http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/chechnya-parents-kill-gay-sons-russia-region-government-chechen-leader-ramzan-kadyrov-a7714591.html?cmpid=facebook-post Chechen police are reportedly urging parents to kill their gay children, according to survivor testimony from one man held in a “gay torture camp” in the country. Authorities have been telling parents of gay men to “sort it out” or the state will intervene, the victim, who has notContinue Reading

BREAKING: New Study Documents Psychological Horrors of Six-Year War on Syrian Children https://t.co/gdmqai1qng #SaveSyriasChildren pic.twitter.com/d6TczmmoDi — Save the Children US (@SavetheChildren) March 6, 2017 Save the Children and its Syrian partners interviewed more than 450 children, adolescents and adults across seven regions in Syria for “Invisible Wounds,” the largest andContinue Reading

“The thing we learned is how to deal with violence.” https://t.co/RFBLqiWDxe pic.twitter.com/q6BaRhjks3 — RNZ (@radionz) February 13, 2017 “They’d lock them up in the isolation cells in an octagonal building with eight cells. The kids would be put in those isolation cells for anything up to three months. Some ofContinue Reading

#Trump has selected Myron Ebell, a climate change and global warming skeptic, to lead the @EPA transition team. https://t.co/xRek0umjnn pic.twitter.com/jQuplxCHm7 – Jeffrey Guterman (@JeffreyGuterman) November 11, 2016 http://www.webmd.com/children/news/20071029/global-warming-threat-to-kids-health According to the group’s report, examples of the effects global warming could have on children’s health include: Increased susceptibility to injury orContinue Reading

Researchers caution about potential harms of parents’ online posts about children https://t.co/gkGxYKqDok — PsyPost.org (@PsyPost) October 25, 2016 \ What parents share with others about their children in today’s digital age presents new and often unanticipated risks, according to new research presented at the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) 2016Continue Reading

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/77061764/christchurch-caretaker-raped-violated-schoolgirls-in-underground-shed A school caretaker and part-time teacher who sexually violated girls in his underground shed has been struck off the teachers’ register. Twelve Christchurch primary school girls, three of them disabled, were repeatedly raped, sexually violated, indecently assaulted, or made to watch pornography in the caretaker’s shed or on aContinue Reading

http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/bipolar-disorder-in-children-and-teens-easy-to-read/index.shtml Does your child go through intense mood changes? Does your child have extreme behavior changes too? Does your child get too excited or silly sometimes? Do you notice he or she is very sad at other times? Do these changes affect how your child acts at school or atContinue Reading