China is shrinking as more couples are making a conscious choice not to have babies, a challenge for President Xi Jinping's ...

One of the top reasons that pets end up in shelters is that owners are expecting a baby. Somewhere along the line, a rumor started that you can’t have both — a new baby and a pet. But that’s simply ...

“Motherese” is the cutesy language we use around preverbal infants. It serves important roles in language development and emotional coregulation. But why do we use it with animals? Domestication ...