From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: Researchers studying 120 British youth from inner-city areas found that mothers who became depressed when pregnant were four times as likely to have children who were violent at 16. This was true for both boys...
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: A new study shows that children adopted early from foster care didn't differ from children who were raised in their birth families but that children adopted from institutional care performed worse than those raised in...
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: A new study of young children in orphanages in Bucharest, Romania, has found that children placed in foster care before age 2 were more apt to develop secure attachments to their foster parents than those...
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: A new national study suggests that preschool-aged children are likely to have a lower risk for obesity if they regularly engage in one or more of three specific household routines: eating dinner as a family,...
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: Advanced maternal age is linked to a significantly elevated risk of having a child with autism, regardless of the father's age, according to an exhaustive study of all births in California during the 1990s by...
From Ascribe Newsfeed: What Makes a Young Champion? 2010 (Singapore) is a youth-oriented forum in celebration of Singapore 2010. The two-day forum takes place on the weekend before the inaugural Youth Olympic Games, and encourages youths to discover and explore...
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