"Since we first published Maggie’s harrowing story of domestic abuse in late February on LightBox and in TIME , and since the arrest of Maggie’s ex-boyfriend, Shane, photographer Sara Naomi Lewkowicz has continued to...
Abstract The saying “violence begets violence” is an apt descriptor of the cycle of family violence, as children who witness parental violence are at high risk for repeating family violence in their own adult intimate relationships....
"One of obesity’s hidden factors that is receiving a lot of attention lately is adverse childhood experiences. Large scale studies ( http://acestudy.org/ ) have clearly demonstrated that adults who experienced adversity during their childhood,...
"The mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut and other recent high-profile violent acts have many people interested in learning more about the signs of mental illness. "One Napa-based nonprofit has been offering training for two...
"Local program offers a glimpse of ways to catch emotional, social issues early...." "For more than a decade, everyone from the American Academy of Pediatrics to the U.S. surgeon general has urged that all children also be screened for mental health...
" Problem : Too many sex trafficking victims are not being found or helped in the United States because too many local governments are ignorant of state and federal human trafficking laws. Compounding this problem, cities and counties are lagging...
"The use of guilt-inducing parenting in daily parent-child interaction causes children distress still evident on the next day, emerges from the study Parents, teachers, and children's learning (LIGHT) carried out by Kaisa Aunola, Asko Tolvanenen,...
"A new Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center study, published in the eFirst pages of the journal Pediatrics, shows that teen childbirth rates are more than 20 percent for abused and neglected teens. This compares to the national teen...
"Being exposed to arguments between parents is associated with the way babies' brains process emotional tone of voice, according to a new study to be published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science...."...
"A recent report (Gang Assessment) authored by Professor Clay Mosher of Washington State University Vancouver and funded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance found "a significant gang presence [in Clark County], which includes Caucasian gangs, Latino gangs, African-American gangs, as well as several others." (The report can be accessed online at Safe Communities Task Force ...." "We know that gangs take root when our core institutions — families, schools, and economic systems...
"In an auspicious decision this month, Cuyahoga County was selected as one of 12 communities nationwide to participate in a Justice Department initiative that helps identify men and women in abusive and potentially fatal relationships. "The $197,447...
"This is amazing that the men of Dallas are this excited about something that's not about sports," said Mayor Mike Rawlings, who spearheaded the Dallas Men Against Abuse event in the wake of disturbing crime figures. "You can call a guy who hits a...
"A new study from the University of Maryland (UM) found that use of antipsychotic drugs from 1997 to 2006 increased 7- to 12-fold in a Medicaid population of about 500,000 children ages two to 17...."...
"Trauma is setting off emergency alarms in the behavioral health arena. Research is now showing that when an individual experiences a traumatic event — regardless of its magnitude or severity — it can trigger a life-altering response that...
"What happens when the kids we label as ‘at-risk’ for maltreatment grow up? They become at-risk adults and the research on these adults paints an unfortunate picture of what happens when you grow up in an environment exposed to those...