Undocumented immigrant mothers and children are kept in excessively cold conditions, given undercooked food and mocked by guards in a detention facility in Artesia, New Mexico, an attorney alleged after a visit there. "The unnecessary cruelty is...
Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson was indicted in a child injury case last week after reportedly using a small tree branch to hit his 4-year-old son in May 2014. Peterson has also been accused of abusing his other young son, though his...
More than 20 national education and civil rights advocates sent a letter Monday to Department of Defense officials, urging them to stop giving U.S. school police departments anti-mine vehicles, military-grade firearms like M16s and even grenade...
Nearly one in five children in the United States lived in poverty last year, with a much higher proportion of poverty among African-American and Hispanic children, new U.S. Census figures released Tuesday show. Overall, the number of children...
On a clear morning this past February, the inmates in the B Yard of Pelican Bay State Prison filed out of their cellblock a few at a time and let a cool, salty breeze blow across their bodies. Their home, the California prison...
The housing crisis and credit collapse that together comprised the Great Recession disproportionately affected minorities in America in at least two specific ways. As recent research from Rice University and Cornell University has demonstrated,...
Recently, the world learned that Jihadists had stoned a Syrian woman to death for "adultery." Stoning, a barbaric form of death by torture, involves the throwing of stones at a person until they die. In recent days, more accounts have been...
If your belt needs to be let out a notch, you're not alone. The average American waistline is growing even though obesity rates haven't grown. And excess abdominal fat increases the risk of heart disease, diabetes and stroke. The collective...
In 2013, 6.3 million children under the age of 5 died. That's a tragic statistic — yet it represents a 49 percent drop from 1990, according to data released Tuesday by the United Nations. Dr. Mickey Chopra, the head of UNICEF's global...
We all know which kid Mom and Dad liked best, and odds are you're thinking it's not you. But does that really make a difference? It can, researchers say, but not always the way you might think. Less-favored children are more likely to be using...
Tarpon Springs, Florida, once known as the nation’s sponge-fishing capital, today boasts a new designation: the first city in the country to declare itself a trauma-informed community. It isn’t that the 24,000 residents...
Participants were 22,147 past-year drinkers from Wave 2 (2004 to 2005) of the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions. A structured, face-to-face interview assessed past-year stressful life events, alcohol craving, and...
Over the last three decades, researchers have made remarkable progress in creating and testing family-focused preventive programs aimed at fostering the well-being of children. These programs include universal interventions, such as...
Objective: There has been an increased interest in the role of the childhood social environment in the etiology of adult diseases in recent years. The present study examines whether the experience of adversity during childhood increases...
I n the wake of Fergusons delayed start to the school year in response to the shooting of Michael Brown, National Journal reporter Janell Ross reached out to educators around the countryincluding the Center for Trauma & Learning in Post-Secondary Education (CTLPSE) at MassBay Community College---regarding the impact of trauma on academics. http://www.nationaljournal.com...n-prospects-20140908 Referred to me by the Trauma & Learning Policy Institute (TLPI) ,...