When new mom Hayden Panettiere sought help at a treatment center for postpartum depression , several outlets noted the similarity between her real-life storyline and that of her character on the show Nashville, country singer...
In the fall of 2003, police in New Jersey received a call from a concerned neighbor who’d found a boy rummaging in her garbage, looking for food. He was 19 years old but was four feet tall and weighed just 45 pounds. Investigators soon...
Princeton University economist Angus Deaton received this year’s Nobel Prize in Economics because his work elevates the understanding of individual and household consumption and is key to devising...
Last year when I attempted to pick my daughter up from school, the volunteers in the carpool line tried to put a fourth grader in my car, not the four year old I was attempting to retrieve. Both of us were vehemently shaking our heads, both of...
After Tara Conner talked with children at Daybreak Youth Services about their addiction struggles, the 29-year-old went back to her hotel room and cried for an hour. Then, she did some writing and prayed. She knows the strife those teens are...
In a card game, holding aces is an advantage. But in life, having too many aces can make a person miserable. Those kind of ACEs go by the formal term of adverse childhood experiences. They were defined in a 1995-1997 study in San Diego,...
School and public health officials say teachers need to know what’s going on in their students’ home lives to help them succeed. At the Glenn Massay Theater on Saturday night, Mat-Su Health Foundation (MSHF) hosted a second showing...
Here is a short video of me introducing the film Paper Tigers in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. https://www.facebook.com/jeffr...=6422603447808515859
On May 20, Karen Arkin was standing in the common room of her son's dormitory at Northwestern University. The day before, in the early morning hours, Jason Arkin went into that room and took an overdose of pills that sent him into a seizure. He...
Donna Jackson Nakazawa, author of Childhood Disrupted: How Your Biography Becomes Your Biology, joins Mental Health Daily for a podcast. [Read the summary and listen to the podcast at http://mhdaily.org/into-the-fo...childhood-disrupted/ ]
Many people have experienced the magic of a wonderful teacher, and we all know anecdotally that these instructors can change our lives. But what if a teacher and a student don'tconnect? How does that affect the education that child receives? Is...
No matter where you live, being a 15-year-old girl can be tough. For some girls, it's a fight for independence, the fight to be first in class, or even the fight to win a boy's heart. For others, it's a fight to stay safe from deadly gang...
By now, anyone who's paying attention knows that universities across the country have a serious gender-balance problem, especially in science and related fields. But there appears to be some hope on the horizon: A new study shows...
At the JDAI (Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative) conference in Phoenix last month, about 1,000 people from around the country heard Annie E. Casey Foundation President (and former juvenile corrections administrator) Patrick...
Police in Charlotte, North Carolina, are planning an ordinance that is so vigorously unconstitutional, so wolf-faced crazy from concept to execution, that it may win an award for Most Bonkers Public Policy proposed for a city this...