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Social Justice

Why You Should Be Alarmed About Pediatric Emergency Care in the U.S.

The vast majority of doctors working in emergency care have received only four months of training in pediatrics, and what they learned about treating full-grown adults rarely translates well.

Joan Bregstein

Education

Meet the Groups That Are Fighting Against Limits on Restraining School Kids

Republicans say it is a matter of states’ rights.

Heather Vogell

Social Justice

How to Design an Effective Plea for Donations

Two new studies suggest an image of a single needy child is most effective, so long as you avoid the temptation to go with the most photogenic victims.

Tom Jacobs

News in Brief

America’s Unseen Export: Children, Most of Them Black

The theories and policies that govern American adoptions are out of date. At least until they’re changed—to keep state and private agencies from applying the law in such a way as to prioritize heterosexual couples—you can expect the outgoing adoption industry to continue growing, raising important questions about race and rights.

Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza

Economics

The Majority of Stay-at-Home Dads Aren’t Staying Home to Care for the Family

A close look at a Pew Social Trends report.

Philip N. Cohen

Social Justice

Mothers (and Others) Can Make Good Fathers, Too

It’s time for a less strict and judgmental definition of what makes for a functioning family.

Michele Weldon

Social Justice

Should We Take Away the Children of Those Who Are Mentally Ill?

Mindi has never harmed her daughter and is capably raising a son, but authorities took her daughter under a concept sometimes called “predictive neglect.”

Seth Freed Wessler