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Report: Thousands of U.S.-Born Kids Languish in Foster Care As Immigrant Parents Detained, Deported

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez - Nov. 10 (Special Report) - A new report looks at how thousands of U.S.-born children are being sent to foster care when their non-U.S. citizen parents are detained or deported. The Applied Research Center investigation, "Shattered Families: The Perilous Intersection of Immigration Enforcement and the Child Welfare System,” finds there are at least 5,100 children currently living in foster care — who are prevented from uniting with their detained or deported parents. If nothing changes, researchers found some 15,000 more children may end up in foster care in the next five years. We speak with Seth Freed Wessler, the principal investigator of the report. [Transcript to come. Check back soon.]

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It's the Ads, Stupid: Why TV Leads to Obesity

Tue, 28 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Time - By Alice Park - Jun. 28 (News) - How much TV do your kids watch? If you don't know, you might want to find out, say experts, since the time children spend in front of a TV or computer screen can have a profound effect on their physical and developmental health.

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The Hardest Cases: When Children Die, Justice Can Be Elusive

Tue, 28 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

ProPublica - By A.C. Thompson, Chisun Lee, Joe Shapiro, Sandra Bartlet - Jun. 28 (Investigative Report) - If Lopez is ultimately exonerated, his case will not be unique. An investigation by ProPublica, PBS "Frontline" and NPR has found that medical examiners and coroners have repeatedly mishandled cases of infant and child deaths, helping to put innocent people behind bars.

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The military children left behind: Decrepit schools, broken promises

Mon, 27 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

iWatch News - By Kristen Lombardi - Jun. 27 (Special Report) - The nation’s reliance on a limited pool of volunteers to safeguard U.S. interests and wage two wars has had ripple effects on the home front. Altogether, parents of 220,000 children — including 116,000 of school-age — are currently doing the work the nation expects of them and that sends them far from home.

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China shuts battery factories due to lead poisoning

Mon, 30 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - May. 30 (News) - Battery factories across China have been closed amid fears about poisoning from metals used by the industry. About 74 people have been detained after reports that more than 100 people, including children, were effected [sic] by lead and cadmium poisoning.

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Circumcision Ban to Appear on San Francisco Ballot

Wed, 18 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - By Staff writers - May. 18 (News) - An initiative that would ban the circumcision of males younger than 18 in San Francisco has received enough signatures to appear on the ballot. The practice would become a misdemeanor.

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Iraq's abandoned children

Tue, 10 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Aljazeera - By Jane Arraf - May. 10 (Special Report) - there are just four small orphanages in the capital, Baghdad - none of them filled to capacity. The Iraqi government says that relatives would rather abandon children they are unable to take care of than bear the shame of bringing them to an orphanage.

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Do Girl Scout Cookies Harm the Environment?

Thu, 05 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Time - By Tara Kelly - May. 05 (Special Report) - Girl Scout cookie lovers, beware. Because of palm oil, a key ingredient, those delicious and addictive treats may not be as innocent as they seem. Not only is the ingredient linked to child labor in Indonesia, but it also allegedly contributes to rainforest deforestation.

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Roger Vangheluwe, Child-Abusing Former Belgian Bishop, Reveals All In Shocking Interview

Sat, 16 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - Apr. 16 (News Report) - A former bishop's televised admission that he sexually abused two of his nephews caused an uproar in Belgium on Friday, with the prime minister, senior clergy and a prosecutor expressing shock at the way the ex-prelate made light of his offenses. In an interview that aired Thursday Roger Vangheluwe, the former bishop of Bruges, spoke of his sexual abuse as "a little game," that involved fondling, but no "rough sex."

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Budget Cuts Funds for Poor, Police, Environment and Health Care

Wed, 13 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

readersupportednews.org - By Lisa Mascaro - Apr. 13 (News Report) - The previously undisclosed reductions stunned advocates for community health centers, foreign aid and climate change research. Among the cuts is a $500-million reduction in funding for the federal health and nutrition program for women, infants and children, known as WIC.

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'Best' Places to Live With Autism All in Major Metro Areas: Survey

Wed, 13 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

U.S. News & World Report - By Jenifer Goodwin - Apr. 13 (News) - Even so, three-fourths of families polled nationwide said they had difficulty accessing needed services

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Nuclear Catastrophe in Japan “Not Equal to Chernobyl, But Way Worse”

Tue, 12 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Thomas Breuer, Amy Goodman - Apr. 12 (News Analysis) - Japan has raised the severity rating of its nuclear crisis from 5 to 7, the highest level, matching the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster. We go to Tokyo for an update from Thomas Breuer, head of the Climate and Energy Unit for Greenpeace Germany and part of a field of radiation monitors in Japan. He notes that unlike Chernobyl, the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is in a densely populated area. “We warned the government that there are a lot of cities and villages outside the 20-kilometers evacuation zone where the radiation levels are so high that people need urgently to be evacuated, especially children and pregnant women, because they are the most vulnerable part of the population to radiation,” says Breuer. [includes rush transcript]

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China says milk was tainted with nitrite intentionally

Mon, 11 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - Apr. 11 (News) - Investigators have found that a tainted milk incident in north-west China which killed three children appears to be a case of intentional poisoning and have detained a suspect, state media said.

