Adolescent deliberate self-harm (DSH) has been found to be associated with a range of bio-psycho-social factors. Simultaneous investigations of these factors enable more robust estimation of the independent effect of a specific risk factor by adjusting for a more complete set of covariates....

This article describes how a new budding method opens up the avenue for debate to generate ideas and thoughts around its ethical grounding, especially with its application on children. This purpose should be addressed to ensure a pluralistic ethical approach to dealing with children as...

Social interactions are the everyday give and take conversations that occur depending on situations and purposes. During a typical preschool day, there are countless opportunities for children to interact, communicate and play with one another. A social interaction may include saying “Salam”...

This Article deals with a unique intersection between civil (tort and/or contract) law, criminal law, family and child law, and international law. Perhaps one of the most traumatic crises that can occur to an individual is having his child abducted by the other parent and taken to another...

This article explores changes to the Uniform Probate Code relating to the parentage relationships existing between children born as the result of assisted reproductive technologies, their biological parents, and their birth or intended parents. Inheritance rights, including the right to be...

This report evaluates sources of international child well-being data to assess their suitability for supplementing national and transnational data sources to inform policy. The review of the leading surveys of children (and surveys of households with children) summarises the information...

This paper studies the effects of day care exposure on behavioral disorders and mental and physical health at various ages during childhood. We draw on a unique set of merged population register data from Sweden over the period 1999-2008. This includes merged information at the individual level...

We analyse response patterns to an important survey of school children, exploiting rich auxiliary information on respondents' and non-respondents' cognitive ability that is correlated both with response and the learning achievement that the survey aims to measure. The survey is the Programme for...

We elicit adolescent girl's attitudes towards intimate partner violence and child marriage using purposefully collected data from rural Bangladesh. Alongside direct survey questions, we conduct list experiments to elicit true preferences for intimate partner violence and marriage before age...