The TRICK collection · Volume 3 · Issue 1 · 2026
Parenting and AI
Human values. Intelligent tools. Growing families.
One hundred licensed readings on parenting, children and artificial intelligence, organized as 20 readings for each TRICK value. Generative AI, earlier agents and social robots remain distinct, with evidence scope and limitations visible.
An evidence map for family life
Keep human values
in view.
What should a family trust? Whose privacy and voice matter? How can children build judgment, work with others and care for people as AI becomes part of everyday life?
This volume brings together empirical studies, evidence syntheses and substantive design or ethical analyses. “Impactful” describes editorial relevance and the questions a reading helps examine; it is not a citation ranking or a promise of benefit.
Read the age group, setting, system type, methods and follow-up before drawing conclusions for your family. Earlier robots and voice agents offer context for today’s questions; their findings do not establish the effects of modern generative AI.
Know what each reading studies
- Direct parenting evidence32
- Directly addresses parents or caregiving, including parent studies, syntheses and audits of parenting advice.
- Child-facing evidence41
- Examines children or child-focused systems. Transfer to everyday family life must be assessed separately.
- Family implications27
- Design, ethics, stakeholder or technical evidence with child/family implications; household benefits are not assumed.
Each article appears once in this issue and has one primary TRICK home. A clear label identifies the AI system and the evidence’s applicability.
Browse by value
Five human questions.
Twenty readings per pathway. Begin with a question; follow it back to the original evidence.
What should our family trust?
Trust
AI advice, credibility, uncertainty and the difference between an answer and reliable evidence.
20 articlesWhose voice and rights come first?
Respect
Children’s dignity, privacy, consent, cultural context and fairness in AI systems.
20 articlesHow do we grow judgment alongside AI?
Independence
AI literacy, agency and learning skills that children can practise for themselves.
20 articlesWhat can we explore together?
Collaboration
Parent–child co-use, participatory design and connections between families, learning and care.
20 articlesWhat does caring mean when a machine responds?
Kindness
Empathy, social-emotional development, AI companionship and the value of human connection.
20 articlesEvidence you can inspect.
Original authors, journals, dates and DOIs remain attached to every paper. Each reading has a family guide, a source passage companion and an article-level Creative Commons license notice. TRICK placement and reading questions are editorial additions; the studies do not collectively test the entire framework.