Bed-sharing has no impact on children’s psychological development

Percentage of co-developing internalizing (INT) and externalizing (EXT) symptom trajectories class membership based on bed-sharing and solitary sleeping infants. Credit: Attachment & Human Development (2024). DOI: 10.1080/14616734.2024.2380427 Parental bed-sharing is unlikely to impact children’s psychological development, new research has found. The study from the University of Essex looked at nearly 17,000 British babies and tracked them for 11 years—finding kids who shared beds were happy and healthy. Dr. Ayten Bilgin, from the Department of Psychology, found no association between bed-sharing at 9 months and childhood emotional or behavioral problems. The practice is mired in controversy as some experts previously thought Read More