A new study published in Child Maltreatment reveals that adults who experienced both physical and sexual abuse during childhood are twice as likely to suffer from a wide range of physical and mental ...

Research suggests that there is greater potential for brain, mind, body, motor, and overall holistic development in an ...

"Emerging adulthood is a time of significant planning, often centered around career development and forming close personal ..

At the heart of Labour’s plan to reform children’s social care is intervening early and supporting families before they hit crisis point. The long-term aim is for fewer children to be taken ...

the researchers propose redefining early-life stress as “early-life adversity” to better encompass the diverse experiences that can impact brain development, even those not traditionally perceived as ...

Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana announced the government had allocated R10 billion towards early childhood development during ... at an early age has a great social impact.

The research, published in the Journal of Personality, found that early experiences of ... critical period in personality development, with traits still relatively malleable before stabilizing in ...

President Cyril Ramaphosa has revealed that with a R10 billion budget allocation for Early Childhood Development (ECD) initiatives, South Africa will leave no child behind in ensuring universal ...

Governments everywhere are “letting children down instead of lifting them up” as conflict, hunger, poverty and climate change hold back child development ... be special consideration and social ...

A new analysis did just that, following people who had no heart disease in their late 30s or early 40s to see how ... which cited the complexity of social issues involved in food availability. “ ...

For many decades, true-blue anti-government conservatives and libertarians have secretly or semi-secretly longed to take a chain saw to Social Security, the crown jewel of the New Deal and of ...