Transportation
Best car safety seat positioning for children
| May 10, 2011
2007 study in Injury Prevention on car seat positioning and safety outcomes for children.
Gender
Fathers’ depression and negative parenting behaviors
| May 5, 2011
2011 study from the University of Michigan published in the journal Pediatrics on the link between paternal depression and care for children.
Public Health
Injuries in cribs, playpens and bassinets among U.S. children
| March 17, 2011
2011 study in Pediatrics, the journal of American Academy of Pediatrics, on nonfatal injuries to infants from cribs and related products.
Business
Do babies learn from baby media?
| December 1, 2010
2010 study by researchers from the University of Virginia and Vanderbilt on the number of words that 12- to 18-month-olds picked up from a best-selling instructional DVD for children.
Education
How does your kindergarten classroom affect your earnings?
| November 29, 2010
2010 study from Harvard, Northwestern, and the University of California, Berkeley, researchers on the potential long-term effects of high-quality early education.
Culture
Music training for the development of auditory skills
| September 17, 2010
2010 study by Northwestern University on the potential larger effects of early music training on the brain's development, including linguistic abilities.
Food, Agriculture
Tobacco use links with child malnutrition in developing countries
| April 15, 2010
2009 Tufts University study on the relationship between household tobacco use and child nutrition in the developing world.
Health Care
Latino preschool children’s oral health in rural California
| December 22, 2009
2008 University of California, San Francisco, study on the causes behind the high rate of dental care among the state's Latino children.