The research – Persistent Child Poverty in Northern Ireland – which was carried out by Save the Children in partnership with ARK, a joint project between…
Swedish researchers also found that regular positive contact reduces criminal behaviour among children in low-income families and enhances cognitive skills…
Focusing on the Wirral in Merseyside and West Lancashire the study of 100 men, whose surnames were in existence as far back as medieval times, has revealed…
One of the main conclusions of this study is that the use of cigarettes has become very important for women in order to face up to stress and anxiety, control…
Women, who are not necessarily human, have nothing to do with mythical characters such as Snow White, Cinderella, or Minnie. A study carried out by Pilar…
Researchers assessed the behaviour of rats born with different numbers of siblings, a variable that has rarely been taken into account until now. The group…
Today there is a tendency for governments to shift to more punishment-based criminal policies, after decades of dominance for the notion of care, where the…
The peculiarity of this analysis is that differently from other studies it is performed using the statistics of the employment status of people with…
The study, which is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, will be based on interviews with older women (aged 55 and over) and aims to learn why,…
Their paper entitled “Is Well-being U-Shaped over the Life Cycle?” is to be published shortly in Social Science & Medicine, the world’s most-cited social…
“We knew that children learn well with their moms or with a peer, but we did not know if that was because they were getting feedback and help,” Bethany…
Couples in which both the husband and wife suppress their anger when one attacks the other die earlier than members of couples where one or both partners…
On Friday business analyst Anna Jonsson at Lund University will submit a dissertation with new findings: A good system for transmitting knowledge among various…
The report, entitled ‘New families? Tradition and change in modern relationships’, is published today (23 January 2008) by the National Centre for Social…
HIV and AIDS are huge threats to human health. Each day in 2005 around 7,600 people died from HIV-related causes and a further 38.6 million people were living…
In the 1980’s, PAS was defined by scientist Richard Gardner of Columbia University. Men are usually the target parent, since in most cases the mother has…