The importance of maternal care on offspring development has received considerable
attention, although more recently, researchers have begun to focus on the significance of …

Highlights•Brain neuroimaging reveal mechanisms for parental sensitivity that are subject to
early-life, moods and stress.•Increasingly realistic brain imaging paradigms and methods …

Parents know the transformative nature of having and caring for a child. Among many
mammals, giving birth leads from an aversion to infant stimuli to irresistible attraction. Here …

Parenting behavior critically shapes human infants' current and future behavior. The parent–
infant relationship provides infants with their first social experiences, forming templates of …

The transition to parenthood has been associated with declines in testosterone among
partnered fathers, which may reflect males' motivation to invest in the family. Moreover …

Men have the capacity to respond to the transition to fatherhood and nurturant investments
in their partners and children with shifts in neuroendocrine function (such as decreased …

In mammals, paternal care is rarer and more variable in its proximate mechanisms of
development and underlying neural mechanisms than is maternal care. Here, we discuss …

It is customary to introduce a scholarly tome by reciting a litany of reasons why scientists
have ignored a particular topic, creating the raison d'être for the pages that follow. The area …

Children are profoundly influenCed by their parents. In fact, parents and families have long
been viewed “as the most significant influences on the developing child.” 1 Children owe …

During the transition to parenthood (TTP), both women and men report declines in sexual
desire, which are thought to reflect an evolutionarily adaptive focus on parenting over …