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Why Fire Teachers?

Tue, 08 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Atlantic Monthly - By Megan McArdle - Mar. 08 (Opinion) - I think there are some jobs that are too important to let any consideration intrude other than the best way to get the job done. Nuclear power plants, firefighters, poison control--I don't want to let other social goals, no matter how laudable, hamper their mission. Teaching is one of those jobs.

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The New Normal

Tue, 01 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By David Brooks - Mar. 01 (Opinion) - Since we have to cut the deficit, we might as well learn to do it wisely. Starting with education.

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In Defense of the Western Mom

Sat, 15 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Wall Street Journal - By Ayelet Waldman - Jan. 15 (Opinion) - Here are some of the things that my four children of a Jewish mother were always allowed to do: • Quit the piano and the violin, especially if their defeatist attitude coincided with a recital, thus saving me from the torture of listening to other people's precious children soldier through hackneyed pieces of the juvenile repertoire, plink after ever more unbearable plonk. • Sleep over at their friends' houses, especially on New Year's Eve or our anniversary, thus saving us the cost of a babysitter. • Play on the computer and surf the Internet, so long as they paid for their Neopet Usuki dolls and World of Warcraft abomination cleavers out of their own allowances. • Participate in any extracurricular activity they wanted, so long as I was never required to drive farther than 10 minutes to get them there, or to sit on a field in a folding chair in anything but the balmiest weather for any longer than 60 minutes. • Quit said extracurricular activities, especially if their quitting coincided with league finals that might have demanded participation on my part exceeding the requirements stated above. In the days since this newspaper published Amy Chua's simultaneously entertaining and infuriating excerpt from her new book, "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother," my two elder children, 16 and 13, have devoted a remarkable amount of time to raging against the essay and crafting compelling and bombastic rebuttals to be delivered to Ms. Chua herself, should they ever encounter her.

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At Victim's School, Shock, Sorrow and Nightmares

Tue, 11 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Jennifer Medina - Jan. 11 (News) - As classes at Mesa Verde resumed for the first time since the shooting on Saturday that killed six people, including 9-year-old Christina, the school grappled with how to talk about the tragedy with the young students here.

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Closing The Achievement Gap With Baby Talk

Mon, 10 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

NPR - Jan. 10 - A child growing up in a poor home hears fewer words per hour on average than a child in a higher-income household, research has shown. So around the country, programs are trying to reduce the achievement gap by getting parents to talk more to their kids.

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Government bans traditional cribs

Wed, 15 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Baltimore Sun - By Patricia Callahan, Ellen Gabler - Dec. 15 (News) - In an effort to eliminate hidden hazards that caused babies throughout the country to die in their cribs, the nation's top regulator of children's products today passed the toughest safety rules for cribs in history, including a ban on the sale and manufacture of models with sides that drop down.

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iPhones for Toddlers

Sat, 16 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - Oct. 16 (News Report) - The bedroom door opened and a light went on, signaling an end to nap time. The toddler, tousle-haired and sleepy-eyed, clambered to a wobbly stand in his crib. He smiled, reached out to his father, and uttered what is fast becoming the cry of his generation: “iPhone!”

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Major health insurers to stop offering new child-only policies

Mon, 20 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By N.C. Aizenman - Sep. 20 (News) - Some of the country's most prominent health insurance companies have decided to stop offering new child-only plans, rather than comply with rules in the new health-care law that will require such plans to start accepting children with preexisting medical conditions after Sept. 23.

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In their nurture

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Nature - By Lizzie Buchen - Sep. 08 (News Analysis) - Can epigenetics underlie the enduring effects of a mother's love? Lizzie Buchen investigates the criticisms of a landmark study and the controversial field to which it gave birth.

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In Young Kids, Lack Of Sleep Linked To Obesity Later

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

NPR - Sep. 07 (News Report) - Can you sleep away pounds? Well, not exactly, but research has shown that people who sleep a good eight hours-plus are more likely to maintain a normal weight than those who sleep less than eight hours a night. Now, a new study finds that even for infants and preschoolers, a good, long night's sleep may be just as important as diet and physical activity. Over the past three decades, obesity rates have doubled among children age 2 to 5, and tripled among 6- to 11-year-olds. So University of Washington maternal and child health researcher Janice Bell wanted to know whether sleep had anything to do with it. She looked at federal data collected on nearly 2,000 children and compared those who slept 10 hours or more a night with those who slept less. She also looked at how much the children weighed over a five-year period. The most striking findings had to do with infants and toddlers. The study appears in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. "They were nearly twice as likely to move from normal weight to overweight, or overweight to obese in that five-year period," she says.

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Why Johnny Can't Name His Colors

Sat, 17 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Scientific American - By Melody Dye - Jul. 17 (News Report) - No, the kid's probably not color blind. A trick for teaching children colors at a younger age -- and why it is otherwise so hard for them.

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Wait to clamp umbilical cord, study says

Tue, 25 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

MSNBC - By Robin Nixon - May. 25 (News Report) - Usually within the first minute of birth, the umbilical cord running between mother and infant is clamped. But this may be too fast, researchers say.

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