A project in Vietnam to engage fathers in “team parenting” with the mother around the birth of the baby and to bond with their baby has led to enhanced language, …
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A study has found that continuous maternal depression in the first six years of a child’s life predicts family disharmony—but not if the father parents sensitively. On the basis of …
A new Canadian study has looked at the feelings about breastfeeding of highly involved fathers of babies exclusively breastfed to six months. Francine de Montigny and colleagues at the University …
The WHO Safe Childbirth Checklist has been designed and tested to help prevent the major worldwide causes of maternal deaths, intrapartum-related stillbirths and neonatal deaths. Could a family inclusive version …
Family inclusive maternal healthcare is when fathers and other family members are actively engaged by healthcare workers in a partnership of care for a woman during her pregnancy, during labour …
Thanks to Child & Family Blog for permitting reproduction of this article. Researchers measured the changes in testosterone in fathers in a situation where their 12 month old baby was …
If human parenting has evolved to include both close and more distant relatives of the child, as this article argues, then it comes as no surprise that recent research has …
We asked Dr Anna Machin at the Social and Evolutionary Neuroscience Research Group at the University of Oxford to comment on the research she published about the experiences of fathers …