Sesame Workshop, the people behind "Sesame Street" (yes, that "Sesame Street!") got a group of young filmmakers who also have had a parent in prison together and asked them to talk about kids of incarcerated parents and...
The study is the first to link abuse of pregnant women with emotional and behavioral trauma symptoms in their children within the first year of life. Symptoms include nightmares, startling easily, being bothered by loud noises and bright...
Smokers trying to quit often light up a cigarette to deal with stress. Now an interdisciplinary team of Yale researchers has shown that guanfacine, a medication approved for treating hypertension that reduces stress and enhances cognition,...
It's no secret that people are judgmental, and young children are no exception. When children witness "good" or "bad" behavior, their brains show an immediate emotional response. But, according to a study appearing in the Cell Press journal...
Self-reported moderate to vigorous exercise was associated with lower blood pressure and blood glucose levels in a Kaiser Permanente study published in the journal Preventing Chronic Disease. Data collected from Kaiser Permanente's Exercise as...
es “confirmation bias” influence the way whites think about police shootings of young men of color? This bias is the tendency to interpret or remember information in a way that confirms what we already believe, and helps us to...
The poverty rate of school-age children remains above pre-recession levels in nearly 30 percent of the nation’s 3,140 counties. The rate rose in 928 counties from 2007 to 2013, as depicted in the map above, and fell in just 15 counties,...
The day after Rolling Stone published its now-notorious feature about a gruesome fraternity gang rape at the University of Virginia, UVA President Teresa Sullivan issued a statement defending her school. The language she used was oddly...
This article in the Huffington Post about an AP compilation (over 8 months they canvassed all fifty states) on children dying while involved in America’s child protection systems makes it clear that the issues being discussed by MN...
For many American workers, this is the time of year for tying up loose ends and taking it easy. For Simon Ting, this is the time of year for working harder than ever. Ting, 24, works at a Macy’s in San Francisco, and he’s paid...
When she went to prison on drug charges, Stephanie George was 26 years old, a mother to three young kids. Over 17 years behind bars, her grandparents died. Her father died. But the worst came just months before her release. "I lost my baby...
In the aftermath of the recent hostage situation in Sydney, Kim Felmingham - clinical psychologist and neuroscientist at the University of Tasmania – describes the importance of social networks and a sense of community to pull people in the...
We have all heard of the stories of support and encouragement that have enabled an individual to grow into the person they are today – a teacher who tutors a lower performing student who then becomes a teacher; the nurse who gives incredible...
Last week, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., and Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, introduced the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Reauthorization Act of 2014. The Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act (JJDPA) provides state...
This was an encouraging week for those alarmed at the way the U.S. pumps children into the criminal justice system and what it does to them once they are there. On Capitol Hill, at the Department of Education, in a Texas courtroom and in...