From the moment of birth, children are social creatures. Infants in all cultures develop an intense bond with their caregivers, a bond researchers call attachment. The experiences children have in the first years of life shape their sense of themsel...
Nurture begins in the womb as the fetus is exposed to various types of nutrition and agents that are potentially toxic. The significance of the prenatal environment was underscored in a longitudinal study of 10,000 families in England that began i...