Tag: child development

Harsh parenting may do more harm than good for children’s education

From an analysis of more than 1,000 students, researchers found that children exposed to harsh parenting were more likely to engage in delinquency and other negative behaviors as teenagers, which was associated with lower educational achievement by the age of 21. Study leader Rochelle F. Hentges, of the Department of Psychology at the University of […]

Childhood pets surpass siblings for relationship satisfaction

Study leader William T. Cassels, of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, and colleagues recently reported their findings in the Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology. America is a nation of pet lovers. According to The Humane Society of the United States, around 66.5 million households in the U.S. […]