Published four times a year, the journal features developmental, quantitative research on peer relationships and interpersonal factors that impact socioemotional development.

Originally attached to the Merrill-Palmer Institute in Detroit, the journal was founded in 1954 to promote and disseminate scientific information about child and family development and became a scientific journal in 1960.

[3] The associate editors are Hannah Schacter, René Veenstra, and Melanie Zimmer-Gembeck.

[4] Previous editors were Ralph E. Sloan (1954-1959), Martin L. Hoffman (1960-1980), Grover Whitehurst (1980), Eli Saltz (1981-1982), Carolyn Uhlinger Shantz (1982-2000), and Gary W. Ladd (2001-2024).

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