All posts tagged "Parenting"

‘Those Kinds of Kids’: Meeting the Needs of LGBTQ Youth of Color Charged with Status Offenses

Jay is a 16-year-old black lesbian. [Editor’s Note: “Jay” is based on a composite of real stories of LGBTQ youth garnered during...

Children As Givers: Teaching Kids and Teens to be Philanthropic

April 20, 2010. People around the world were glued to their TV’s as hundreds of millions of gallons of oil gushed into...

More Kids Lived with Long-Term Unemployed Parent in ’13 than Pre-Recession

Graphic from a 2013 Urban Institute report on children of unemployed parents. More children were living with at least one long-term unemployed parent during...

Pediatricians Call for Limit on Kids’ Media Time

Cole Chanin-Hassman, 10, looks at a computer game called Minecraft on his laptop. Like many other kids his age, the Los Angeles fourth-grader counts among...

Fathers’ Involvement With Their Children: United States, 2006–2010

National Standards for the Care of Youth Charged with Status Offenses

Key Findings: Trends in the Parent-Report of Health Care Provider-Diagnosis and Medication Treatment for ADHD: United States, 2003 – 2011

Sports-Related Concussions in Youth: Improving the Science, Changing the Culture

Love Evident in Top Dropout Prevention Programs

The New Directions Alternative Education Center in Manassas, Va. won a 2013 National Dropout Prevention Network award for their work. L-R: Principal...

A New Majority: Low Income Students in the South and Nation

In New Book, Former Foster Parent Investigates the American Foster Care System

    NEW YORK — Demetrius Johnson was placed into foster care when he was only a few months old. Over the...

Changing the Course for Infants and Toddlers

How Children’s Savings Accounts Catapult Kids to College

Jonathan Cabrera working on the Computer Numerical Control machine. Photo courtesy Rochester Institute of Technology/National Technical for the Deaf. When 20-year-old Jonathan Cabrera...

One Pilot Program

A community collaborates to help families save for college  Read the main bar story How Children’s Savings Accounts Catapult Kids to College Under...

Notes from the Field: Electronic Cigarette Use Among Middle and High School Students — United States, 2011–2012

Q&A With Patrick Boyle, Author of ‘Scout’s Honor’

First, the scout leaders befriended the boys, then mentored them … and ultimately, molested them.  And then, all too often, the scout...

Poor Quality Housing Is Tied to Children’s Emotional and Behavioral Problems

Sesame Street Workshop Helps Kids with Incarcerated Parents

Kharon Benson reads letters from his imprisoned father. At age 10, Benson found out that his father was not in the military...

Where Teens Seek Online Privacy Advice

Childhood Economic Strains in Predicting Substance Use in Emerging Adulthood