Tiny houses. Some call them a quaint fad, fancied by those without the space demands of a family. Others tout them as the ideal, eco-conscious structure, the symbol of a minimalist movement taking hold among a new generation of American...
As a victim of childhood trauma, I have a propensity toward anxiety. It is my reaction of choice when life gets difficult. Having lived with anxiety most of my life, I never knew there was another way to live. I assumed it was normal. I assumed...
It is estimated that around 1 in 10 Americans experience depression at some point in their lives. Major depression affects almost 7% of the US population, with women more likely to develop the condition than men. Symptoms of...
Lots of factors influence our happiness, and like it or not, behavioral scientists consistently find that money is one of them. But it’s not just our own money that impacts our well-being; the money those around...
Of all the middle school anxieties facing 5th-graders at Argonne Elementary School in San Francisco last spring, the most tangible was a round-faced combination lock. Elementary school, a land of cubbies and coat hooks, soon would be in the...
A marriage proposal for a woman at 38 is rarely really a marriage proposal. Or, rather, it’s not a choice of two people; it’s a choice of child or no child. It’s a last chance. I got engaged on the Mekong River, sitting in the...
It's an old and controversial question: Should federal Pell grants be used to help prisoners pay for college? Tomorrow, at a prison in Jessup, Md., Education Secretary Arne Duncan and Attorney General Loretta Lynch are expected to unveil a...
" /> Dr. Nneka Jones Tapia, who runs the sprawling Cook County Jail here, has an indelible childhood memory of police officers pounding on the aluminum walls of the family’s double-wide trailer home in North Carolina, rifling through...
The Center for the Study of Social Policy website is overflowing with resources for building resilient communities. From their Strengthening Families initiative, I have attach a set of "action sheets" that are geared to help providers improve family...
This great idea would be wonderful to implement in communities around the country: “I would notice how popular teen books on these topics were, but how rare actual questions about them from teen library patrons were,” Azevedo said....
In response to prior discussions and MEM's question today. I propose a forum for high ACE scoring adults looking to brainstorm, discuss, vent and share. Many of us have discussed this before and imagined possible style and...
Across the country, there are efforts to close outdated and dangerous juvenile detention centers. But even in places with so-called model juvenile halls, counties often struggle to meet the minimum standards. A juvenile hall in San Leandro,...
To tell whether a baby has been injured or killed by being shaken, the courts use three hallmark symptoms: bleeding and swelling in the brain and retinal bleeding in the eyes. Along with other evidence, those standards are used to convict...
Freshman year is critical, but not for the reasons most students (and their parents) imagine. American students have the luxury of a long horizon to settle on good classes, select a major and chart a career; there’s plenty of time to make...
New York is set to begin a $30 million program aimed at providing mental health services to low-income residents with little or no access to care. The program, Connections to Care, will tap existing community organizations that...