AltWeeklies Wire
The Day-Care Scarenew
Four years ago, research seemed to indicate that day care was turning out a generation of bullies. Now, new data suggest those fears were way overblown, and the national day-care debate is about to be rekindled.
Seattle Weekly |
Nina Shapiro |
10-05-2005 |
Children & Families
Tags: children & families
Losing Hanna: Lost in a Bureaucratic Mazenew
In spite of her family's pleas, 15-year-old Hanna Montessori never had her profile entered in the national missing children's database. When her photo finally appeared on the Internet, it was marked "Deceased." Second of two parts; see Part 1.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Mara Shalhoup |
08-04-2005 |
Children & Families
Tags: children & families
Losing Hanna: A 15-Year-Old Girl Goes Missingnew
Before she disappeared, Hanna Montessori bounced back and forth between her mother in Georgia, her father in Maine and group homes in Georgia. First of two parts; see Part 2.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Mara Shalhoup |
07-28-2005 |
Children & Families
Tags: children & families
Spring Creek's Short Leashnew
Montana's behavior modification programs watch their troubled teen charges like hawks. Recent lawsuits and allegations of abuse raise the question: who's watching them?
Missoula Independent |
John S. Adams |
06-16-2005 |
Children & Families
Tags: children & families
Safe Child Syndromenew
Behold the most controlling, anxiety-ridden, over-involved generation of parents ever. They're protecting their kids to death.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Beth Hawkins |
03-28-2005 |
Children & Families
Tags: children & families
Split Decisionnew
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom and his wife, Kimberly Guilfoyle Newsom, former lingerie model and prosecutor, are splitting. Take this quiz to find out if you're a teary-eyed apologist for the breakup.
SF Weekly |
Matt Palmquist |
01-19-2005 |
Children & Families
Tags: children & families
Up the Down Staircasenew
When they had their third child with Down Syndrome, a Mormon family decided Santa Claus would be coming to their home forever.
Phoenix New Times |
Amy Silverman |
11-30-2004 |
Children & Families
Tags: children & families
Doctors Rule Birth by Shootingnew
When she became a shooting victim in Springfield, a North Dakota tourist had to take antibiotics to ward off infection. The drugs counter-acted her birth
control. Nope, she didn't name the baby Colt or Winchester.
Illinois Times |
Dusty Rhodes |
10-29-2004 |
Children & Families
Tags: children & families
Voices of the South on Jobs, Politics, and Oh Yeah, Footballnew
Senior editor John Sugg and staff photographer Jim Stawniak took a 7,500-mile trip across the Southeast to find out what people are saying about jobs, unemployment, God, football and the election.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
John Sugg |
10-28-2004 |
Children & Families
Developmentally Disabled Boy Kicked Out of Cub Scoutsnew
Cub Scout pack leaders wrote to Christopher Lowe-Irby's mother and said her 7-year-old would be barred from meetings and activities "for both his safety and the other children's safety."
Riverfront Times |
Malcolm Gay |
10-26-2004 |
Children & Families
Court Case Makes it Easier for Relatives to Adopt Kinnew
If the Harris decision stands, it could mean that a far larger number of adoptive parents -- many of them relatives to the children they've adopted -- will be able to collect Social Security benefits.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Alyssa Abkowitz |
09-23-2004 |
Children & Families
Tags: children & families
Left for Dead: Governments Could Do More to Save Abandoned Babiesnew
Several newborns were abandoned in the Bay Area this summer, with each incident seeming to outdo the other in unconscionable details. If Alameda County had followed other counties' lead in promoting California's Safely Surrendered Baby Law, some of those infants' lives might have been saved.
East Bay Express |
Justin Berton |
09-14-2004 |
Children & Families
YMCA Takes Its Show on the Roadnew
The idea of Compass is simple: If there is no rec center in the neighborhood, bring one there. To tote its activities to the people, the Denver Y has outfitted two rental-size black and yellow trucks.
Westword |
Eric Dexheimer |
09-07-2004 |
Children & Families
Tags: children & families
The Term May Be Antiquated, but Orphanages Are Returningnew
A report by a child advocacy group has turned up the heat on the debate over orphanages. Do they do more harm than good? Or are they a necessary safety net for children who can't find a place in the traditional foster system, especially a system as flawed as Georgia's?
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Steve Fennessy |
08-19-2004 |
Children & Families
Tags: children & families
Brothers Who Claim Abuse by Priest Want Closure from the Churchnew
The Morrison boys were fond of the pastor of St. Peter's Catholic Church in Jackson, George Broussard, when they were growing up, and he was fond of them. Two years ago, the brothers filed a lawsuit against Broussard and other church officials, including then vicar general Bernard Francis Law, claiming Broussard fondled all three of them in the 1970s. Note: The main characters of the piece currently live in Jackson, Miss., near Dallas, and in Chicago.
Jackson Free Press |
Donna Ladd |
08-07-2004 |
Children & Families
