Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Childhood poverty was associated with increases in externalizing problems, but not internalizing, over time in ...

A study reported in December in an article in European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry shows an association between child poverty and a heightened propensity to develop externalizing disorders during ...

The relationship of individual and family factors to the psychological well-being of junior high school students living in urban poverty De Haan, L.G. & MacDermid, S. (1998). The relationship of ...

This guest post was written by Suzanne Houston, a doctoral candidate in developmental psychology at USC who uses neuroimaging techniques to study brain development in children and adolescents. All of ...

Children, Youth and Environments, Vol. 19, No. 2, The Everyday Environments of Children's Poverty (2009), pp. 164-175 (12 pages) Poverty matters for children's and youths' psychological and physical ...

With 8.6 million deaths reported globally among stillbirths, children, and adolescents up to 20 years of age in 2019, achieving targets to reduce child and adolescent mortality by 2030 remains a ...

(Reuters Health) - A positive parenting style might protect kids from the negative effect that growing up in poverty is thought to have on their brain development, Australian researchers say. Using ...

Children feel politically powerless and often invisible. A new study and an art project by Arche show how serious the ...

Childhood poverty is associated with a number of physical health problems in adulthood, including Type II diabetes. Childhood poverty can exert a lasting effect on health, with biological and ...

Adolescent mothers often fall through the cracks of educational programming. This is highly problematic given that globally an estimated 12 million girls between the ages of 15 and 19, and 777,000 ...