Tuesday, April 3, 2018 The Topic: The Roots of Teen Suicide The News Story: Teen Suicide Is Soaring The New Research: Family Disintegration Pushes Adolescents toward Suicide in Lithuania The News Story: Teen Suicide Is Soaring The suicide rate among white children and teens rose a staggering 70% between 2010 and 2016, reports USA Today, and […]
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Tuesday, March 20, 2018 The Topic: What We Don’t Talk About in Coverage of School Shootings The News Story: What Decades Of Covering School Shootings Has Taught Me The New Research: Aggressive Teens—Permissive and Absent Parents The News Story: What Decades Of Covering School Shootings Has Taught Me Two more students are injured and the […]
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Tuesday, March 6, 2018 The Topic: Homemakers Making a Comeback? The News Story: 8 Million Mothers from 150 Countries Sign Declaration The New Research: Homemaking Mother, Mentally Happy Children The News Story: 8 Million Mothers from 150 Countries Sign Declaration As the world gears up for “International Women’s Day”—March 8—another, much lesser known group, is […]
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“This holiday season,” opens a recent story from Bloomberg, “many Americans may need a flow chart to figure how they’re all related.” In an attempt to “quantify” such trends, American researchers recently turned their focus to just how many stepfamilies exist in this country. They found that, among adults over 55 years of age, a full third have a stepchild.
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Following a U.S. trend, an upscale U.K.-based travel firm has launched “getaway weekends” for women going through a divorce.
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“In the future,” reports a Deseret News affiliate, “marriage may not dominate as ‘the institution the majority of adults live in’ as it has in the past, according to a new analysis that finds significant differences in marital status between younger and older generations.”
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