Aug 17 2010

How Rare Are Female Child Killers?

Tag: Babies, Child, Crime, Drowning, Family Members, Mother, Murder, Parents, Police, Strangulation, Toddler, Women — Benjamin Radford @ 4:22 pm
A 29-year-old mother confesses to suffocating her two toddlers before driving them into a river. Sadly, the case is not as rare as many might think.

Jul 27 2010

Mom’s Love Leads to Less Stressed Adults

Tag: Child, Mother — Discovery News - Top Stories @ 4:45 pm
Loving bonds can make small children more resilient to adult life's trials and tribulations.

May 25 2010

9/11-Linked Miscarriages Suggest Boys More Vulnerable to Stress

Tag: Babies, Events, Male, Mother, Pregnancy, Sex and Reproduction, Women — Emily Sohn @ 1:29 pm
The stress of 9/11 may have increased the number of miscarriages among women carrying male babies.

Feb 17 2010

Bilingual Babies Learn Language in the Womb

Tag: Babies, Etiquette and Languages, Experiments, Mother, Pregnancy — Discovery News - Top Stories @ 2:14 pm
Infants exposed to different vocabularies early on prepares them to listen to and learn multiple languages.

Feb 08 2010

Older Mothers More Likely to Bear Autistic Children

Tag: Father, Infant, Mother, Pregnancy, Pregnancy Issues — Discovery News - Top Stories @ 5:10 pm
As births to older mothers have increased, so has the number of autism cases.