In this column, PROFESSOR DASARATH CHETTY explores the alarming rates of father absence in South Africa, examining its impact on children's emotional and social development. He discusses the historica ...

You probably grew up in an emotionally neglectful family and learned at an early age that your emotions were irrelevant or ...

You are not broken you’re just carrying more than your share. For adults navigating the heavy terrain of emotional trauma or ...

Individuals with greater childhood trauma experienced and expressed fewer positive emotions—and more negative ones—during ...

Before reporting families to the child welfare system, educators should ask how to support their needs better.

With alarming rates of childhood trauma, educators and students alike will benefit from a law requiring school staff to ...

Mothers who were maltreated as children are more likely to develop anxious romantic attachment styles, which in turn are ...

One young woman told the study she could not do any homework at home because ‘it’s not a safe environment for me’.

A child who faces emotional neglect feels that their innermost experiences are not noticed or valued. Over time, that sense of invisibility leads to self-protective strategies.

Their study of 25,252 adult twins in Sweden, published in JAMA Psychiatry, found that those who reported one or more trauma in childhood — physical or emotional neglect or abuse, rape, sexual ...