In South Korea, grim stories of teen suicide come at a regular clip. Recently, two 16-year-old girls in the city of Daejeon jumped to their deaths, leaving a note saying, "We hate school." It's just one tragedy in a country where suicide is the...
There is rare consensus among inmate advocates and correction officials that the surest way to fix the Rikers Island jail complex is to empty it. While Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York is not prepared to go that far, he and the state’s...
The last time Kenneth Seay lost his job, at an industrial bakery that offered health insurance and Christmas bonuses, it was because he had been thrown in jail for legal issues stemming from a revoked driver’s license. Same with the three...
Everly Dickerd's death is a tragedy. The 3-month-old recently died as a result of injuries due to head trauma. Her baby sitter has been charged with child abuse that led to those injuries. Sadly, Everly is not the only child to die from child...
City elections in Memphis begin unadorned. Yard signs don’t bloom until mid- to late summer, when the strategic use of television ads and the much higher cycle of radio advertising kick in. Even by those standards, Jim Strickland’s...
Concerns surrounding drug and alcohol consumption are widely discussed in relation to youth but, according to a University of Adelaide researcher, there is a need to explore this issue further with older Australians. Dr Lynette Cusack, from the...
Last summer, the Michigan town of Grosse Pointe Park erected a farmer's market in the middle of one of the few remaining streets that allowed cars to pass between the tony suburb and the urban Detroit neighborhoods at its border. It was the...
By now, researchers have well established the benefits of trees in urban neighborhoods. Trees are correlated with better health outcomes. They mitigate the urban heat-island effect and lower energy bills. They raise overall property values. But...
Public tolerance for laws and practices that discriminate against LGBT people under the guise of religion has rapidly declined. President Obama last week called for an end to so-called conversion therapies that seek to “fix” LGBT youth in...
When a child faces cancer or another serious illness, the main focus, of necessity, is on a cure. What is often overlooked in the maze of medical treatments is the emotional and psychological toll on families. Now, evidence shows that problems...
For years, many juvenile offenders in New York City had been exiled to upstate facilities — hundreds of miles from families, schools and communities. This continued despite mounting evidence that keeping such youth closer to home improves...
A report of child abuse is made every 10 seconds in the United States, and more than 1,600 children die each year from abuse or neglect, an expert says. Child abuse survivors can suffer long-term physical, emotional and psychological problems,...
It’s time our legislators stopped children from being abused and murdered. Our elected officials can reduce crime, bullying, poverty, academic failure and the most common causes of death with a few strokes of the pen. And they can save...
It's a first, and it may help answer the question that seems to have stopped the medical community from integrating trauma-informed and resilience-building practices based on ACEs research: "So, now that we know someone's ACE Score, what do we do????"...
There are a lot of advantages to earning more money, but getting a good night’s sleep may not be one of them. It turns out that, in general, the more money people make, the less they sleep. That’s been true for decades in the United...