African American and White parents differ in their use of parental control strategies. This study examined the degree to which these differences are related to socialization goals or socioeconomic factors. Using a sample of 320 parents, the authors found that socialization goals for child...

The author responds to an article that proposes a mechanism to statistically test the difference in the relative contribution of the size of each parent to a child's birth weight and rate of weight gain during infancy—two factors associated with the development of obesity—urging...

This article presents findings from a randomized controlled trial of 1,279 healthy newborns in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, on the effects of swaddling—the tight, prolonged binding of infants—on development.