Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Patricia writes about family law and tips for female lawyers. The rights of parents to the care, custody of, and decision making ...

There should be no phoning it in as a parent. Screen-addicted moms and dads are ruining their kids’ language development skills by typing, texting, tweeting and TikTokking, new data warns. “Parental ...

This post was co-authored by Sierrah Hamilton. Parents today face unique challenges in engaging their children. Studies show that young people spend excessive amounts of time daily interacting with ...

Planned Parenthood Action Fund of Florida criticized the bill as “reckless” and said it would place “extreme barriers” in front of young people trying to access healthcare services including birth ...

Parenting in today’s fast-paced, social media-driven world continually presents new challenges, especially when it comes to children’s mental health and wellness. A recent Surgeon General advisory ...

Our children are increasingly ridden with anxiety and depression, isolated and stressed by social media and destabilized by socioeconomic disadvantages, divorce and even violence. But it's not just ...

Preventive mental health care begins at home and in schools. A clinical psychologist explains why emotional safety, early intervention and teacher training can protect children from long-term ...

This research, the first-ever longitudinal study on the effects of parental personality disorders on child mental health and development, found that parental narcissism was linked with “later child ...

Can poverty exacerbate mental health problems among the youngest family members? A new study by an international team, including a researcher from SWPS University, demonstrates that financial problems ...

Much of the previous literature on the intergenerational effects of ACEs is limited by small sample sizes from a single health system, city, or state. To our knowledge, only one previous study used ...

The legislation states that a parent has the right to “direct the upbringing” of their child, including the “moral and ...