A father who has balanced his own chequebook for forty years says “I’ve got it” a little too fast when his daughter offers to look

There’s a woman at my local coffee place in Bangkok, somewhere north of seventy, who laughs like she’s hearing every joke for the first time.

Sweden keeps a national record of who owns a dog and when researchers linked that register to 12 years of mortality data on 3.4 million

You’ve probably met at least one of them. A neighbour, maybe. An aunt. A colleague’s mother you sat next to at a wedding once. Someone

The saying is short and it lands hard: a child left outside the circle will set fire to the whole thing, just to feel some

The warm, slowed-down voice we reach for with an aging parent can carry a message we never meant to send. Here is what happened when researchers watched what came next.

We are writers and editors reading the research on family relationships, not clinicians, psychologists, or family therapists. What follows is reflection on published work, much

We are writers reading the research here, not clinicians, psychologists, or neurologists. What follows is reflection on studies of how minds age, most of them

There is a familiar picture of the adult without children. Free weekends, no school run, savings untouched by university fees, a diary that answers to

The responsible eldest, the diplomatic middle, the free-spirited baby — it is one of our most beloved theories of character. Held up against more than twenty thousand siblings, almost none of it survives.

We are writers and editors, not clinicians, psychologists, or child-development researchers. What follows is our reading of the research on childhood and resilience, not advice

You can be in a room full of people who like you and still feel completely unseen. Not because they are unkind, but because the