On Instagram, mom influencer Bronte Towns, a mother of four from Australia, virally explained the educational perks of taking family showers with her kids. There’s a rubba-dub-double benefit to ...

This piece is part of Scientific American's column The Science of Parenting. For more, go here. Two parents reached out to me recently after their grown son cut off contact with them. In a letter, ...

Chrissy Teigen is no stranger to internet controversy, but this time, it’s bath time that has social media in a frenzy. Over the weekend, the 39-year-old model and cookbook author shared an Instagram ...

New parents are faced with a host of unfamiliar challenges. Navigating nightly interruptions to sleep and changing diapers are among the more notable hurdles new parents must clear, but a host of ...

This chapter focuses on the relationship between parents and their young adult children, from the parents’ perspective. For many of the questions, parents were asked to think of a specific child ages ...

Most parents expect to pay for their children until they become adults. But many say they are still financially subsidizing their now-adult children, sometimes well into their late 20s and early 30s, ...

New surveys show that today’s intensive parenting has benefits, not just risks, and most young adults seem happy with it, too. By Claire Cain Miller American parenting has become more involved — ...

Conversations around parent-child relationships can lead to striking revelations about neglect, selfish actions, or a lack of a close parental relationship. Though there's no denying the impact ...

No one regrets having a child, or so it’s said. I’ve heard this logic often, usually after I’m asked if I have children, then, when I say I don’t, if I plan to. I tend to evade the question, as I find ...