The Way Mothers Interact With Babies In First Year Predicts Child Behavior To Age 13

July 1st, 2008

The way mothers interact with their babies in the first year of life is strongly related to how children behave later on. Both a mother’s parenting style and an infant’s temperament reliably predict challenging behavior in later childhood, according to Benjamin Lahey and his team from the University of Chicago in the US.

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Children’s Memory May Be More Reliable Than Adults’ In Court Cases

March 18th, 2008

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The U.S. legal system has long assumed that all testimony is not equally credible, that some witnesses are more reliable than others. In tough cases with child witnesses, it assumes adult witnesses to be more reliable. But what if the legal system had it wrong?

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