Harvard Pop Center faculty member Laura Kubzansky, PhD, and colleagues are authors of a longitudinal study in Social Science & Medicine that has found that those who recalled receiving parental warmth during childhood were more likely to also self report higher levels of well-being—including emotional, psychological and social—as adults. They were also less likely to engage in behaviors such as drug use and smoking. The findings point to the potential importance of interventions designed to promote positive parenting practices in the pursuit of improving overall population health and well-being. Learn more in this news piece…