What is the role of families in child development?
The Child and Family Blog reports on the latest research on how families influence child development.
The blog overview looks at parenting as a team around children (“coparenting”) and how it operates in the infinite variety of families across the world. It looks not just at parents’ and carers’ relationship with children, but at their relationships with each other (the “community of care”). It looks at how children can benefit from multiple and different experiences of parental care. It considers the historical origins of the term, “primary carer”.
Key influences on how parents care for children are considered, such as separation and divorce, poverty and stress.
Enjoy!
Perhaps most crucially, within the environment in which children are raised, families play a central role in their development
In Partnership with ISSBD
The Child & Family Blog (CFB) has partnered with the International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development (ISSBD), to communicate the science of child development to parents and carers globally.
In addition to publishing blog posts based on articles from the ISSBD’s International Journal of Behavioral Development, we will co-host a series of webinars designed for early career scholars on communicating the science. These sessions will feature global researchers and science communicators who will share successful strategies for engaging local communities.