As more agencies turn their searchlight on sexual abuse of the country's young girls, there is an increasingly loud call for more emphasis to be placed on boys who are victims of sexual abuse. According to Everton Hannam, chairman of the...
Terrence McCoy recently offered up an interesting solution to Baltimore’s homicide crisis in The Washington Post : A program like one in Richmond, California, that identifies residents with the most violent histories of criminal...
Andrew Solomon did an incredible service to women, mothers and families with his latest piece in the New York Times Magazine, " The Secret Sadness of Pregnancy With Depression ." Solomon offered a compassionate, nuanced and well-researched...
The Obama administration has invested heavily in a data-based drive to improve the math, reading and science skills of the nation’s school children. So what do the numbers show? According to the National Center for Education Statistics,...
Will Nebbitt lives on the 5th floor of a new downtown apartment building. From his window, he has a panoramic view of the Los Angeles skyline. He can also see Skid Row, where he spent decades sleeping on the ground. Nebbitt, 58, says his...
Bullying may be responsible for nearly 30% of cases of depression among adults, a new study suggests. By tracking 2,668 people from early childhood through adulthood, researchers found that 13-year-olds who were frequent targets of bullies were...
For years, Suzanne Petroni, senior director at the International Center for Research on Women, would speak — backed by mountains of evidence she studies — about the number one cause of death among women around the world: maternal...
On a warm Saturday in late May 2008, my wife, Ann, talked me into going to an auditorium in Baltimore to watch a lottery. It was no ordinary lottery. Numbered balls were cranked out of a bingo machine, and the winners got a ticket to a better life. It...
Kimberley Enyart was never interested in doing recreational drugs. But then she was in a car accident and her doctor prescribed a powerful opiate for the pain. "It just would put me off in la-la land, and make me feel better," she says. "I...
On a recent afternoon, Brittany Combs drove a white SUV through a neighborhood at the northern end of Austin, Indiana. In the back of her vehicle, there were hundreds of sterile syringes, each in a plastic wrapper. "Anybody need clean needles...
When Grace McClellan attends two music festivals — Governors Ball in New York and Bonnaroo in Tennessee — this month, she will be among friends who feel more like family. Their shared bond, along with a love of live music:...
Volunteer: Be the voice for a child that doesn’t have one! Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area CASA National volunteer opportunities Job description Nearly 9000 children are reported abused or neglected...
Sleep may be a missing piece in the Alzheimer's disease puzzle. Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have found compelling evidence that poor sleep - particularly a deficit of the deep, restorative slumber...
In a stunning discovery that overturns decades of textbook teaching, researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have determined that the brain is directly connected to the immune system by vessels previously thought not to...
It's time for helicopter parents to land and stay grounded. New research by professors at Brigham Young University revealed that parental warmth cannot neutralize the consequences of helicopter parenting . Additionally, a lack of...