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Boy Scout Confidential

Web Extras Book: Scout’s Honor: Sexual Abuse in America’s Most Trusted Institution A look inside a Confidential File Data on molesters in...

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Health Law Gives Abstinence-only Programs New Life

The health care reform law that President Barack Obama signed into law March 23 to help Americans get access to health insurance...

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States May Be Able to Shield Juveniles from Registries

States may be able to shield most juvenile sex offenders from inclusion on a public registry and still achieve compliance with the...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

First Lady Begins Anti-Obesity Campaign

First lady Michelle Obama kicked off her child obesity awareness tour with a schedule of appearances and speeches active enough to...

► Newsmakers

Newsmakers for March 2010

Nonprofits Last year around this time, two drug abuse prevention groups were heralding their looming merger as a perfect union. The National...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

We Deserve Better Sex Ed

By Meklit Gebre-Mariam, 16L.A. YOUTH, LOS ANGELES I took health class two years ago in the summer and I’m not sure...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

The “Talk”: Are Schools Doing It Right?

By Anonymous, 17 NEW YOUTH CONNECTIONS, NEW YORK Have your parents ever tried to give you “the talk”? My dad tried...

► Reports

Efficacy of a Theory-Based Abstinence-Only Intervention Over 24 Months: A Randomized Controlled Trial With Young Adolescents

Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine This new federally funded study released last month provides the first clear evidence that abstinence-only...

► Reports

The Foreclosure Generation: The Long-Term Impact of the Housing Crisis on Latino Children and Families

National Council of La Raza & Center for Community Capital at the University of North Carolina (UNC) This report examines the...

► Reports

Kids Count Data Center

Annie E. Casey Foundation This state-by-state database tracking the health and well-being of U.S. children and their families has been updated...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Condom Nation: The U.S. Government’s Sex Education Campaign from World War I to the Internet

Alexandra M. LordThe Johns Hopkins University Press224 pages. $40. This fascinating history of the past hundred years of sex education in...

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CASA, Join Together Split

Note: This story has been updated since its original posting. Last year’s much-heralded merger of the National Center on Addiction and Substance...

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Study Shows Abstinence Education Can Delay Sex by Young Teens

A new federally funded study released this week provides the first clear evidence that abstinence-only education can delay sexual activity in young...

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Is Abstinence-Only Locked Out of Federal Funding?

Click Image for PDF of Chart A new $110 million appropriation for teen pregnancy prevention in the 2010 federal budget, along with...

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The Effects of the Recession on Child Poverty: Poverty Statistics for 2008 and Growth in Need during 2009

Brookings Institution and First FocusU.S. Census Bureau Two new research reports provide evidence of the impact of the recession on child...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

How to Talk to Families About Child and Adolescent Mental Illness

Diane T. Marsh, Melissa J. MarksW.W. Norton252 pages. $21.95 paperback. Six million children and adolescents in the United States – one...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Alcohol at Wit’s End

Geoff Gray-LeeWCEE.net/Abject Street MediaStreet Media33 minutes. DVD $149.95. The scene opens in a police station as a teenage prisoner responds to his...

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Teen Births and Abortions Are Up

Teen pregnancy and abortion rates are on the rise, according to a new report, but it’s hard to know exactly why. The...

More Thoughts on the Sexual Victimization Survey

The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) has just released its first-ever nationwide survey of youth about sexual victimization in juvenile facilities, which...

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