We report on important and high-quality research on how family influences child development, both social/emotional and cognitive. We write for parents, practitioners and policy makers.
We are developing new ways to communicate child development knowledge to parents in diverse communities across the world. We have formed a partnership with the World Association for Infant Mental Health (WAIMH), which has a huge global network of practitioners working within communities. We are building topic-specific global networks of researchers and practitioners from different cultures, to learn together about child development in a culturally diverse context and to support projects within individual communities to interpret and communicate the research to parents. The project is starting with a global survey on what topics of child development to build the first global networks around.
This project is owned by the not-for-profit Child and Family Blog Corporation in Maryland, USA. It is financed and directed by an Academic Council.
We started in 2015 as a project with Jacobs Foundation and University of Cambridge, to explain recent research findings to lay audience of parents, practitioners and policy makers.
With nearly 400 articles so far, the website currently receives 25,000 visitors each month and growing. Most visitors discover the blog as they search for information about child development topics on an internet search engine (i.e., Google).
In 2021, the Blog moved out of the Jacobs Foundation into a purpose-built not-for-profit organisation in the USA, Child & Family Blog Corporation. Thirty leading child development academics came together to fund the Blog and participate in a newly established Academic Council. In its first year, this Council helped to devise projects that will utilize the website as a foundation for transmitting scientific knowledge and a vehicle for extending this communication beyond just the internet.
The Academic Council develops new communication ideas for the Child & Family Blog. It has working groups on fatherhood, adolescence, early learning, and family law. The Council also funds the core operation of the Blog, each member contributing $100/month.