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This research brief will discuss the prevalence of child marriage, including the potential for violence and exploitation as well as some of the long-term, detrimental effects of marrying young. It will highlight the socioeconomic, family, religious, and cultural circumstances that can leave...
For children and adolescents with mental health needs, such closures mean a lack of access to the resources they usually have through schools. In a survey by the mental health charity YoungMinds, which included 2111 participants up to age 25 years with a mental illness history in the UK...
For our children, the 2020 world must seem a very frightening place indeed. After having spent the summer either experiencing directly, or seeing relentless images on television of, devastating bushfires, their world has now been turned upside down by an invisible adversary that makes...
While coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) continues to spread across the globe, many countries have decided to close schools as part of a physical distancing policy to slow transmission and ease the burden on health systems. The UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization estimates that...
The following guidance, recommendations, and resources are provided by child trauma experts at Child Trends and the Child Trauma Training Center at the University of Massachusetts. The Center is housed at the University of Massachusetts with Child Trends as the lead evaluating agency, with...
Parental burnout is a specific syndrome resulting from enduring exposure to chronic parenting stress. It encompasses three dimensions: an overwhelming exhaustion related to one’s parental role, an emotional distancing from one’s children and a sense of ineffectiveness...
This research-based tip sheet highlights tips for parents of youth with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) on what they could do in the course of their daily lives to help prepare their child for adult life. This information will be useful for both parents and service providers who work directly...
Need free help with autism? Seeking information about symptoms and treatments? Do you wish to know more about Asperger's or Fragile X? Are you seeking to connect with others who are going through the same thing as you? The Autism Support Network connects families and individuals touched by ASD...
Rates of upward economic mobility in the U.S. are too low: on this there is little disagreement from any political quarter. Children from families with fewer resources are at a high risk of poverty in adult life. These resources are usually viewed through an economic lens, most obviously in...
President Trump’s announcement yesterday reminded us all that the opioid crisis is a public health emergency, but in fact it is also a national emergency and we must do so much more. Daily we read articles and see searing reports about the opioid crisis. We’ve learned about the role of some...