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.
Read MoreIncreasing Mortality and Decreasing Fertility in America In late 2016, news sources across the U.S. reported a sobering statistic: The average life expectancy of Americans had fallen for the first time since 1993. The numbers are not, in some ways, startling. For an American man born in 2015, the average life expectancy dropped from 76.5 […]
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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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Sexuality and Gender: Findings from the Biological, Psychological, and Social Sciences Lawrence S. Mayer & Paul R. McHugh The New Atlantis, Fall 2016 Lawrence Mayer and Paul McHugh, authors of the new special report Sexuality and Gender: Findings from the Biological, Psychological, and Social Sciences published earlier this year by The New Atlantis, close their […]
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Independent Global Index on Family: Report 2016 on the Right of Family in the World Luca Volontè, Francesca Maccioni, Giovanna Rossi, Maria Letizia Bosoni, and Vera Lomazzi Novae Terrae Foundation and the Family Studies and Research University Centre of the Catholic University of Milan, July 2016 Where in the world is the best place to […]
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America’s Bitter – Pill Money, Politics, Backroom Deals, and the Fight to Fix Our Broken Healthcare System Steven Brill Random House, 2015; 528 pages, $28.00 Anyone who has ever been to see the doctor and subsequently received one of those mysterious documents called an “EOB” or “Explanation of Benefits” will appreciate the central tenet of […]
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