If you’re a parent or carer of a child who’s autistic, the odds are you’re spinning more plates than the average person. The emotional, physical and logistical demands stack up, often without the kind ...

Functional programming, as the name implies, is about functions. While functions are part of just about every programming paradigm, including JavaScript, a functional programmer has unique ...

As a professor of child development and family science, every year I witness college students heading home for the holidays after a few months of relative independence. Anecdotally, most students ...

Young children often display similar eating behavior as their parents, with a parent's own eating style influencing how they feed their children. Young children often display similar eating behaviour ...

More than 320,000 children across the United States lost a parent due to a drug overdose between 2011 and 2021. That's according to a new study published in JAMA Psychiatry Wednesday. "It's a call to ...

This piece is part of Scientific American's column The Science of Parenting. For more, go here. Two parents reached out to me recently after their grown son cut off contact with them. In a letter, ...

Pew Research Center conducted this study to better understand the relationship between parents and their young adult children ages 18 to 34. Most of the analysis in this report is based on two surveys ...

More than one-quarter of young adults are estranged from one or both parents, or have been, a finding that suggests a societal shift away from the traditional bonds of family. Several recent studies, ...

“Don’t be their friend, be their parent.” That's Parenting 101, right? It rings true. And as a kid who first tried pot when I was 12 because a friend’s parent supplied it, I understand the intent of ...

In many families, children spend time with a narcissistic parent. This true whether parents are married, never married or divorced. Self-focused parents create certain difficulties for their ...