A recent study of 3,000 parents revealed that each summer is riddled with 84 bickers plaguing a family. Two arguments breaking out every day add up to 14 per week and 84 during the sex-week holiday. Full story

During the past ten years fanciful British parents ran up quite a list of highly uncommon names they gave their children, sometimes borrowing words from the worlds of cars or fashion to use them as names! Full story

British black family gave birth to a baby girl with white skin, blue eyes and fair hair. Doctors say that the newly born is not an albino. The family had three children who, like their parents, have black skin. Full story

Influential Health journal has published the study by Australian scientist revealing that the more children and teenagers are exposed to TV and computers, the worse their relationships with their parents and peers. Full story

A research conducted by Cadet150 that involved 2,000 parents revealed that out of every four parents one feels too diffident to ladle out discipline on their children for various reasons. Full story

Extra worries, extra arrangements, but extra fun! Still thinking twins is something extraordinary? Not in Hollywood! Geniuspregnancy.com tells you about celebrity parents of twins. Full story

Increased direct TV exposure and household TV use can damage a positive childhood development and interaction with parents. The research conducted by scientists from Tulane University is one of the few to look at the link between TV exposure and aggression in young children. Full story

Exhausted by sleepless nights, mothers often take their babies to sleep with them in bed, thinking this is a safe practice. The data, however, shows that 50 percent of babies who died from sudden death syndrome were in bed with their parents. Full story

British scientists say that parents may keep their children out of troubles by allowing them to drink some alcohol at home. Teenagers who try to fetch alcohol by themselves are more likely to engage in violence-related situations or other forms of illegal behavior. Full story

Parents who have babies should cut down on watching TV because it's bad for the language development in their babies, recent study says. With the TV turned on, parents talk to their babies less, so babies get worse at acquiring speaking skills. Researches studied how the TV influences the babies aged from two months to four years old and found that every extra hour of a TV turned on slashed the number of words the parents told to their babies by 500-1000. Full story

Swedish economists have calculated how much parents spend on their children from the moment they are born until the graduation exam (Swedish students graduate at 19). According to their calculations, average parents spend 100 thousand Euro per child. If there are two children in the family, then expenses fall a little bit and average to 90 thousand Euros ($144 thousand). Full story

Mother-to-daughter and father-to-son links in a study of child obesity are discovered by medical scientists, BBC reports. Researchers say that genetics is unlikely to be playing a role in the issue. Instead, they insist on psychological factors. Scientists from Plymouth Medical School, U.S. have put forward this conclusion as a result of their study of 226 families, where it was discovered that obese mothers were 10 times more likely to have obese daughters, and for fathers and sons, there was a six-fold rise. Full story