Professor Alex Jensen from the School of Family Life at Brigham Young University led a study asking the question ... Daughters, the younger siblings and the kids who are just more good-natured ...

Middle children might feel like they’re often overlooked by their parents, but a recent study out of Brock University and the University of Calgary is putting them in the spotlight. According ...

(Other than the obvious — no more doomscrolling after our kids go to bed!) A January study by the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) sampled more than 10,000 11-to-15-year-olds and ...

Jensen said it was important to keep in mind that the study looked at preferential treatment towards children—for instance affection, conflict, time and resources given to each child—rather ...

"This study helps us understand which children are more likely to be on the receiving end of favoritism, which can be both positive and negative." The study examined the link between children's ...

That nagging suspicion might not be all in your head. A study analyzing data from over 19,400 participants concludes that parents do indeed treat their children differently, and the way they choose ...

The study, published in Psychological Bulletin, discovered parents tend to favor daughters slightly more than sons, although only parents tend to recognize the bias — children did not. The study ...

More concerning, 53% of kids 12 to 17 in the Scholastic report said they didn’t enjoy reading books for fun or enjoyed it only a little. The academic ramifications of that are obvious.

The second-last page in Alison Lester's classic children's book, Magic Beach, gets me right in the heart. It shows a beach shack where four kids are tucked into bed together, enjoying the happy ...

The study concluded there was an inverse association between fluoride levels and IQ in children. This means those children who had a higher intake of fluoride had lower IQ scores than their ...