Youth Today
All posts tagged "Parenting"
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Foster Care Until 21 Should Be the Rule, Not the Exception
It has become the most poignant image of foster care in America: the plastic garbage bag. That’s the luggage that 18-year-olds often...
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Abusive Head Trauma Cases Involving Young Children Increased During Recession
Abusive Head Trauma During a Time of Increased Unemployment: A Multicenter Analysis Pediatrics The number of abusive head trauma injuries to children...
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It’s not the recession, it’s the RESPONSE to the recession
The long decline in the number of children in foster care slowed significantly in 2010 and the decline in entries into care...
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Downward Mobility from the Middle Class: Waking Up from the American Dream
The Pew Charitable Trusts One-third of Americans who grow up in a middle-class family, defined as between 30 percent and 70 percent...
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Harriet Boorhem: Youth Today’s Online Diarist
It’s awesome and a bit scary to see your children speak out on issues about which they are passionate. I have two...
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Jobs a Major Challenge for Low-Income Families, Report Finds
The number of American children living with job-seeking, unemployed adults has doubled since 2007 and nearly a third of children live in...
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Civil Union Laws Can Spell End of Child Welfare Services for Faith-based Groups
Most states that have approved same-sex marriage or civil unions have not lost the services of faith-based child welfare providers, but the...
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America’s Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2011
Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics The largest annual collection of indicators on the health, behavior and circumstances of American...
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Less Than Citizens
In a move contrary to the most cherished of American values, a band of ultraconservative activists is targeting the U.S.-born children of...
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Harriet Boorhem: Youth Today’s Online Diarist
Entry 12: Looking Back on a Decade I have been President of Promise House for ten years this month and with the...
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Supreme Court Declines to Rule on Fourth Amendment Rights in Child Abuse Interviews
The U.S. Supreme Court today declined to rule on the constitutional questioned posed by Camreta v. Greene and Alford v. Greene, cases...
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Harriet Boorhem: Youth Today’s Online Diarist
Entry 11: Monday Sucks! So far, Monday sucks. I just had to tell my Parents with Promise staff that Congress, in all...
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Harriet Boorhem: Youth Today’s Online Diarist
Entries 8 and 9: Stressors and Storytelling March 31 So……I’m sitting at my desk today and see two police cars in front...
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Evidence-Based Practices for Children Exposed to Violence: A Selection from Federal Databases
U.S. Department of Justice/U.S. Department of Health and Human Services This report summarizes findings and evidence from federal reviews of research studies...
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Cities Discuss Plans to Curb Youth Violence at Justice Department Forum
Pastor Billy Kyles, asked to deliver the keynote address at this week’s National Forum on Youth Violence Prevention, talked to the audience...
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Texas Sued over Services for Long-Term Foster Youth
Nonprofit litigator Children’s Rights has sued the State of Texas, accusing its child welfare system of failing to transition foster children back...
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High Court Should Not Limit Police In Schools
Tomorrow, the United States Supreme Court will consider a case tomorrow which questions how criminal procedural rights, the Miranda Warning, apply in...
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Police, Juveniles and Schools: Three Key Questions on Today’s Supreme Court Case
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in J.D.B. v North Carolina this morning, a case in which a 13-year-old was...
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Supreme Court Mulls Rules for Child Abuse Interviews on School Grounds
The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments today in the first of two cases this month about how state officials can interact...
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Children’s Rights should include the Constitution’s #4
It had begun as an ordinary school day in Bend, Ore. for a nine-year-old girl I’ll call Sharon. But in the afternoon,...
