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Early Childhood Matters 2025 launch

What do parents and other caregivers need for a good start?

Photo courtesy of Genaye Eshetu

Continuing the conversation on the wellbeing of parents and other caregivers, Early Childhood Matters 2025 dives deeper, featuring different perspectives: scientific, cultural, urban and more.

We need to talk about care: the needs of parents with young children often go unseen and unheard in public life and policy. They face growing pressure, are overworked, and their support systems are strained or disappearing. So what can we do to better support them?

The 2025 edition of Early Childhood Matters presents 34 compelling contributions that show how everyone can play a role in shaping a more caring society and rebuilding villages of support around parents.

Guided by those already leading the way, from neuroscientists to poets, and architects to trauma specialists, the 2025 issue offers bold, practical solutions that meaningfully support mothers, fathers and other caregivers, and the children they care for.

Because when we value and celebrate care, we create ripple effects that strengthen families, communities and societies for generations.

Join the live launch event online

Join us on 28 January, 3pm CET, as we launch Early Childhood Matters 2025 with an exciting set of speakers who contributed to this year’s journal:

  • Kesete Admasu, Current CEO at Big Win Philanthropy & Former Minister of Health, Ethiopia
  • Ana Carolina Barros Silva, Psychoanalyst and General Director of Casa de Marias – Instituição sem fins lucrativos, Brazil
  • Ruth Feldman, Leading Neuroscientist and Founder of the Center for Developmental Social Neuroscience at Reichman University, Israel
  • Catherine Monk, Leading Clinical Psychologist and Founder of the Perinatal Pathways Lab at Columbia University, USA
  • Andrés Moya, Technical Director at Semillas de Apego, Colombia
  • Moderated by Elissa Strauss, ECM guest editor and author of When You Care

Each bring a unique perspective, rooted in real-life experience of what a difference listening to new and expectant parents can make; not only for babies, toddlers and their caregivers, for everyone.