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Having rich childhood friends is linked to a higher salary as an adult
A study of Facebook friend networks has shown that people from low-income households are more like to grow up to make a higher salary if they had wealthier friends as children. Children who grow up in low-income households but who make friends that come from higher-income homes are more likely to have higher salaries in adulthood than those who have fewer such friends.
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Isolated kids become lonely, unsociable adults: Research suggests social isolation in childhood damages little-known brain circuit that is responsible for regulating social behavior in adulthood - Thriveworks
A new study “A prefrontal-paraventricular thalamus circuit requires juvenile social experience to regulate adult sociability in mice” suggests that social isolation in childhood has a harmful impact on adult brain functioning and more specifically, in an area of the brain that’s responsible for regulating social behavior. In addition to bringing attention to the impact that today’s isolated world might have on children in their adulthood...
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Seven Positive Childhood Experiences with Adulthood Benefits
Adults who self-report more positive childhood experiences (PCEs) tend to have a lower likelihood of clinical depression or poor adult mental health — and a higher probability of healthy adulthood interpersonal relationships — according to a new survey-based study from Johns Hopkins University.
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The Children Growing up in a ‘Motherless Village’
In Indonesia there are areas where almost all young mothers go to work abroad. Indonesians call them the "motherless villages".
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To grow up healthy, children need to sit less and play more
Children under five must spend less time sitting watching screens, or restrained in prams and seats, get better quality sleep and have more time for active play if they are to grow up healthy, according to new guidelines issued by the World Health Organization (WHO). “Achieving health for all means doing what is best for health right from the beginning of people’s lives,” says WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. “Early childhood is a period of rapid development and a time when family lifestyle patterns can be adapted to boost health gains.”
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“I saw things children shouldn’t see” – surviving a troubled childhood
Why are some people able to become happy, well-adjusted adults even after growing up with violence or neglect? Their life stories – from 1950s Hawaii to the orphanages of Romania – could provide answers that will help more children to thrive. By Lucy Maddox.
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I was a Child Bride of Satan
My slide into damnation began where all good things are found, a garage sale. By Melissa Johnson.
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Uncorrected Personality Traits
Robyn Hitchcock
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This Is Where Your Childhood Memories Went
Your brain needs to forget in order to grow. By Ferris Jabr.
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Elon Musk’s Quotes From His Rolling Stone Profile Are…Uh…Dark
Rolling Stone just published a bit of a stargazing profile of Elon Musk and in it the Silicon Valley rocket boy comes across as....uh.....dark. Here are just a few of his quotes from the piece. By Raphael Orlove.
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Cowpie, gruel and midnight feasts: food in popular children’s literature
Food is everywhere in children’s stories, from fairytales to Enid Blyton, Billy Bunter and Desperate Dan – but it may not always be as innocent as it seems. By Michael Flanagan.
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Soft
Simon Ellis
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Researcher: Body image problems now the norm for girls and common among boys starting by age 8
New research published in Development and Psychopathology has found that physical maturation and teasing predict the growth of appearance-related anxiety in adolescent girls and boys in Australia. The study found a “steep growth” in appearance-related anxiety symptoms in the first half of the teenage years.
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