Family dynamics, parenting practices, and parent/caregiver–child relationships have a formative effect and long-term implications for children’s health, well-being, and socioemotional, cognitive, and neurobiological development, including in the later stages of life. 

Family connectedness, communication, and relationships with parents and family members also provide important role models and contribute to developing identity and adopting skills and behaviours in adolescence. This Special Issue takes a multidisciplinary stance and aims to collect theoretical, methodological, and empirical papers on topics related to the following: the influence of family type, structure, and dynamics; the gendered aspect of parenting and care for children and adolescents, i.e. the role of mothers’ and fathers’ involvement and parenting practices, and their implications for child/adolescent development, health, and well-being; the involvement of extended family members in care for children and 
adolescents.

The Journal Children invites contributions of research articles or comprehensive reviews for consideration and publication in the Special Issue Parenting and Child/Adolescent Development. Children is an open-access journal—research articles, reviews, and other content are published online immediately after acceptance. 

Guest Editors

• Dr. Elitsa Dimitrova
  Department of Demography, Institute for Population and Human Studies—Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria
• Prof. Dr. Apolinaras Zaborskis
  Department of Preventive Medicine & Health Research Institute, Faculty of Public Health, Medical Academy, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, A.Mickevičiaus 9, LT-44307 Kaunas, Lithuania