The latest research on child development may hold the key to the parenting of the future.

Combining the expertise of its author a celebrated expert in parent-infant mental health and mother of two with the latest findings in gene-by-environment interactions, epigenetics, behavioural science, and attachment theory, Scientific Parenting describes how children s genes determine their sensitivity to good or bad parenting, how environmental cues can switch critical genes on or off, and how addictive tendencies and mental health problems can become hardwired into the human brain....