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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Harvard Medical School researchers at McLean Hospital published a study demonstrating an association between race-based adversity in childhood and structural differences in brain development. In the ...

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 ...

The National Data Agency’s “Child and Youth Quality of Life 2025” report released shows that the suicide rate for children ...