The parenting behavior we’re talking about is parentification, which “happens when a child takes on responsibilities or ...

Kids will be kids. The little ones always find ways to pull mischievous pranks, cause a bit of chaos, and have fun no matter what. That's what childhood is about. Their energy sparks the world and ...

Foster youth behaviors aren’t defiance—they’re survival signals. Seeing through a trauma lens shifts stigma to empathy, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Certain types of childhood maltreatment were linked to suicide behaviors among children and young adults, ...

A new category of sexual behaviors has emerged, where children and youth may be too young to be criminalized, yet their behaviors are serious enough that action needs to be taken. Sexual behaviors in ...

About 61% of Americans have had at least one Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE), experts' formal term for a traumatic childhood event. ACEs--which may include abuse, neglect and severe household ...

As children, we often don’t slow down enough to rationalize how the behaviors we adapt to early in life evolve in adulthood. The expectation is that life matures the innocent mind, and mistakes are ...

"Children are the mirror of their parents" is a cliché, but it describes the reality in certain contexts. At least in ...

A person's strength and cardiovascular fitness in adulthood may be traced back to behaviors established during childhood, ...

Among childhood cancer survivors, health behaviors play a critical role in reducing risk for subsequent malignancies and chronic health conditions. Based on research in the general population, health ...