Children and Youth

Kids & Cash
What we spend (or don't) on children says a lot about American priorities.
November/December 2004 Issue

Fostering Hope
Foster kids rarely get the chance to grow roots in a community. But in an Illinois neighborhood known as Hope Meadows, they are finding loving families, supportive social services, and an irreplaceable network of 'grandparents.'
By Rob Gurwitt
March/April 2002 Issue

Camp Fear
Gina Score was the latest teenager to die at a juvenile boot camp. Why do so many states still insist that humiliation and abuse will straighten out troubled kids?
By Bruce Selcraig
November/December 2000 Issue

Underage Unions
Child Laborers Speak Up.
By Sarah Bachman
November/December 2000 Issue

Culture Quake
Computer Games like Quake and Doom probably won't turn your son into a killer. But what is happening to kids raised on the most violent, interactive mass-media entertainment ever devised?
By Paul Keegan
November/December 1999 Issue

More Work, More Play
Your kid puts in 9 to 5 at a daycare center. New research says that could be the best thing for her.
By Deborah Blum
March/April 1999 Issue

Violence Lessons
Abusive behavior begins at home. First, the children fear it. Then they copy it.
By Claudia Glenn Dowling
July/August 1998 Issue

A Question of Abuse
An influential group of therapists is promoting a new scare: children who molest other children. Those who question the murky evidence are said to be in denial.
By Judith Levine
July/August 1996 Issue

Honey, I Warped the Kids
Hollywood still doth protest too much, while the stats on video violence pile up.
By Carl M. Cannon
July/August 1993 Issue

Only $22 Per Month
In an effort to break the cycle of poverty for one child, we adopted Martha in 1985. This year, we went to see what our money had accomplished.
By Cecilia Rodriguez & David Schrieberg
July/August 1993 Issue

Hey Kids! Try this At Home
By Alice Kahn
May/June 1993 Issue

Doors of Memory
Over the past several years, psychotherapists have helped thousands of people discover repressed memories of childhood sexual abuse. Many of these memories may be false.
By Ethan Watters
January/February 1993 Issue