Background Despite robust evidence of fathers' impact on children and mothers, engaging
with fathers is one of the least wellexplored and articulated aspects of parenting …

This article is part of a Special Issue “Parental Care”. Early mother–infant relationships play
important roles in infants' optimal development. New mothers undergo neurobiological …

Childhood is the time when we forge our first social bonds, first learn how to express and
read basic human emotions, and first make sense of the physical world. In childhood …

Brain networks that govern parental response to infant signals have been studied with
imaging techniques over the last 15 years. The complex interaction of thoughts and …

Social feelings have conceptual and empirical connections with affect and emotion. In this
review, we discuss how they relate to cognition, emotion, behavior and well-being. We …

There is strong evidence that children of mothers with insecure attachment styles have poor
outcome trajectories. Maternal sensitivity may be the behaviour which links mother and child …

Both prenatal and postnatal parental bonding (ie, the affective tie from parent to child) have
important effects on parental and child functioning. However, research on the continuity and …

Fathering plays an important role in infants' socioemotional and cognitive development.
Previous studies have identified brain regions that are important for parenting behavior in …

Research shows that a woman's brain and body undergo drastic changes to support her
transition to parenthood during the perinatal period. The presence of this plasticity suggests …

Parental responses to their children are crucially influenced by stress. However, brain-based
mechanistic understanding of the adverse effects of parenting stress and benefits of …