Childhood adversity, encompassing experiences such as emotional and physical abuse, neglect, and witnessing intimate partner violence, has long been recognized as a major public health problem, ...

Adverse life circumstances in early childhood, such as poverty, homelessness, family conflict, parental separation, harsh parental discipline, parental mental illness, parental violence, or chronic ...

Below, Jay Belsky shares five key insights from his new book, The Nature of Nurture: Rethinking Why and How Childhood Adversity Shapes Development. Belsky is emeritus professor of human development at ...

Adversity early in life can have permanent health consequences for people - even if their circumstances improve dramatically later on. Scientists use a cumulative adversity index, or CAI, which ...

Many factors influence growth and reproductive patterns in animals and people alike. New research, led by postdoctoral ...

There's something most species -- from baboons to humans to horses -- have in common: When they suffer serious adversity early in life, they're more likely to experience hardship later on in life.

How resilient are you? We’ve been thinking about all that has gone on in the world in the last few years and is still going on today. That got us reflecting about our parents and ancestors. They ...

It’s well-established in psychology that if you experience trauma as a child, chances are it’ll impact your physical and mental health as an adult, and could even affect your economic status. In ...