Science news articles about 'parental control'

  • Youths see all parental control negatively when there's a lot of it

    ... has found that young people feel differently about two types of parental control, generally viewing a type ... make this distinction and view both types of parental control negatively. The study, conducted in the United ...
  • Video: YouTube's Parental Controls

    Google has unveiled a new parental control feature on their video sharing site YouTube to help filter sexual explicit material from children. Kelly Wallace reports.
  • Parental controls on embryonic development?

    ... are inert, so embryonic development is largely controlled by parental factors. The activation of the zygotic genome ... 1st in the journal Developmental Cell suggests that the reach of parental control in the embryo may be longer than we thought ...
  • New study: Overbearing parents foster obsessive children

    ... new study has found that parental control directly influences whether a child will develop a harmonious or obsessive ... , which in this case was piano, saxophone, skiing or swimming. "The more controlling parents are, the harder it is for the child to have a harmonious passion ...
  • Higher drinking age linked to less binge drinking... except in college students

    ... are made up of young, mostly unmarried people — with no parental control and no spouse to check in with — they may be more likely to drink to excess than people of the same age who live ...
  • Selling Data on What Kids Say

    Parental Control Software Company Collecting Children's Chat Info and Selling to Other Firms for Marketing Purposes
  • Parents just don't understand

    ... States and China. However, there may be some contexts in which the effect of parental control is stronger in the West than in East Asian ... over them. In addition, the negative effects of parental control over children's academic learning may be stronger in the West ...
  • New UAB study finds gender divide in children's use of cell phone features

    ... said. "Parents need to have a good conversation with their child about the cell phone because it's much harder to control children's cell-phone activities unless they set rules or place parental controls on the phones ...
  • From music to sports: Autonomy fosters passion among kids

    ... professor at the Université de Montréal, parental control can predict whether a child develops ... Québec à Montreal and McGill University. "We found that controlling adults can foster obsessive passion in their children ...
  • Progress made in addressing food marketing to children, but challenges remain

    ... phones and so on, undermining any likely parental controls. We need a system that supports, rather than hinders, the efforts of parents to prevent obesity in their children. You cannot ...
  • Parenting study: Italians strict, French moderate, Canadians lenient

    ... by teens from all three countries, yet perception of parental control contrasted between Italy and Canada. Of all three ... reduced requirements and disciplinary constraints. "Our study found parental control is dictated by social codes and culture ...
  • Family-based treatment may be better for teens with anorexia

    ... were enrolled in a family-based treatment that promoted parental control of weight regain while restoring healthy family functioning. Each received 24 ...
  • Postdoc fellow wins neurobiology prize

    ... for Neurobiology. In his award-winning essay, “Parental Control Over the Brain,” Gregg explained how he and his team at Harvard figured out how mother- and father ...
  • Contact with dads drops when women ovulate

    ... may be motivated by an unconscious motive to avoid male control at a time when the women are most fertile. But a more primal impulse ... in conversations with fathers could not be attributed to an impulse to avoid all parental control during ovulation. In fact, the researchers ...
  • Evolutionary psychology: Why daughters don't call their dads

    ... in conversations with fathers could not be attributed to an impulse to avoid all parental control during ovulation. In fact, the researchers found that women actually increased their calling to their mothers during ...

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