In Partnership with ISSBD
In Partnership with ISSBD
At the Child and Family Blog, we report on important and high-quality research about child development and how caregivers can support their children. Leading researchers write each article especially for the Blog and our audience of parents, other caregivers, practitioners, and policymakers.
The Blog is owned by the not-for-profit Child and Family Science Global Outreach Corporation in Maryland, USA.
We work in partnership with the International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development (ISSBD) to help researchers use effective science communication skills in outreach activities within their communities.
We started in 2015 as a collaborative project of the Jacobs Foundation and the University of Cambridge, to explain research findings to lay audiences of parents, practitioners and policy makers through our online blog posts.
In 2021, we moved out of the Jacobs Foundation into a purpose-built not-for-profit organisation in the USA. Thirty leading child development academics came together to fund the Blog.
In 2025 we are diversifying our work into supporting others to communicate child development science to parents, particularly in countries of the Global South. We have built a partnership with ISSBD for this purpose. To start, we will co-host a series of webinars designed for early career scholars. These sessions will feature global researchers and science communicators who will share successful strategies for engaging local communities.
The Academic Council develops new communication ideas for the Child & Family Blog. It has working groups on fatherhood, adolescence, early learning, and family law.