|
|
|
|
Seattle Times
--
A trusted, even respected or beloved teacher is accused of having a sexual relationship with a student.
What used to shock us, but is now much too commonplace, is that the teacher is a woman.
Their names become tabloid headlines: Mary K. Letourneau,..
Read More
|
|
|
USA Today
--
Children whose families are investigated for abuse or neglect are likely to do better in life if they stay with their families than if they go into foster care, according to a pioneering study.
The findings intensify a vigorous debate in child welfare:..
Read More
|
|
|
Washington Post
--
Children rank as the highest source of personal fulfillment for their parents but have dropped to one of the least-cited factors in a successful marriage, according to a national survey to be released today.
In a study that shows how separately marriag..
Read More
|
|
|
Reuters
--
For Chris Gardner, who was played by Will Smith in the movie "The Pursuit of Happyness," fatherhood is the greatest job in the world.
"There's no pay. There are no benefits. You don't get time off. You don't get a break," he said. "But once in a while..
Read More
|
|
|
FOX News
--
Trendy wheeled sneakers that let kids zip down sidewalks, across playgrounds and through mall crowds could also send them rolling into emergency rooms on a stretcher, say doctors who blame a rash of injuries on the international craze.
It's called "hee..
Read More
|
|
|
FOX News
--
Children who got quality child care before entering kindergarten had better vocabulary scores in the fifth grade than did youngsters who received lower quality care.
Also, the more time that children spent in child care, the more likely their sixth gra..
Read More
|
|
|
Washington Post
--
When 19-year-old Donn? McDaniel became pregnant last year, Tim Wagoner didn't consider marrying her...
Read More
|
|
|
MSNBC
--
Several leading child welfare groups Tuesday urged an overhaul of federal laws dealing with transracial adoption, arguing that black children in foster care are ill-served by a "colorblind" approach meant to encourage their adoption by white families...
Read More
|
|
|
Guardian Unlimited
--
"Closing!" A woman prison officer bellows out the word, her arms stretched across the doorway. She presses a button and a grate of thick iron bars slides shut with a thud. I'm inside now. It's impossible not to be overcome by a sense of deja vu. You've be..
Read More
|
|
|
MSNBC
--
Suicides among children and young adults rose by an alarming 8 percent in 2004, the largest rise in 15 years, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on Thursday.
In 2004, 4,599 children and adults aged 10 to 24 committed suicide,..
Read More
|
|
|
CNN
--
It's a girl -- again -- for Jim Bob and Michelle Duggars, the proud parents of 17 children. And after Jennifer Danielle was born Thursday morning, her parents already were talking about having more children.
"We'd love to have more," Michelle Duggar sa..
Read More
|
|
|
CNN
--
Christine Louise Hohlbaum and her husband took their children to Venice when they were 2 and 4 years old. Looking back, she wishes she'd waited until they were a little older. "It was expensive, they were cranky and we said next time we'd go without them,..
Read More
|
|
|
Alter Net
--
Surely leaky pipes aren't more important than our children. Yet, in America, most plumbers make five times what caregivers do. Author Riane Eisler shows how our economic system, rooted in gender inequality, is failing us. An excerpt from her latest book f..
Read More
|
|
|
SF Gate
--
Linda Pelzman appreciates the beauty of the outdoor world, sometimes pulling her children into the yard to gaze at a full moon or peer into a dense fog. An educator and founder of a summer camp, she only wishes her enthusiasm was fully shared.
On a rec..
Read More
|
|
|
Washington Post
--
Linda Pelzman appreciates the beauty of the outdoor world, sometimes pulling her children into the yard to gaze at a full moon or peer into a dense fog. An educator and founder of a summer camp, she only wishes her enthusiasm was fully shared.
On a rec..
Read More
|
|
|
CNN
--
Home has been reduced to a handful of photos, e-mails with the children, a homemade silver dog tag. When they can, the dads swap memories when no one is trying to kill them.
Army Staff Sgt. Dustin Williams was supposed to be home on this day -- Father'..
Read More
|
|
|
Daily Mail
--
When George Thomas was eight he walked everywhere.
It was 1926 and his parents were unable to afford the fare for a tram, let alone the cost of a bike and he regularly walked six miles to his favourite fishing haunt without adult supervision.
Fast f..
Read More
|
|
|
Telegraph
--
Living in the heart of Paris, Janine di Giovanni sees daily evidence that French mothers are strict with their children to the point of cruelty. But it does seem to work...
A New Zealand friend, a mother of three, recently texted me: "I am in the park..
Read More
|
|
|
Yahoo News
--
Children typically spend hours in front of a computer so a Canadian university has decided to introduce them to Shakespeare with a video game.
While zapping enemy spaceships players have to help recover the stolen text of Romeo and Juliet by memorizing..
Read More
|
|
|
FOX News
--
Kids with religious parents are better behaved and adjusted than other children, according to a new study that is the first to look at the effects of religion on young child development.
The conflict that arises when parents regularly argue over their..
Read More
|
|
