All posts tagged "Parenting"

New Pew Study Looks at Teens, Online Privacy and Where Kids Turn for Help

A report recently published by Pew Internet & American Life Project finds that seven out of 10 kids in the United States...

N.Y. Film Festival Unites New Yorkers to be Better Fathers

NEW YORK CITY, N.Y. — They sat in a room, father and son, with cash stacked to the ceiling, seemingly all the...

Poor Children More Likely to Smoke, But Less Likely to Binge Drink, According to Duke Study

According to researchers at Duke University, children who grew up in poverty are more likely to become cigarette smokers as adults —...

Childcare Experts Urge Attention to Adult in Child Welfare

Approximately 200 state lawmakers, staff and advocates from across the country at a child welfare forum at the National Conference of State Legislatures...

Fatherhood the Focus of NY Film Festival

What is a father? While the word itself may seem simple and straightforward, the concept of fatherhood is complex and open to...

Serious Fighting-Related Injuries Produce a Significant Reduction in Intelligence

Poverty and Education: Finding the Way Forward

America’s Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2013

Early Puberty and Childhood Social and Behavioral Adjustment

Out Online: The Experiences of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Youth on the Internet

Effects of State Medical Marijuana Laws on Adolescent Marijuana Use

The Annie E. Casey Foundation: 2013 KIDS COUNT Data Book

Tighter Income Requirements for Child Care Assistance in Kentucky

Beginning this month, maximum income requirements for some child care services in Kentucky will become more restrictive, with the cutoff for a...

Types of Alcohol Use Experience From Childhood Through Adolescence

The Comeback States – Reducing Youth Incarceration in the United States

Supreme Court Rules on Native American Adoption Case

Arriving quietly Wednesday between the Supreme Court’s historic rulings on gay marriage was a ruling that will have lasting and significant impacts...

How Does Father Absenteeism Affect Children?

Kenneth Braswell, executive director of Fathers Incorporated, recalled an event when his daughter was in the second grade. While playing at school...

KIDS COUNT: State of the Child in Tennessee

Neighborhoods and Infectious Disease Risk: Acquisition of Chlamydia during the Transition to Young Adulthood

Declines in State Teen Birth Rates by Race and Hispanic Origin