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More than one-quarter of dads surveyed said negative judgments of others undermined their parental confidence, while 20% said that it discouraged them from getting more engaged with parenting.

Principal Kimberly Sampietro says in an interview with WebMD that 6-year-old Morey Belanger is the first deaf student at Dayton Consolidated School -- but that hasn’t stopped any of the other kids from buddying up to her.

As more men over 40 are becoming dads, a study says older men may be more likely to father children with health woes. But the overall risk of birth problems remains low, an expert says.

Want to give your child an edge in math and English? Enroll them in music lessons.

Rates of self-harm decreased among heterosexual youth from 2005 through 2017, but not among lesbian and gay youth over the same period, the study author said.

Not getting enough sleep may impair decision-making and increase impulsiveness, increasing the chance of sexual risk-taking, the study author said.

The new results are in line with a 2017 study that found that kids who watched movies featuring gun violence were more likely to handle and use guns.

The deaths fall under the umbrella of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), and accidental suffocation and/or strangulation in bed.

Before adjusting for other factors, the researchers found that teens who owned promotional items were 2.3 times more likely to try alternative tobacco products than those who did not.

Suicide is the second-leading cause of death among Americans aged 10 to 19, with rates historically higher in boys than girls.

What's the best thing parents can tell their children to help prevent myopia, or nearsightedness? "Go outside and play,” a researcher says.

Remember being told to "just say no" to marijuana and other drugs? Researchers now say "just not yet" to teens considering marijuana, as the drug may affect brain growth.

Mixing energy drinks with alcohol is growing in popularity among young adults and can lead to overdrinking and related threats such as impaired driving, the report noted.

Compared with their peers who spent no more than a half-hour in front of a screen each day, 5-year-olds who logged over two hours were six times more likely to have "clinically significant" attention issues.

Reasons for the increase, researchers said, probably include greater recognition of the problem by parents, schools and doctors and perhaps that kids are under more stress or are developing depression at higher rates.

The rate of concussion in youth sports remains fairly low; but research suggests that because so many U.S. kids play sports, it translates to as many as 1.9 million concussions a year among 5- to 18-year-olds.

Parents and toddlers talked more when reading print books, and were more apt to work together to perform tasks like holding the book and turning pages, researchers found.

Researchers suggest guidelines for how and when parents should use electronic devices when their small children are competing for their time.

"It is sobering that in 2017, there were 144 police officers who died in the line of duty and about 1,000 active duty military throughout the world who died, whereas 2,462 school-age children were killed by firearms," the study’s senior author said.

Car seat guidelines have changed, and they'll keep your child safer, longer, the author of a new statement on car seat safety says.

The World Health Organization says e-cigarettes should not be used indoors.

If women didn't smoke during pregnancy, some 800 SIDS deaths a year could be prevented, according to a new report published online in the journal Pediatrics.

Speaking before Congress on Tuesday, Ethan Lindenberger of Norwalk, Ohio, said his mother believed online conspiracies about vaccines.

Researchers said they were surprised to see that parents’ sleep duration and sleep satisfaction were still decreased six years after a child’s birth.

Study findings point to the power of an insidious form of junk food marketing, in which companies pay social media influencers to feature their products, experts say.