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What happens when we become a parent

The latest science and evidence on a window of human development that we are only beginning to understand.
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  • Childhood & Development
  • Parenthood & Caregiving

“Becoming a parent is a developmental process.”

Do we become a parent when a child is born, or long before that, when the prospect of parenthood first takes shape?

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  • Parenthood & Caregiving

Pregnancy changes women’s brains profoundly

Neuroscience completely overlooked motherhood but now that’s changing

Editor’s pick
  • Parenthood & Caregiving

Biological changes help men prepare for fatherhood

Male care is part of how and why humans thrived as a species

  • Parenthood & Caregiving

“Dad brain” is real

New research tells us about patrescence and what fathers need

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  • Health & Wellbeing

Parenting begins in pregnancy

A science explainer on why we need a two-generation approach to wellbeing

  • Health & Wellbeing

“Love really protects you, the parent and the baby”

Interview with Ruth Feldman, Founder of the Center for Developmental Social Neuroscience at Reichman University

  • Parenthood & Caregiving

Protecting children begins with healing parents

Child–Parent Psychotherapy helps caregivers move from fear to love

  • Parenthood & Caregiving

Becoming a parent changes our brains

Embracing "matrescence" can reshape how we care for caregivers

  • Parenthood & Caregiving

“I wanted to understand the evolution of man-the-nurturer”

Interview with Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, Author of Father Time: A Natural History of Men and Babies

  • Health & Wellbeing

“The more we give ourselves, the more we have to give others”

Interview with Kristin Neff, Author of Self-compassion: The proven power of being kind to yourself

  • Policy & Practice

“Growing inequality is worsening the parenting gap”

Interview with Fabrizio Zilibotti, Co-author of Love, Money & Parenting: How Economics Explains the Way We Raise Our Kids

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  • Health & Wellbeing

Singing lullabies soothes stress in parents

What if every family could create an original lullaby?

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