Children
Posted August 30th, 2010 by Alice Shabecoff
To: Everyone in the San Francisco Area Here’s a huge and unprecedented opportunity to take action to stop the toxic assault that threatens our communities and our children. Here’s a huge and unprecedented opportunity to take action to stop the toxic assault that threatens our communities and our children. Right now some serious reforms to [...]
Posted August 12th, 2010 by Renee Blanchard
I’m starting to feel like a broken record, but I guess that’s what happens when you really care about something. Children are a vulnerable population. They eat more food, breathe more air, and drink more liquids per pound than adults. They are also more curious exploring the world around them in more tactile ways than [...]
Posted August 2nd, 2010 by Joe Newman
Sometimes the hardest part about getting your children to eat healthy food and fight child obesity is getting them to choose the healthy food option. Here’s the behavior methods that show you the way to guide them to healthy food choices
Posted August 2nd, 2010 by Claire McAndrew
Q: I work in a small business. We just learned that our premium is going up 33% so we will need to go with a different, less expensive plan with less generous benefits. Will the Department of Health and Human Services ever be looking to scrutinize these types of rate hikes to see if these [...]
Posted July 25th, 2010 by Rachel Roth
Rigid foster care rules threaten to dissolve family ties when mothers are in prison or residential drug treatment. A new law in New York State takes steps to help these families weather the separation.
Posted July 23rd, 2010 by Queen Noor of Jordan
MomsRising, I am one of you- a loving mother deeply concerned about the world my children and theirs will inherit from us. That is the most important reason that I became a founding leader of Global Zero (globalzero.org) and consulted on our new must see film, Countdown to Zero. The film is a stunning documentary [...]
Posted July 21st, 2010 by Alice Shabecoff
Why do we write about, talk about, meet about and in general complain about children’s chronic illnesses in the U.S. when statistics show that, year by year, we Americans are living to an ever riper old age? That’s a favorite gotcha question, intended to squash or at least minimize the impact of the damage we [...]
Posted July 13th, 2010 by Homa Tavangar
The euphoria of the final World Cup match is over and so many people around the world don’t know what to do with themselves. Summer 2010 has been marked by one nation after another facing off in the stunning World Cup, with the entire world (especially the Americans, more than ever before in the game’s [...]
Posted June 24th, 2010 by Say Ahhh!
The Restemayers’ story is a powerful reminder of why we all need to be rolling up our sleeves and making sure that health care reform works as intended for families and children.
Posted June 4th, 2010 by ACLU
By Suzanne Ito, ACLU Imagine this scenario: You just had a baby. You might be a tad tired; in a bit of a stupor, perhaps. A hospital employee —maybe your doctor or nurse — hands you a 32-page pamphlet explaining what will be done with your baby’s DNA sample after it’s tested for disease. You [...]
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