Human development is influenced by, but not entirely determined by, our parents and our genes. Children may have very different personalities, and different strengths and weaknesses, than the ...

Most scholarship on the subject focuses on conditions during childhood. But government support during adulthood plays the ...

Aranya Sawhney Malik, MA Development Studies student blogs about the importance of studying international development.

The refrain of parents is “I love all my children equally.” But not all kids get treated equally. Experts explain the impact of preferential treatment in a family.

child development researchers are arguing that the same thing happens in child development research – the study of how behaviours and abilities such as language develop. Many of the studies that ...

Well, *** new study shows that more ... point to think about which of their children they may tend to treat more or less favorably."If children understand why they are being treated differently ...