Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Childhood poverty was associated with increases in externalizing problems, but not internalizing, over time in ...

How can researchers measure poverty and understand local development needs in places where conventional data collection is ...

Children, Youth and Environments, Vol. 19, No. 2, The Everyday Environments of Children's Poverty (2009), pp. 164-175 (12 pages) Poverty matters for children's and youths' psychological and physical ...

Generous anti-poverty programs may help narrow gaps in mental health and brain development between children living in low- versus high-income households, a new study finds. The analysis, published in ...

For approximately a decade, research has examined whether trauma or poverty is the most powerful influence on children's cognitive abilities. To address this question, a new study compared adolescents ...

A new study published in Nature Mental Health has found that children growing up in states with higher income inequality show ...

This guest post was written by Suzanne Houston, a doctoral candidate in developmental psychology at USC who uses neuroimaging techniques to study brain development in children and adolescents. All of ...

With 8.6 million deaths reported globally among stillbirths, children, and adolescents up to 20 years of age in 2019, achieving targets to reduce child and adolescent mortality by 2030 remains a ...

Poverty, neglect, housing instability, violence, food insecurity and separation from parents all affect childhood development – and thus, lifelong health. Although children are born ready to learn and ...

Adolescent pregnancy is not only a health issue; it is also rooted in poverty, gender inequality, violence, forced marriage and power imbalance between adolescent girls and their male partners. The ...