The dirty little secret about family courts – where kids and parents who’ve entered the child welfare system end up – is that they often make things worse, especially for the youngest children -- from newborns to five-year-olds....
ALPENA - Alpena Regional Medical Center will be hosting a presentation about adverse childhood experiences with speaker Dr. Vincent J. Felitti, who is the co-principal investigator of the adverse childhood experiences study, which involves ongoing...
On an early summer night in 1944, on the wooded shoulder of a rural Massachusetts highway, a man in a rumpled brown suit wandered in the shadows. Whenever a car passed, he dropped to the ground and lay flat. His hair was matted, his face...
Anne Roberson walks a quarter-mile down the road each day to her mailbox in the farming town of Exeter, deep in California's Central Valley. Her daily walk and housekeeping chores are her only exercise, and her weight has remained stubbornly...
More and more, researchers who study violence among romantic partners are starting to examine the unique issues faced by teens in violent relationships. In much of that work, researchers have focused on white and African American teens. Because...
“I’m starting to feel upset with you,” said the only man in a room full of women. He glared at me, his arms and legs crossed. I was halfway through my presentation about child sexual abuse. Stopping for a...
The National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health has launched an updated and enhanced edition of its 50-State Policy Tracker, a unique online tool for comparing safety net policies that...
Editor's Note: This article was adapted from a blog posted by the author, Pamela Wible, MD. It is being published on Medscape with the permission of the author. Dr Wible notes that she was once a suicidal physician. Now an expert in medical...
When it comes to marijuana laws, the Justice Department is now treating American Indian tribes the way it treats states that have legalized pot. The move, announced in December, has inadvertently sparked interest in the marijuana business....
If you have siblings, you probably think that your parents liked one kid best — and you're probably right. Scientists say the family pecking order does affect children, but not always in the way you might think. The vast majority of...
A poll conducted last year by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Harvard School of Public Health found that 1 in 4 people had experienced a “great deal” of stress in the past month. “These stressed-out people...
You’re in the kitchen. It’s a Saturday morning, still dark outside. Your partner, three-year-old son, and the family dog are all sound asleep at the back of the house. You’ve put the coffee pot on, are making...
Three years ago, The Los Angeles Times published a feel-good story on the Little Free Library movement. The idea is simple: A book lover puts a box or shelf or crate of books in their front yard. Neighbors browse, take one, and return later...
The three towers that make up the Dallas County jail are cramped and crowded, and jailers struggle to fit more than 6,000 inmates inside. But there’s one isolated section in the West Tower that’s sparsely populated. Many cells sit...
Four bills recently introduced in the Minnesota legislature would re-direct policymakers' focus to c h ild trauma, brain development and adverse childhood experiences. Influenced by the the State's data on the prevalence of ACEs and other...