Of all the potentially modifiable influences affecting children’s development and mental health across the life course, none is more important than the quality of parenting and family life. In this position paper, we argue that parenting is fundamentally linked to the development of life skills that children need in order to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. We discuss key principles that should inform the development of a global research and implementation agenda related to scaling up evidence-based parenting support programs. Research over the past 50 years has shown that parenting support programs of varied intensity and delivery modality can improve a wide range of developmental, emotional, behavioral and health outcomes for parents and their children. Such findings have been replicated across culturally and socioeconomically diverse samples, albeit primarily in studies from Western countries. We highlight the evidence for the relevance of parenting interventions for attaining the SDGs globally, and identify the barriers to and strategies for achieving their scale-up. The implications of the global COVID-19 pandemic for the delivery of evidence-based parenting support are also discussed.

在整个生命过程中影响儿童发展和心理健康的所有可能改变的影响中，没有什么比育儿和家庭生活的质量更重要的了。在本立场文件中，我们认为养育子女与儿童实现联合国可持续发展目标所需的生活技能的发展有着根本的联系。我们讨论了关键原则，这些原则应有助于制定与扩大循证育儿支持计划有关的全球研究和实施议程。过去50年的研究表明，不同强度和分娩方式的育儿支持计划可以改善父母及其子女的一系列发育，情感，行为和健康状况。尽管主要在西方国家的研究中，但这些发现已在文化和社会经济差异样本中重复出现。我们重点介绍育儿干预与实现全球可持续发展目标的相关性的证据，并确定实现其规模扩大的障碍和战略。还讨论了全球COVID-19大流行对提供循证育儿支持的影响。