On May 5, Princeton University and the Brookings Institution released the spring 2015 issue of The Future of Children . The title of the issue is “ Policies to Promote Child Health .” Also released on May 5 was a...
A service evaluation at The Christie NHS Foundation Trust in Manchester, England, has shown the benefit of rapid stress management techniques (RSMTs) to help cancer patients who experience 'procedure-related' stress. Cancer ...
Local parenting group helps relationships grow. First in a two-part series. Rooted in Relationships is a statewide program that helps Nebraska communities support the social and emotional development of children from birth through age 8....
Each year police kill a certain number of civilians. And every year the FBI puts out the Supplemental Homicide Report that's meant to provide an accurate count of those deaths. But it doesn't. "I would rate it somewhere between...
Nearly 2.7 million American children have to cope with the incarceration of one or both of their parents, according to 2010 data from the Pew Charitable Trusts. A growing body of research informs concerned policymakers by showing the extraordinary...
What’s the value of black lives when it comes to housing discrimination? A Brooklyn property developer answered that question recently when writer D. W. Gibson spoke with him for New York magazine about his real-estate...
There are parents, and then there are parents. There are plenty of folks who do an outstanding job of nurturing, protecting and guiding their children to become healthy, successful adults. For these people, excellent parenting is a high priority in...
A landmark first step was taken today to insure that all public schools in the United States be legally required to address the unique learning needs of children affected by adverse childhood experiences. A class action suit on behalf of...
At schools that offer comprehensive sex education, students tend to get the biology and the basics — they'll learn about sexually transmitted diseases and pregnancy, how to put a condom on a banana and the like. But some public health...
Doctors see disease and they think about genes and germs, molecules and chemicals. But there’s a new recommendation from the neuroscience lab: Think about human relationships too. It’s turning out that babies’ earliest...
Instead of locking up drug addicts, police in Gloucester, Massachusetts, are leading them to the road of recovery. Police chief Leonard Campanello announced on the department’s Facebook page that, starting June 1, any addict who...
Angry. Frightened. Sad. When teenagers are marched in handcuffs through a discreet back entrance at the Susannah Wesley Community Center in Kalihi — or walk through the front door with their parents clutching a police citation —...
I think a lot about my daughter's mother on Mother's Day as well how much being a mother has taught me about love and attachment. When I first became an adoptive parent, I read everything I could about adoption and attachment. That process...
By Andrea Blanch and David Shern Two weeks ago, Liberia was officially declared “Ebola free.” Liberia was ground zero of the Ebola epidemic, with confirmed cases in all 15 counties and almost 5,000 Ebola-related deaths. ...
In the first assessment of public opinion since obesity was formally classified as a disease, a new study from the Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity at the University of Connecticut has found that a majority of Americans support the designation. "Given that two-thirds of Americans have overweight or obesity , the disease classification potentially affects a substantial portion of the population," says Rebecca Puhl, the study's co-author,...