brain imaging study finds evidence of basis for caregiving impulse
March 27, 2012
According to a study by researchers at the National Institutes of Health and in Germany, Italy, and Japan, distinct patterns of activity - which may indicate a predisposition to care for infants - appear in the brains of adults who view an image of an infant face.
The USDA's Office of Research and Analysis just published a report named Effects of the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC): A Review of Recent Research.
your help is needed to save the National Longitudinal Surveys
March 06, 2012
The National Longitudinal Surveys (NLS) program faces the biggest threat in its 47-year history as a result of reductions in the 2012 and 2013 Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) budgets.
The Columbia Population Research Center is accepting applications for the Fragile Families Summer Data Workshop to be held July 11-13, 2012, at Columbia University in New York City.
The Raising Teens Project found significant areas of agreement among experts on the parenting of adolescents-in spite of the broad diversity of cultures represented in the United States and the myriad individual differences in parents and children. Its central findings-Ten Tasks of Adolescent Development and Five Basics of Parenting Adolescents-cut across a broad range of disciplinary and cultural perspectives.
SRCD brings the science of child development to public policy through the production of the Social Policy Report Brief, which summarizes the longer Social Policy Report for policy audiences. Reports from 2006 on are available.
