Social babies!
There was a time, not so long ago, when some people didn’t believe that babies could engage in social interactions.
Read moreIn few, if any, parts of the world is our approach to family breakdown, or to dealing with families in crisis, based on actual scientific evidence of what’s best for children and families.
Too often, we impose too-late ‘interventions’ instead of offering up-front, accessible support and education. Far too often, these interventions are based on a legal approach – family law – which is not the appropriate tool if we’re aiming to look after the health and wellbeing of our children. In fact, not only are such legal interventions too late and not appropriate, but, they’re actually harmful to the very children and families they’re supposed to protect.
In this section, Evidence, you can access a wide range of information, including the results of some of the best scientific research from around the globe.
We will review the available research and data and tell you what statistics you can rely on. In a field often dominated by ideology rather than scientific evidence – by actively promoted ‘fake news’, if you will – we’ll try to help sort the wheat from the chaff.
If you know of better evidence, or more recent research, you’re welcome to share it with us too.
There was a time, not so long ago, when some people didn’t believe that babies could engage in social interactions.
Read moreUniversity of Massachusetts Professor Ed Tronick pioneered some of the most revealing studies of babies in the 20th century. In
Read more“The parent-child connection is the most powerful mental health intervention known to mankind,” says trauma-specialist and best-selling author, Dr Bessel
Read moreWhat does the latest, best scientific evidence tell us about what’s best for children?
Read moreBig government systems can blindly break up small family systems. Sometimes – like Trump at the Mexico border and lockdown
Read moreWhat is kindness? We may need reminding. Here’s fifty good answers in just 90 seconds. We all thrive on kindness
Read moreIt’s official: “not seeing family” was declared the biggest stress factor. In a YouGov survey in Australia at the height
Read moreIt should go without saying that children learn from watching their parents and other adults. But, the extent to which
Read more11 January 2020: In a ground-breaking, scientific paper, 70 scientists from around the globe have come together to try to
Read moreWhy would anyone deliberately separate a child from a parent or caregiver, unless confident that the child would otherwise be
Read moreThe idea of a maternal instinct is deeply rooted in many human societies. But is there really such a thing?
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