News & Links
All the information that I place on the Alliance website is there to make it available for advocates of children’s wellbeing, so they are easily able to access any information they may need. If you use this service, it would be helpful if you acknowledged the Alliance for Childhood website as your source. We would also welcome any additional information, news items or research. This is the news that came in during the last 6 months. Any older items are in the archive.
Christopher Clouder
The Power of Family Conversation
Wednesday 14. of May 2008By: Harvard Education Letter
School matters, but literacy starts at home. Teachers armed with reading contracts and carefully worded missives have long urged parents to read aloud to their children. But now there is a second and perhaps more powerful...
Close ties between parents and babies yield benefits for preschoolers
Sunday 27. of April 2008By: Society for Research in Child Development
Having close ties with parents is obviously good for preschoolers, but what does that really mean? It means that the preschoolers are better able to control their own behavior by showing patience, deliberation, restraint, and...
Does mother know what's best for baby? That's not the way grandmothers see it
Sunday 06. of April 2008By: The Guardian
Grandmothers are watching in horror as their children turn into over-ambitious, competitive parents with pampered, demanding offspring, according to a new report into how women's experience of motherhood has changed over the...
Stressed parents 'make kids ill'
Wednesday 19. of March 2008By: BBC News
Parents with stressful lives may be making their children as well as themselves vulnerable to illness, research suggests.
Fathers' involvement and children's developmental outcomes: a systematic review of longitudinal studies
Friday 29. of February 2008By: Acta Paediatrica
Objective: This systematic review aims to describe longitudinal evidence on the effects of father involvement on children's developmental outcomes.
MP pledges to force smacking ban
Saturday 16. of February 2008By: BBC News
A senior Labour MP says the law on smacking children in England and Wales is unworkable, and plans to propose a ban in defiance of the government.
Fifth of children are raised by families living on benefits
Wednesday 13. of February 2008By: Daily Mail
One in five British children is growing up in a family dependent on state handouts, shocking figures show.