A long-term study tracking 475 children found that autistic children are far more likely to experience persistent gastrointestinal issues than their peers.

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

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 ...

Prospective, longitudinal analyses revealed that over a 12-year period from ages 6 to 18, individuals who grew up with mothers with more proenvironmental attitudes engaged in more proenvironmental ...

Children and adolescents aged 6 to 17 are recommended to engage in at least 60 minutes of physical activity daily. When parents maintain an active routine, their children are more likely to follow ...

A recent study in Finland investigated the paths from childhood socioemotional behavior to midlife health behavior decades later. Socioemotional behaviour at age 8 predicted health behaviour both ...

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

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 ...

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, ...