In England and Wales, 53% of live births were born within marriage in 2013, compared to 59% in 2003 and 93% in 1963 [1] . The average age at marriage has increased and more children are born to women older than 30 years. In the UK, there were 2.0 million lone parents with dependent children in 2015. This figure has grown steadily from 1.9 million in 2005. Lone parents with dependent children re...

Thirty-nine girls aged 6 to 12 participated in this study, each having been referred for evaluation of suspected child sexual abuse. The study investigated the prevalence of depression in the sample as well as the relationship of depressive symptoms to severity of abuse and potential mediator variables. The Child Behaviour Checklist and Child Depression Inventory were used to asses the severity...

OBJECTIVE A new condition, "child affected by parental relationship distress" (CAPRD), was introduced in the DSM-5. A relational problem, CAPRD is defined in the chapter of the DSM-5 under "Other Conditions That May Be a Focus of Clinical Attention." The purpose of this article is to explain the usefulness of this new terminology. METHOD A brief review of the literature establishing that chil...

There is a long history of opposition to allowing parents to use biotechnology in order to select the traits of their children. Jurgen Habermas’s book, The Future of Human Nature, is an important addition to this literature. Habermas, like C.S. Lewis and Paul Ramsey before him, is concerned that children’s futures are fixed by parental choices and that genetic selection or modification treats c...

In England and Wales, 53% of live births were born within marriage in 2013, compared to 59% in 2003 and 93% in 1963 [1] . The average age at marriage has increased and more children are born to women older than 30 years. In the UK, there were 2.0 million lone parents with dependent children in 2015. This figure has grown steadily from 1.9 million in 2005. Lone parents with dependent children re...

Results from 23 studies examining associations between therapeutic relationship variables and treatment outcomes in child and adolescent therapy were reviewed with meta-analytic procedures. Results indicated that the overall strength of the relationship-outcome associations was modest and quite similar to results obtained with adults. This modest association was moderated by 1 substantive facto...