11 7 Health, Disease and Mortality 7.1. Health behaviors 7.2. The issue of vaccination 7.3. The age 4 health check 7.4. Laterality 7.5. Child size 7.6. Vision and myopia 7.7. Physical activity 7.8. Eating behavior 7.9. Anorexia 7.10. Obesity 7.11. Sleep 7.12. Dreaming 7.13. Consumption of psychoactive products 7.14. Children’s road safety 7.15. Emotions, emotional development and emotional intelligence 7.16. Hyperactivity 7.17. Suicide 7.18. Autism 7.19. Mortality
12 8 Socialization and Antisociality 8.1. Lying 8.2. Lying in parents 8.3. Antisociality 8.4. Abuse 8.5. Sexual abuse 8.6. Exposure to domestic violence 8.7. Foster care 8.8. Parental usage of psychoactive substances 8.9. Discord and separation of parents 8.10. Peer influence
13 9 Activities and Leisure 9.1. Play: from act to thought 9.2. Sports activities: Homo Ludens… Citius, Altius, Fortius… Bread and games… 9.3. The digital child and the issue of screens 9.4. Video games 9.5. The use of telephones 9.6. Social networks (TikTok, Snapchat, Facebook, Instagram, etc.) 9.7. Music
14 10 Emerging Issues 10.1. Children living in same-sex parent families 10.2. Homeless children 10.3. Migrants 10.4. Children of military personnel 10.5. Disaster psychology (wars, bombings, tsunamis, earthquakes) 10.6. Political influences 10.7. The environment (neighborhood, nature, city) 10.8. Cyberbullying 10.9. Covid-19
15 Conclusion C.1. Awareness of the early influences (positive and negative) of the prenatal and postnatal (fetal, microbiota) environments C.2. Early development of certain perceptual and cognitive skills C.3. New concepts in the field of cognition C.4. The need to develop an integrative approach C.5. A spiral causality produced by interactions C.6. At the heart of self-endangerment: the lack of sensitivity to loss C.7. Gender differences, gender and stereotypes C.8. The family environment, again and always C.9. Historical developments C.10. New research themes generated by societal developments
16 Appendix: Definitions of Some Concepts Used in this Book A.1. Phylogenesis/ontogenesis A.2. Factor/marker A.3. Epigenetic factors A.4. Externalized and internalized behavioral disorders
17 References
18 Index
List of Tables
1 Chapter 1Table 1.1. Average age at end of education in FranceTable