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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Kids Grade Adults

Call it divine retribution for kids, or at least 1,028 of them. Chicago’s Uhlich Children’s Home got 12- to 19-year-olds together to...

News

When Mom or Dad is Locked Up

By Amy Bracken Jessup, Md.—Lowell Gibson lives 15 miles from her nine-year-old son but hasn’t seen him in three years. When...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

I Don’t Know What the Word ‘Mommy’ Means

By Youniqiue Symone, 16 If you looked at any of my baby pictures, you would see a happy little girl who was...

► Newsmakers

Trumpeting For Fatherhood

It has been a sterling year so far for fathers, at least for GOP advocates of pro-father policies. But first we note...

Fatherhood Impact

BY SUE BADEAU The Congressional Fatherhood Task Force may be responsible for one of the few youth-related pieces of legislation to survive...

► Reports

Fatherhood and Television: An Evaluation of Fatherhood Portrayals on Prime Time Television

To determine what messages about fatherhood children are likely to find on television, the NFI reviewed every prime time television show on...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

The Wrong Choice for Me

BY SARAH DEVEAU It was my second ultrasound. I had been bleeding heavily, even though it was only the seventh week of...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Be Grateful There’s a Choice To Make

BY ROBIN THOMPSON Since women began to really stand up for their rights in the ’60s, abortion has been...

► Reports

Are Teens in Low-Income and Welfare Families Working Too Much?

Robert Lerman The Urban Institute This study uses data from the Urban Institute’s National Survey of American Families (NSAF) to see how...

Research

Teen Pregnancy Drops, But Why?

Pregnancy rates among teenagers are at the lowest they’ve been since the government began recording such data in 1976, according to a...

► Reports

Teens and Their Parents in the 21st Century: An Examination of Trends in Teen Behavior and the Role of Parental Involvement

This report by a White House advisory body uses statistical evidence to back up intuition: that greater parental involvement reduces a teen’s...

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Fatherhood Sites Get Help from U.S.

Ten states have been selected to participate in a waiver demonstration program designed to improve the opportunities of young, unmarried fathers to...

Research

Witnessing Violence at Home

With financial support from Microsoft Corporation and Children’s Television Workshop (creators of “Sesame Street”), and with guidance from the latter, the National...

News

Community Fatherhood Groups Battle For Existence, Recruits and Money

Florence, S.C.—Enveloped in the picturesque, seductive spring greenery and perfumed breezes of this sprawling Up Country Southern city, but left out of...

News