What science tells us
What does the latest, best scientific evidence tell us about what’s best for children?
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In few, if any, parts of the world is our approach to family breakdown, or to dealing with families in crisis, based on actual scientific evidence of what’s best for children and families.
Too often, we impose too-late ‘interventions’ instead of offering up-front, accessible support and education. Far too often, these interventions are based on a legal approach – family law – which is not the appropriate tool if we’re aiming to look after the health and wellbeing of our children. In fact, not only are such legal interventions too late and not appropriate, but, they’re actually harmful to the very children and families they’re supposed to protect.
In this section, Evidence, you can access a wide range of information, including the results of some of the best scientific research from around the globe.
We will review the available research and data and tell you what statistics you can rely on. In a field often dominated by ideology rather than scientific evidence – by actively promoted ‘fake news’, if you will – we’ll try to help sort the wheat from the chaff.
If you know of better evidence, or more recent research, you’re welcome to share it with us too.
What does the latest, best scientific evidence tell us about what’s best for children?
Read moreScientific research shows that, on average, children do better after a family break-up with co-parenting than with a single parent.
Read more[Children are] nested in their family, their peers, their close social relationships … but that is nested in … their
Read moreParental care may be embedded in the biology of human males and in many other animals. That’s what is suggested
Read moreWith his extensive experience, Dr Gabor Maté argues that addiction needs to be viewed in a different way. He sees
Read moreWith all the doom and gloom in the world today, and the reporting of tragedies unfolding around the globe, it’s
Read moreWhat does science tell us about parental “instincts” – about maternal, or even paternal, instincts? This National Geographic article (in
Read moreRichard Bentall sets out the view that poor mental health is not a disease or stigma. In a Guardian article
Read moreIn September 2023, Jude Eyre of the UK’s Nuffield Family Justice Observatory (NFJO) summarised for a legal conference their 2022
Read moreIn November 2023, the UK’s Family Solutions Group launched its second major report: “A Child’s Right to Matter”. It is
Read moreIn this TED talk in 2015 Nadine Burke Harris talks about the link between adverse childhood experiences, toxic stress and increased risks
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