Highlights•Crying can provide evidence about an infant's metabolic and neurological
condition.•Excessive crying can trigger feeding problems, parental depression and infant …

Perhaps no aspect of developmental change is more salient to parents than their young
child's social and emotional behavior over the first years of life. The emergence of the first …

Close proximity to infants increases mothers' awareness of her infants' needs and
subsequent responsive maternal behaviour. Limited research on infant carrying or …

Objective To compare fathers' and mothers' perceptions of the impact and severity of their
child's food allergy and their levels of involvement in allergy-related care. Methods One …

Simulation is a technique that creates a situation or environment to allow persons to
experience a representation of a real event for the purpose of practice, learning, evaluation …

Though parental modeling is thought to play a critical role in promoting children's healthy
eating, little research has examined maternal food intake and maternal food talk as …

The parent–infant relationship begins during pregnancy as parents prepare psychologically
for the birth of their child. Father involvement, beginning in pregnancy, is associated with …

Investigating cases of child pornography requires daily exposure to sexually explicit material
involving children and may have negative implications on the mental well-being of those in …

This study, conducted in Germany, examines the role of maternal soothing strategies to
explain the association of maternal self‐efficacy with infant regulation (crying and sleeping …

ABSTRACT “Ghosts in the nursery.”“Visitors from the unremembered past.” Fraiberg,
Adelson, and Shapiro's (1975) words convey the relational “intruders” that they perceived …