05
2017
Children in single-mother-by-choice families do just as well as those in two-parent families
A study comparing the well-being of children growing up in single-mother-by-choice and heterosexual two-parent families has found no differences in terms of parent-child relationship or child development. However, the study did find that the single-mothers-by-choice did have a greater social support network.
03
2017
Childhood psychiatric disorders increase risk for later adult addiction
Children’s health and well-being while growing up can be indicators of the potential health issues they may encounter years later. A new study suggests that a childhood psychiatric disorder increases the risk of developing addiction later in life.
03
2017Relax and Let Your Kids Indulge in TV
Contributing Op-Ed Writer July 3, 2017 Lisa Pryor By LISA PRYOR SYDNEY, Australia — My mother blames my father. Born before television arrived in Australia, let alone the coastal towns and logging villages where he grew up, he never tired of its novelty. From the first time he glimpsed it in snowy black and white on a visit to the city in 1960, he was…
03
2017
Want To Teach Your Kids Self-Control? Ask A Cameroonian Farmer
In the the 1960s, a Stanford psychologist ran an experiment to study children’s self-control. It’s called the marshmallow test. And it’s super simple. Kids ages 3 to 5 choose a treat — an Oreo cookie, a pretzel stick or a marshmallow. Then researchers give the child brief instructions: You can eat the treat now … but if you can wait for me to return, you’ll…
02
2017
In Fighting Abuse By Members Of Catholic Church Clergy, Victim Sees Resistance To Change
NPR’s Lulu Garcia-Navarro discusses the Catholic Church’s response to its sexual abuse scandal with Marie Collins, who recently resigned from the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors.
01
2017
‘Healing Children’: A Surgeon’s Take On What Kids Need
Enlarge this image Dr. Kurt Newman visits with 14-year-old Jack Pessaud, who’s undergoing treatment for a cancerous tumor in his knee at Children’s National Health System in Washington, D.C. Meredith Rizzo/NPR hide caption toggle caption Meredith Rizzo/NPR For parents, the thought of a child being sick or hurt can be a heart-stopper. Fortunately, for those who do confront such realities, there are doctors like Kurt…
30
2017
For Newborns Exposed To Opioids, Health Issues May Be The Least Of Their Problems
Enlarge this image Babies exposed to opioids in utero may experience withdrawal symptoms at birth, but these symptoms are treatable. Typically, the babies can go home after a few days or a couple weeks. Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Getty Images Among the troubling developments of the nation’s opioid crisis: a large number of babies born prenatally exposed to opioids. On a recent reporting…
30
2017The Travel Ban, and an Appalled Grandma
June 30, 2017 To the Editor: Re “Stepsister, Yes; Grandma, No: U.S. Sets Guidelines for Revised Travel Ban” (nytimes.com, June 28): In addition to being appalled by the travel ban to begin with, not to mention everything else this outrageous president does, I cannot believe that grandparents are now not “close family.” I am the grandmother of four and believe I am an important part…
30
2017How Diksha Basu, a Novelist, Spends Her Sundays
June 30, 2017 Sunday Routine By SHIVANI VORA The novelist Diksha Basu will write on a Sunday, but only when the mood strikes. “I can only write when I feel creative and the words flow, and that’s not something you can plan for,” said Ms. Basu, who is working on her second novel. Her first, “The Windfall,” about a family who comes into a large…
30
2017Blood Lines: Fishing With My Daughter
June 30, 2017 By BENEDICT COSGROVE For a little while before the sun came up, we could imagine we were alone on the dark waves, a solitary boat beneath a full moon. The sound of the boat’s motor chugging along made the silence around us feel more encompassing, somehow. We had the whole of that immensity — 18,000 acres of scattered islands, brackish waterways and…