Physical punishment is increasingly viewed as a form of violence that harms children. This
narrative review summarises the findings of 69 prospective longitudinal studies to inform …

The present meta-analysis integrates research from 1,435 studies on associations of
parenting dimensions and styles with externalizing symptoms in children and adolescents …

Exposure to childhood adversity has an impact on adult mental health, increasing the risk for
depression and suicide. Associations between Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and …

BACKGROUND In 1989, the United Nations (UN) Convention on the Rights of the Child,
through its Committee on the Rights of the Child, called on all member states to ban corporal …

By the 1990s, it was recognized that the method by which causality is typically shown in
scientific studies—the randomized control trial—had limited application for studying the …

BACKGROUND: The use of physical punishment is controversial. Few studies have
examined the relationship between physical punishment and a wide range of mental …

A little more than a century ago, the famous social scientist WEB Du Bois asserted that a true
understanding of African American offending must be grounded in the" real conditions" of …

Sažetak Abuse and neglect of children is a public health issue at a global, European, and
Croatian level, with significant rates of morbidity and mortality. Actual circumstances of a …

This study draws on the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (N= 2,032), a birth
cohort study of families with children from 20 US cities. Interviews occurred between August …

Generations of students have been taught to think about the nature of human aggression as
a choice between two alternatives. Was Thomas Hobbes (1968/1660) right in assuming a …