Child Healthcare

Peaceful Revolution: Kids in Health Care Reform -- Beyond Fat Babies and Underweight Toddlers

Jocelyn Guyer | Posted 10.27.2009 | Living


Jocelyn Guyer

Children have an from successful passage of a strong health reform bill -- their health, well-being, and the financial security of their families rest upon it.

Child Obesity: Our Worst Fears Are Coming True

Joanna Dolgoff, M.D. | Posted 10.12.2009 | Living


Joanna Dolgoff, M.D.

Pediatricians have long feared that the rising number of severely obese children and teens would soon start to suffer from adult complications of obesity, like heart attacks, strokes, and death. And now it is happening.

Real Health(y) Care Reform: It's World Breastfeeding Awareness Week

Karen Kisslinger | Posted 09.05.2009 | Living


Karen Kisslinger

Far too little attention is given to the fact that it is well known that access to breast milk in infancy and beyond is protective against later childhood and later life obesity.

The Missing Debate on Poverty

Linda Basch | Posted 11.09.2008 | Politics


Linda Basch

The candidates' strategic messages on the welfare of the middle class were loud and clear during the debate, but it was their silence on poverty that was truly deafening.

The First & Last VP Debate: This Soccer Mom Isn't Buying

Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner | Posted 11.06.2008 | Politics


Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

The economy is about more than just Wall Street bailouts. It's about how we're going to pay for escalating childcare, how we can pull together healthcare coverage for our kids.

When Courage And Conscience Collide

Robyn O'Brien | Posted 09.11.2008 | Living


Robyn O'Brien

I had been raised to support the system, to believe in it, and certainly to never speak out. Activism was something that "radicals" did, not conservative soccer moms. But everywhere I turned, there were sick children.

Veto This: House Passes Child Health Bill Bush Opposes

NY Times | ROBERT PEAR | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Once again defying a veto threat from President Bush, the House on Thursday passed a bill to provide health insurance for 10 million children. But sup...