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Another day, another report revealing the damage from COVID policies to children and their development. A BBC study has found […]

What can we do to make child welfare services and systems more proactive, preventative, and holistic? This was the question […]

Join the American Academy of Political and Social Science and the Institute for Research on Poverty for a webinar on […]

School closures are widely seen as a quick fix for COVID-19 transmission. The UK government’s resistance to this measure has provoked considerable concern, including a petition to Parliament that has gathered over a half-million signatures at the time of writing. In practice, argues Robert Dingwall, the effects would mainly be risky for children and the consequences would other institutions’ efforts to work as normally as possible.

When a mother with minor children is imprisoned, she is far from the only one facing consequences. Their children can […]

The English in full moral panic are never an edifying spectacle. The Jimmy Savile affair is no exception, as self-appointed experts on child abuse, BBC-bashing tabloids and ambulance-chasing lawyers have piled into the fray.

How are children using the Internet? How is it affecting them? Sonia Livingstone, who has overseen a major study of children’s behaviour online discusses these issues with Nigel Warburton in this episode of the Social Science Bites podcast.

As part of a series of occasional interviews with leading social scientists, Steve Duck, Professor of Communication Studies and Daniel and Amy Starch Research Chair, University of Iowa, spoke to socialsciencespace.

Cristina Lucier, Boston College, Anna Rosofsky, Bruce London, both of Clark University, Helen Scharber, Hampshire College, and John M. Shandra, SUNY Stony […]

By Jerome L. Singer and Dorothy G. Singer, Yale University One of the greatest developments of the nineteenth century in […]

When we involve young children in our research, there are the usual things we well know that we must attend […]