For more than a century, scientists have debated whether intelligence is mostly a product of nature or nurture. Identical ...

PEOPLE OR PLACE: Samuel Putnam delivers his inaugural lecture as an endowed chair of social sciences in Mills Hall. Putnam ...

This piece comes to us from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). To honor Hispanic Heritage Month, WCS and Nature are sharing stories of nature and ...

According to the National Alliance for Drug Endangered Children, one in four children in the U.S. live with at least one ...

Kamren, 8, is a resilient and fun-loving boy with a bright, inquisitive nature. He has a wonderful ability to advocate for himself and share his needs, which speaks to his strength and self-awareness.

Our new paper in the journal Nature Human Behaviour describes how young children are capable of finding systematic ... ready for structured problems as early as preschool means we can nurture these ...

Are we destined to be smart? Twin studies reveal strong genetic roots for IQ, yet up to a third of intelligence is shaped by environment, context, and choice.

A Baton Rouge man and his ex-girlfriend, who fled the state to North Dakota, are both accused of sexually abusing two children and performing other crimes against nature. Shalom Moalem-Rabi, 41, was ...

An age-old conundrum regarding raising children is the issue of nature versus nurture. That is, do genes determine a child’s success in life, or is it the environment in which that child is raised?

More than any other issue, family formation is fast becoming the defining factor between Democrats and Republicans. As an Institute for Family Studies report recently showed, the higher the support ...

Gentex Corporation, in collaboration with the Outdoor Discovery Center, has launched a nature-based preschool at 3845 88th Ave. for employees’ families, responding to ongoing child care challenges in ...