Research performed by a University of Michigan professor and fellow colleagues found that parents often do not use booster seats on children when carpooling. Such a practice is very dangerous if a serious crash should occur while on the road.

With Australia’s Attorneys-General getting set to discuss not only the R18+ rating for games, but ways to make Facebook and other social networking sites safer for children, is it the responsibility of Facebook, parents or the Government?

Teenage school students are running riot on Facebook, participating in groups that crudely rate the sexual performance of various group members, with parents, schools and Facebook either unaware, unwilling or unsuccessful in taking proactive educational action.

A new version of McAfee Family Protection refines parents' ability to control and track their children's Internet usage.

As Christmas approaches, many kids will soon be unwrapping video games from under their Christmas tree. One company has released a set of videos to ensure kids are only playing the games Santa gave them.

According to U.S. researchers from Utah and California, having children around helps to reduce blood pressure in adults, But, extra children doesn't mean extra low blood pressure.

Dr. Markella Rutherford conducted an analysis based on parenting articles from the 1920s to the mid-2000s. She found that children have more freedoms within the home, but less independence outside of it.

Three out of four Australian children spend extra time online and using mobile phones during the school holidays, with almost half of them devoting an additional three hours or more each day on their mobile or surfing the Internet when they’re not at school.

A University of Massachusetts study has shown what happens to the quality and quantity of interactions between parents and young children when the television is on in the background.

Forget generation Y, generation X, or any other generation for that matter, it’s generation M – that’s M for mobile – that has apparently jumped right into bed with the mobile phone craze at the early age of four to seven, with the help and consent of their parents.