Spending time in nature not only boosts physical and mental well-being but also plays a critical role in shaping children's social and emotional skills. Moreover, outdoor activities can bring families ...

Star Parker, a columnist for The Daily Signal, is president of the Center for Urban Renewal and Education. An age-old conundrum regarding raising children is the issue of nature versus nurture. That ...

Aug. 17, 2005 — -- Identical twins generally are not separated during adoptions, but Chinese officials had no record that Lily and Gillian were related at the time of their adoption in 2000. As a ...

The longstanding debate over whether human capabilities and skills are shaped more by “nature” or “nurture” has been revitalized by recent advances in genetics, particularly in the use of polygenic ...

A traumatic event in a person's life can literally change the way their genes are expressed — affecting that person's development later in life, and possibly even the development of future generations ...