Since March of late year, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there has been a 24 percent spike nationwide in mental-health-related emergency room visits among children between the ages of 5 and 11, and a 31 percent rise among those between 12 and 17, compared with the same...
Psychology Professor Abbie Goldberg has spent her career researching adoptive parents and nontraditional families, so when the pandemic hit, she reached out to families she’s followed for decades to see how they were adjusting to lifestyle challenges thrust upon them by COVID-19.
She found that adoptive families have faced unique...
In states with “joint legal custody”, neither parent has legal custody rights superior to the other parent, which creates stalemates when the parties are unable to compromise.
When an impasse arises, such as whether the child should be vaccinated, what is the correct course of action?
The...
From the Atlantic:
Even before the pandemic, kindness was the top trait that men and women wanted in a romantic partner. And the importance of kindness seems magnified now, in how people portray themselves and in what they are looking for in a partner.
Says the author...