6, 2010
Child Abuse Increases Risk of PTSD in Young Adults
photo by mrcuppofcoffeeResearchers in New Zealand have found a link between childhood abuse and mental disorders in young adults. The article by Drs. Scott, Smith, and Ellis was published in the July issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry. The authors analyzed data from a nationally representative community survey of 2144 New Zealanders ages 16 to 27. The survey assessed a variety of anxiety
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July 27, 2010
February 15, 2010
Child Sexual Abuse Victims At Higher Risk Of Fatal Self-Harm, Australia
Victims of child sexual abuse are at increased risk of suicide and accidental fatal drug overdose later in life, according to the authors of a study published in the Medical Journal of Australia...
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October 31, 2009
Child Abuse Experts Available To Discuss Precious
The much-anticipated movie Precious opens on November 6. The film, whose executive producers include Oprah Winfrey, tells the bleak story of an obese, illiterate 16-year-old Harlem girl who is pregnant with her second child (the result both times of sexual assaults by her father) and who suffers daily verbal and physical abuse at the hands of her mother.
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September 30, 2009
Child’s body image may trigger eating disorder
September 29, 2009 Even as we face a childhood obesity epidemic, health experts warn that children are starving themselves more often - and younger than ever.
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September 1, 2009
Child Success Depends On Family Stability
The advantage that children get from living in two-parent families may actually be due to family stability more than the fact that their parents are married. A new study finds that children who who are born and grow up in stable single-parent homes generally do as well as those in married households in terms of academic abilities and behavior problems.
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August 2, 2009
Child Psych: Parents Are Concerned about Psychiatric Medications
Popular press coverage has once again raised concern about the use of psychiatric medications to treat emotional and behavioral problems in children. A recent study has linked the use of stimulant medication (such as Ritalin) with 10 deaths in a sample of 564 children and adolescents who died suddenly for unexplained reasons. It's important to note that the study was unable to demonstrate that s
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