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Maslow Updated: Reworking of the famous psychological pyramid of needs puts parenting at the top
Caring for your children, feeding them, nurturing them, educating them and making sure they get off on the right foot in life -- all of the things that make parenting successful -- may actually be deep rooted psychological urges that we fulfill as pa...

Dogs\' family status depends on family\'s locale
Man's best friend might just be treated like any other animal depending on where the owners live. A new study found that people who think of animals as children tend to have a city background.

Use of decision-aid program increases safety for women experiencing abuse, researchers find
Intimate partner violence results in two million injuries among women in the US each year, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Researchers are reducing these numbers with a new Web-based program that helps women experiencin...

New twist on drug screening to treat common childhood cancer
Scientists have developed a new method of identifying drugs to treat children suffering from fatal cancers for which an effective treatment has not been found. Rather than developing a new drug from scratch, which is a complicated and time-consuming ...

Drug addicts get hooked via prescriptions, keep using \'to feel like a better person,\' research shows
If you want to know how people become addicted and why they keep using drugs, ask the people who are addicted. Thirty-one of 75 patients hospitalized for opioid detoxification told physicians they first got hooked on drugs legitimately prescribed for...

Male scientists regret parenthood decisions more than female counterparts, sociologist finds
Many scientists in academia bemoan the fact that their lifestyles do not allow them to have as many children as they would like. Surprisingly, male scientists harbor more regrets than female scientists, according to a new sociology study.

Victims of bullying suffer academically as well, psychologists report
Students who are bullied repeatedly do substantially worse in school, psychologists report. A high level of bullying was consistently associated with lower grades across the three years of middle school.

Gene scan finds link across array of childhood brain disorders
Mutations in a single gene can cause several types of developmental brain abnormalities that experts have traditionally considered different disorders. Researchers have now found those mutations through whole exome sequencing -- a new gene scanning t...

Homework wars: How can parents improve the odds of winning?
Children are more likely to do their homework if they see it as an investment, not a chore, according to new research.

Generation X more loyal to religion
New research has revealed that Gen-Xers are surprisingly loyal to their faith -- a finding that suggests the rising nonreligious tide in the United States may be leveling off.


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