Each year police kill a certain number of civilians. And every year the FBI puts out the Supplemental Homicide Report that's meant to provide an accurate count of those deaths. But it doesn't. "I would rate it somewhere between...
Nearly 2.7 million American children have to cope with the incarceration of one or both of their parents, according to 2010 data from the Pew Charitable Trusts. A growing body of research informs concerned policymakers by showing the extraordinary...
What’s the value of black lives when it comes to housing discrimination? A Brooklyn property developer answered that question recently when writer D. W. Gibson spoke with him for New York magazine about his real-estate...
There are parents, and then there are parents. There are plenty of folks who do an outstanding job of nurturing, protecting and guiding their children to become healthy, successful adults. For these people, excellent parenting is a high priority in...
A landmark first step was taken today to insure that all public schools in the United States be legally required to address the unique learning needs of children affected by adverse childhood experiences. A class action suit on behalf of...
At schools that offer comprehensive sex education, students tend to get the biology and the basics — they'll learn about sexually transmitted diseases and pregnancy, how to put a condom on a banana and the like. But some public health...
Doctors see disease and they think about genes and germs, molecules and chemicals. But there’s a new recommendation from the neuroscience lab: Think about human relationships too. It’s turning out that babies’ earliest...
Instead of locking up drug addicts, police in Gloucester, Massachusetts, are leading them to the road of recovery. Police chief Leonard Campanello announced on the department’s Facebook page that, starting June 1, any addict who...
Angry. Frightened. Sad. When teenagers are marched in handcuffs through a discreet back entrance at the Susannah Wesley Community Center in Kalihi — or walk through the front door with their parents clutching a police citation —...
I think a lot about my daughter's mother on Mother's Day as well how much being a mother has taught me about love and attachment. When I first became an adoptive parent, I read everything I could about adoption and attachment. That process...
By Andrea Blanch and David Shern Two weeks ago, Liberia was officially declared “Ebola free.” Liberia was ground zero of the Ebola epidemic, with confirmed cases in all 15 counties and almost 5,000 Ebola-related deaths. ...
In the first assessment of public opinion since obesity was formally classified as a disease, a new study from the Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity at the University of Connecticut has found that a majority of Americans support the designation. "Given that two-thirds of Americans have overweight or obesity , the disease classification potentially affects a substantial portion of the population," says Rebecca Puhl, the study's co-author,...
For medical practices, having more unique doctors on staff and having doctors see more patients doesn't necessarily lead to improved patient outcomes—and in fact, may have the opposite effect, according to a brief report in the June issue of...
Three months ago, a TED talk I gave was posted on the Internet , and the emails, calls, and letters began pouring in — from across the country and around the world. Women and men from Texas and Louisiana, Australia and the Czech...
When I was 29 years old, my mother died. It was completely unexpected; she was only 61. In an instant, decades of plans disappeared. Going through birth with her calm presence beside me. Her spoiling my children with stuff they shouldn't have....