Children

For the second year in a row, the Obama Administration is skirting a new law that prohibits U.S. security aid to countries that use child soldiers. Signed into law only three years ago by President Bush, the Child Soldier Prevention Act is designed to encourage countries to disarm, demobilize and reintegrate child soldiers by restricting […]

Last year in the lead up to Halloween I published the piece, Is Halloween Getting too Sexy for Kids? Four years ago on Halloween I brought you the article, Too Sexy For Your Kids? | Children, where I discussed how our children are over-sexualized. The issue can be far reaching: from what is playing on […]

Last month, UNICEF announced that the child mortality rate has dropped substantially.  The new estimates are published in the 2011 report Levels & Trends in Child Mortality, issued by the UN Inter-Agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (IGME), which is led by UNICEF and the WHO with participation from the World Bank and the UN […]

October is TransFair USA’s Fair Trade Month, and the 2011 theme is “Every Purchase Matters.”  The goal behind this year’s theme is to illustrate how individuals can get involved with fair trade and what impact that can have on farmers and laborers across the globe. The month of October is dedicated to increasing consumer awareness of what fair […]

As a follow-up to the recent post, Bring an end to cyber bullying, it is appropriate to share the story of one mother’s plea to see that anti-gay bullying is denounced by Congress.  Tammy Aaberg  is the mother of a gay high school student from Minnesota who committed suicide after being harassed and bullied by […]

Last Spring I brought you the piece, Bullying is Abuse, regarding the case of 15 year-old Phoebe Prince, who committed suicide in Boston following instances of bulling.  Now with technology in every child’s hands bullying is even easier, quicker and can be more widespread with only the click of a button or mouse. Children can easily text […]

I don’t know about you, but in the morning the first thing I do after hitting snooze a few times is start to dream about my first cup of coffee.  I jump from the bed all energized thinking about the aroma of that hot cup of dark wonder…  as if I can already smell it.  […]

In 2008 international rumors and reports flared in China that the controversial one-child-per-couple law may be coming to an end, however the rumors turned out to be just that and the law was then set to remain in effect for at least the next decade according to government officials. The  statement by the Chinese government […]

Saving a the life of a child is truly simple, yet all too often children suffer and die needlessly.  This year alone across the globe some two million children will die from preventable diseases.  These children will suffer and die from diseases that here in the United States are nothing more than a faded memory, […]

A new report on women and children has stated that “more than 350 000 women die each year in the developing world from complications of childbirth and pregnancy. As many as 2.6 million babies are stillborn annually, and 3 million of the more than 8 million children under five who die each year succumb in […]

Did you know that there is an estimated 14,500 to 17,500 foreign nationals trafficked into the United States each year?  Shockingly the number of U.S. citizens trafficked within the country is even higher, with an estimated 200,000 American children at risk for trafficking into the sex industry.  The average age of entry for children victimized […]

Abuse is abuse and one must take verbal assaults and abuse just as serious as physical abuse.  The harsh reality is that verbal abuse is often just a precursor for physical abuse, additionally verbal abuse can also be sexual assault. Yes, sexual assault can be verbal or visible with an abuser talking sexually (describing what […]