The Department of Human Development and Family Science (HDFS) took root in child management and family living courses that first appeared in the Department of Household Economics in the early 1920s.

Balancing checkbooks? Cooking healthy food? Raising kids and diapering babies? Building healthy friendships? A lot of those basic skills we call "adulting"? There used to be a name for the class that ...

Managed by LifeStance Health. Your call or email may go to a representative. Jearilyn Singleton is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in North Carolina who has been practicing since 2021. She ...

Parents and caregivers of school-aged children are all too familiar with the after-school conversation that sounds a little something like: When these conversations are purposeful and strategic, they ...

A recent Cornell study found that 27% of adults are estranged from a family member. Research from Ohio State finds that 26% of fathers are estranged from an adult child—and that fathers are 22% more ...

For parents, carers and teachers, it’s often tempting to base our thinking on a child’s development around what we understand as “normal”. Much of the time we do this without thinking, describing a ...