Recent debates in the media and in the academic press have focused on boys' problems. Differential achievements of boys and girls, and boys' emotional and behavioral problems are suggested to be the effect of the feminisation ...

Research on the impact of parental smoking on the development of smoking in their off-spring has primarily focused on the direct (modeling) effects of smoking behavior of parents. Still, parental smoking might also have ...

Implicitly presupposed conceptions of childhood were reconstructed in Dutch and English scientific publications about the desirability and organisation of a separate criminal law for children and youngsters. Starting from ...

This longitudinal study investigated the social adjustment of children who were involved in bullying. Participants (189 girls and 328 boys) were assessed when they were in primary school (M age = 11 years) and three years ...

Most theoretical models emphasize the impact of inept parenting in childhood and the increasing role of deviant friends on delinquent behaviour in early adolescence. In this transition phase, parenting behaviours might ...