While there is growing understanding around the use of coercive control in intimate partner violence, less is known about how children experience this kind of abuse. Coercive control is a pattern of ...

You are tired, running late, already stretched thin and your child does the very thing you asked them not to do. Again. The ...

We are writing about another California child-spanking case because it’s my guess that spanking is not uncommon in our community, yet California takes a dim view of spanking. Especially with something ...

VIOLENCE at home does not stay at home. It finds its way into classrooms, corridors and playgrounds, often through bullying. The child who is hit, screamed at, or humiliated behind closed doors may ...

In Australia, there is growing recognition that children and young people are not just witnesses to domestic, family and sexual violence, but victim-survivors in their own right. While we are getting ...

The immediate purpose of parental discipline is to provide a mix of instruction, encouragement, and correction (when necessary) to teach an adolescent to live according to family values and within ...

Over the past several years, the Human Flourishing Program at Harvard University has pursued research on parenting practices and how these practices affect the flourishing of children as they grow and ...