Laws against hitting children
Take a look at this list of countries where all corporal punishment against children, including in the home, is now legally prohibited: Sweden (1979) Finland (1983) Norway (1987) Austria (1989) Cyprus...
View ArticleMother's touch can improve cognitive function and stress resilience
A new study out of U.C. Irvine by neurologist Dr. Tallie Z. Baram has found that caressing and other sensory input triggers activity in a baby’s developing brain that improves cognitive function and...
View ArticleChild abuse changes victims' DNA
Many people believe that if a child is too young to remember wrongs done to the child, that it doesn’t matter. A number of them harm innocent children and babies in misguided attempts to relieve their...
View ArticleFather Tosses Toddler Into Traffic; Mother Defends Him
A 21-year old Oakland man shook his 18 month old daughter and threw her into traffic, according to an undercover police officer who saw it happen. The incident occurred on Fifth Avenue near East 15th...
View ArticleBrazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva proposes ban on spanking
Kudos to Brazil's President, an inspiring individual and one of Time Magazine's Most Influential People for 2010, for referring a bill to the Brazilian Congress banning corporal punishment of children...
View ArticleResearchers Find Link Between Domestic Violence and Childhood Obesity
According to a recently published study conducted by Renée Boynton-Jarrett, MD, ScD, of Boston University, and colleagues, children whose mothers are subject to chronic violence are 1.8 times more...
View ArticleChildhood physical abuse leads to significant elevation in heart disease risk
A new study out of the University of Toronto published in the journal Child Abuse and Neglect has found a strong connection between childhood physical abuse and higher incidence of heart disease. The...
View ArticleRecent Studies Find Harsh Rates of Child Abuse Worldwide and US Senators...
Three particularly important studies have been released out of the University of North Carolina's Injury Prevention Research Center. The first, authored by Desmond Runyan, MD, DrPH, professor of...
View ArticleVery frank and informative article on the sexual culture in Afghanistan
I came across this article in the San Francisco Chronicle written by Joel Brinkley, professor of journalism at Stanford University and former Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent for the New...
View ArticleMasquerading as devoted middle-class dad
Frequently child abusers hide their cruelty from the world, pretend to be wholly decent upstanding citizens, and make their children live with the secret pain of abuse. Such is the case in this story,...
View ArticleCourt finds child victim can testify behind protective screen
In a recent court opinion, published on August 26, 2010, People v. Rose, the Michigan Court of Appeals allowed a child victim in a sexual abuse trial to testify behind a protective screen, finding...
View ArticleScientists have found that brain stem cells can be awakened leading to...
In 2008, Scientists at Schepens Eye Research Institute found that neural stem cells (which are capable of regeneration) exist in every part of the brain, not only in the the subgranular zone (SGZ) of...
View ArticleAdults abused in childhood found likely to have shorter lifespans and...
Researchers have found a link between childhood abuse and health adversity and decreased lifespans in adulthood. Janice Kiecolt-Glaser, professor of psychology and psychiatry at Ohio State University...
View ArticleTed Lempert's Children Now, Senator Joe Simitian. and Martin Teicher's Webminar
Former California Assemblymember Ted Lempert now heads a children's research and advocacy organization called Children Now. Particularly strong on issues of education and health care, Children Now...
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