It's a common refrain among parents: "I wish I could send my kids to private school." The subtext, of course, is that expensive private schools give kids a better education, which leads to better career opportunities and a more successful life. But a new study shows that the advantages of private school disappear when controlling for socioeconomic factors.

This is the ultimate parent's guide to emergency preparedness for kids. Each of these scenarios should be discussed and every child should know what to do in the event of one of these scenarios.

DIY Family Photos are perfect for families on a budget. These tips and tricks will help you create professional-looking DIY Family Portraits without the high price. Awesome DIY Family Portrait Ideas to try

The sociologist Margaret Hagerman spent two years embedded in upper-middle-class white households, listening in on conversations about race. By Joe Pinsker. (Sept. 4, 2018)

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Providing dignity and basic need support in a Harrisburg area school district.

Vaccination rates appear to have increased following the Federal Government's decision to reduce welfare payments for unvaccinated children. For a month now, families who refuse or delay vaccinations have had their Family Tax Benefit Part A payments reduced by $28 a fortnight for each child. This follows the No Jab, No Play policy that came in to effect in New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria at the end of 2017.

Smacking is harmful to children's mental health and should be banned, school psychologists say. The Association of Educational Psychologists has tabled a motion to the TUC Conference calling for physical punishment to be outlawed. Presently, although corporal punishment is banned in schools, parents can "smack" or physically chastise a child as long as it is deemed "reasonable".

It doesn’t make you look authoritative. It makes you look out of control to your kids. It makes you look weak.

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Sweden has seen a rise in reports of child and forced marriages, according to a hotline established by the County Administrative Board in Östergötland County, located in southeastern Sweden. At least 130 phone calls were made in 2018 to a support hotline that seeks to help children and young people who have been forced into marriage. This is a massive increase compared with the 101 calls that were made between 2014 and 2018, according to Swedish public broadcaster SVT.

In recent years behaviours on university campuses have created widespread unease. Safe spaces, trigger warnings, and speech codes. Demands for speakers to be disinvited. Words construed as violence and liberalism described as ‘white supremacy’. Students walking on eggshells, too scared to speak their minds. Controversial speakers violently rebuked – from conservative provocateurs such as Milo Yiannopoulos to serious sociologists such as Charles Murray, to left-leaning academics such as Bret Weinstein.

Pregnant women with high levels of DDT in their blood are more likely to have children who develop autism, according to NIEHS grantees.

China's net giant Tencent is introducing a real-name registration system for one of its popular games.

Existing studies have determined that many factors play a role in how much money a person will make. Some are very obvious, such as education and occupation, while some are less so – taller people earn more, for example. Our study was the first, however, to create a validated rank ordering of these factors (age, occupation, education, geographic location, gender, race, ethnicity, height, age, delay discounting) using machine learning.

New research has found that parenthood is associated with harsher moral judgments and greater social conservatism. The study has been published in the journal Personality and Individual Differences. “Parenting is obviously very important to humans, and it makes sense from an evolutionary perspective that parenthood would influence your motivations and priorities. Yet there is relatively little research on the relationships between parenthood and social attitudes, and even less that examines parenting motivation as a psychological factor,” said study author Nicholas Kerry of Tulane University.

A study shows higher risk of fatal lung disease in adults exposed to cigarette smoke in childhood.

A new study has found that testosterone and cortisol levels are associated with parental caregiving quality in fathers. The findings appear in the journal Psychoneuroendocrinology. “Father involvement in parenting is on the rise, but research on quality of caregiving in fathers is very scarce. And although the role of hormones in parents is becoming more clear in the past decade, in fathers it has hardly been investigated,” said study author Peter A. Bos of Utrecht University.

A Christian dad accused of letting his baby die due to his religious beliefs has claimed he’s being persecuted for his faith. Seth Welch and his wife Tatiana Fusari, both 27, have been charged with murder after allegedly letting 10-month-old Mary die of malnutrition at their farm in Solon Township, Michigan.

Children face a lower risk of suicidal behavior if their parents are religious, according to new research published in JAMA Psychiatry. The study found that parents’ belief in the importance of religion was associated with a lower risk for suicidal behavior by their children, regardless of a child’s own beliefs.