The process of promoting and supporting the physical, emotional, social, and intellectual development of a child from infancy to adulthood.
Questions tagged [parenting]
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Does shaking breastmilk damage it?
My wife just came back from a breastfeeding clinic where the health visitor admonished mothers for shaking their breastmilk rather than stirring it when preparing a bottle. Apparently it "denatures the proteins". This reeks of pseudoscience, but a…
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Are 30% of all putative fathers who take paternity tests not the biological father of their children?
There is a 30% statistical figure quoted in several sites listed below that states almost one in three of the men tested are not the real father of the woman's child.
Today 30% of DNA paternity tests, nearly one in three, prove that the man…
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Do children raised by mothers who choose to conceive as single parents suffer relative to children of traditional nuclear familes?
As I side effect of my volunteer work, I run into many single mothers by choice (call them SMBC for now). These are single women who choose to conceive with the intent to raise the child as a single mother without a partner's support. I've seen…
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Will leaving a baby to cry cause brain damage?
According to some news articles I found, leaving a baby to cry can cause brain damage:
The guardian:
"Leaving baby to cry could damage brain development, parenting guru claims"
Leaving a distressed baby to cry on a regular basis could be…
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