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October 3, 2025
The Link Between Maternal Drug Use and Rising Infant Mortality
…and strongly associated with maternal drug use—is ten times greater than a decade ago. What is happening? Some have suggested that more restrictive abortion laws in the wake of the Supreme Court’s 2022 Dobbs decision…
June 20, 2025
What Kids Need—and Adults Need to Know—to Combat the Youth Mental Health Crisis
…no doubt that having fewer screens and fewer hours of screen time will help students stay on task. But early indications show the bans haven’t really moved the needle on…
April 3, 2025
The dangerous myth that poverty is the cause of child abuse
Why does child abuse happen? A new public service announcement says most people think it’s a “bad parent problem,” but the ad suggests “the root causes may be different than you think.”…
February 22, 2025
Why Long Island Is Hoping Former Cops Will Become Child Protective Services Workers
…been exceptions. Arizona, for instance, hired 120 detectives to work with CPS several years ago. (The state’s child protection agency was led for a time by a former homicide detective.)…
February 16, 2025
More Girls Than Boys Are Using Fentanyl. What Is Going on in the Lives of These Girls?
…drugs face particular vulnerabilities that should also make us worry about this trend. In her bestselling memoir “Lit,” Mary Karr writes about one of the first times she was offered…
February 15, 2025
One Man’s Quest to Keep Kids Away from Drugs
…to let him spend part of his time on drug education. The Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) program launched in 1983 was taught by police officers in most school districts…
February 2, 2025
Don’t Believe the Lies about Cannabis
…debilitating our children.” If states are supposed to be laboratories of democracy, then it’s time we report results from the experiment with legalization on the state level. Legalization and the…
January 23, 2025
The Effects of Child Neglect Can Be As Harmful As Child Abuse
…learning disability. But Henderson, who went on to graduate from Yale and Oxford, has a different theory. In a recent tweet, he noted that during this time, he was changing…
January 8, 2025
Child Abuse Is Child Abuse, Regardless of the Circumstances
…Administration of Children and Families and issued numerous reports about the situation both before and after Tilus. In 2012, The New York Times began one article on the situation this way: “The…
January 5, 2025
Racine Case Tragically Exposes Gaps in Wisconsin’s Protection of Kids from Abuse
…and extremities. The Racine Journal Times reported on the case and noted that there was also a “1-year-old child with a bruised, injured eye.” Powell was arrested and the children’s mother, Javian Clark,…