Intolerable Cruelty: Our Sick Children's Indebted Future
In 1946, Harry Truman said, "A nation is only as healthy as its children." What have we done to ours?
In 1946, Harry Truman said, "A nation is only as healthy as its children." What have we done to ours?
Charlotte Safavi | Posted 09.30.2009 | Living
Boys and men need to do more housework. Despite the sexual revolution, the traditional division of labor-at-home remains firmly entrenched in our society.
AP | By AMANDA LEE MYERS | Posted 09.29.2009 | Home
PHOENIX (AP)-- A 9-year-old boy charged in the gang-rape of an 8-year-old Liberian girl sobbed in court Monday as his teacher testified that he rarely...
Robert Koehler | Posted 09.29.2009 | World
This talk was delivered on Sept. 25, in Band-e Amir, Afghanistan's first national park, in the Hindu Kush Mountains of Central Afghanistan, Bamiyan Pr...
AP | LINDSEY TANNER | Posted 09.28.2009 | Living
CHICAGO — More than half a million U.S. children yearly have bad reactions or side effects from widely used medicines that require medical treat...
Dr. Susan Corso | Posted 10.03.2009 | Living
Part of what sets these dancers in high relief is their unbelievable control and flexibility, but the other, major portion of their grace is how much they so obviously love their womanly bodies and, by extension, their female selves.
Juliet Linley | Posted 11.25.2009 | Living
"He knows I need to get rid of him. I can't stand him anymore," my colleague retorted. Then she added, equally angrily, "And he can't stand me."
Rohit Chopra | Posted 11.24.2009 | Business
Here in America, could we better protect the environment, reduce crime, and increase school performance if the poor had fewer children? Maybe.
Darell Hammond | Posted 11.24.2009 | Living
Children spend their free time inside, lured by television and computers. If there was greater access to quality playspaces, more people would spend time outdoors.
Heather Cabot | Posted 11.22.2009 | Living
Through a series of new stage productions in New York and elsewhere, mom bloggers and tweeters will step into the spotlight and tell motherhood like it is to a live audience.
Daniel Heimpel | Posted 11.21.2009 | Living
A new law is an amalgam of many of the best thoughts to be found in the foster care advocacy community and hinges on a common-sense yet revolutionary idea: that happiness is just as important as safety.
cnn.com | Elizabeth Landau CNN | Posted 11.21.2009 | Living
A new study of more than 2,500 toddlers from low-income families found that spanking may have detrimental effects on behavior and mental development....
medicalnewstoday.com | Posted 11.21.2009 | Living
The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) is proud to announce its new practice parameter on the use of psychotropic medications...
Daniel Heimpel | Posted 11.18.2009 | Living
It is hard for boys to become men when they don't have any in their lives. For John, the Chris I know and Andrade the difference can be a male role model, a mentor.
health.com | Posted 11.18.2009 | Living
Eating meals together goes beyond the opportunity for bonding and relaxing. And despite the feeling that there's no time for such luxuries, 59% of fam...
Jeana Lee Tahnk | Posted 11.18.2009 | Living
As busy parents, juggling the hustle and bustle of daily life and trying to stay one step ahead of everything we're responsible for, it's so easy to miss the simple, precious moments.
Jim Wallis | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics
Beck's predictions that health care reform would lead to government bureaucrats euthanizing people like his daughter are dead wrong, but we at Sojournors agree with Glenn on this point: God is the giver of life.
The Huffington Post | Posted 11.18.2009 | Home
In the late 1960s, psychologist Walter Mischel performed a series of tests on preschoolers referred to as The Marshmallow Tests. Mischel would give a...
realsimple.com | Teri Cettina | Posted 11.17.2009 | Living
Your child can't sleep? Put bedtime bugaboos--and your kids--to rest with these expert solutions....
Russell Simmons | Posted 11.17.2009 | World
An estimated 27 million human beings worldwide today are living lives of exploitation. They are objects of ownership, forgotten as children in need of love, nurturing and protection.
Rose Winters | Posted 11.16.2009 | Living
There is a funny thing about life. With time and with experience, our perspectives change. What we once held on to so tightly, can hold little or no importance today.
Jenifer Fox | Posted 11.16.2009 | Living
5. Listen to children. They know their strengths better than anyone. But in order to listen effectively, you must ask a lot of questions.
Deborah Tannen | Posted 11.16.2009 | Living
A sister is someone with whom you can laugh and be silly like when you were kids; who still sees in you the child you were; who shares your past and your memories of it.
Susan Kane | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics
As millions of kids headed back to school this month, many parents, teachers, and administrators had a lot to think about. Things like, will there actually be enough seats in the ballooning classes?
msn.com | Posted 11.15.2009 | Living
Swimming in a chlorinated pool may boost the odds that a child susceptible to asthma and allergies will develop these problems, a study indicates....
Robyn O'Brien | Posted 09.30.2009 | Living