NPR released an article: “As U.S. COVID hospitalizations rise, some places are bringing mask mandates back.”
The U.S. is seeing a late-summer spike in COVID cases, prompting some schools, hospitals and businesses to encourage — or even require — people to start masking up again.
The most recent
Parental Alienation: A Disputed Theory With Big Implications

ProPublica has been reporting on family courts’ handling of custody disputes that involve allegations of child or domestic abuse. The reporting shows that a disputed psychological theory that’s been rejected by mainstream scientists has widespread influence on outcomes in family court.
Parental alienation is a theory in which one parent...
Be Bored

From the New York Times: I am hardly alone in feeling like it is my parental duty to stuff their days full of activities and learning opportunities.
A study cited in a 2018 New York Times article that lamented the relentlessness of modern parenting found that regardless of education, income or...
Sexual and Gender Minority Adverse Childhood Experiences Scale

The American Journal of Preventive Medicine includes an article: “The
Sexual and Gender Minority Adverse Childhood Experiences Scale”, by Phillip W. Schnarrs, et al.
Here’s the abstract:
- Introduction
Sexual and gender minority adverse childhood experiences (SGM-ACEs) are...