Launch of Growing Up in Ireland Report - Parenting and Infant Development

Venue: ESRI, Whitaker Square, Sir John Rogerson’s Quay, Dublin 2

Growing Up in Ireland will be launching its latest report - 'Parenting and Infant Development' by Elizabeth Nixon, Lorraine Swords and Aisling Murray on Monday 4th November at 11am.

The report will be launched by Frances Fitzgerald T.D., Minister for Children and Youth Affairs.

This report is concerned with infants’ development at nine months of age and how their development is associated with parenting within families. The report also examines factors that are associated with parental sensitivity and stress in families.

Growing Up in Ireland is a Government study. The Department of Children and Youth Affairs is funding it in association with the Department of Social Protection and the Central Statistics Office. The Department of Children and Youth Affairs is overseeing and managing the study, which is being carried out by a consortium of researchers led by the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) and Trinity College Dublin.