Let's begin with the new evidence. Several papers in this Special Issue provide new evidence to improve knowledge about how best to support parents in their role as children's primary care providers. Neill and colleagues (2013)) used grounded theory to uncover the complex and often anxiety-producing experience of parents in deciding whether or not to seek help from health professionals for acute childhood illnesses. Their findings compel us to look more closely at how health professionals might (unconsciously) negatively judge parents for their help-seeking behaviors and provide insufficient opportunities for positive learning. Interestingly, and perhaps not coincidentally, the adverse consequences for parents of negative judgments by health professionals was a prominent theme in the grounded theory study conducted by Ravindran and colleagues (2013)) in India with parents of burn-injured children. The findings reveal the trajectory, sources and effects of parents’ experience of blame during the year following a child's serious burn injury. Given the robust literature on the profound effects of parents’ mental states on children's health and development (Pakenham and Cox, 2012), the two studies point to the urgent need for nursing interventions to ensure that parents receive the emotional and psychological support to overcome fear of criticism or feelings of blame and to promote positive self-efficacy in caring for children's minor or major illnesses. The study by Ladak and colleagues (2013)) provides compelling evidence that the benefits of family-centered rounds for pediatric intensive care patients translate across cultural and economic contexts. However, the challenges of changing health professional-centric routines also remain the same across contexts. The study by Murphey (2013)) explores the views of low income pregnant and parenting adolescent women about oral health for themselves and their children. The themes that emerged highlight the significant oral health needs of these young women and suggest an important role for nurses in ensuring that pregnant and parenting adolescent women have access to oral health assessment, education, and oral care services.