AltWeeklies Wire
Still Life with Street Kidsnew
With its mild climate and generous citizenry, Missoula provides relative abundance this time of year, and so as the weather warms, the street kids come into season.
Missoula Independent |
John S. Adams |
07-06-2006 |
Children & Families
Tags: children & families
Leaving WWASPS' Nestnew
With the World Wide Association of Specialty Programs and Schools under increasing media scrutiny, Montana's Spring Creek Lodge decides to go it alone.
Missoula Independent |
John S. Adams |
06-30-2006 |
Children & Families
Tags: children & families
Throwaway Kidsnew
Thousands of foster children leave county care for a dangerous and desperate life on the streets.
Pasadena Weekly |
Joe Piasecki |
06-27-2006 |
Children & Families
Tags: children & families
Taking a Beatingnew
Florida parents of a beaten teen want answers from Montana's Spring Creek Lodge Academy.
Missoula Independent |
John S. Adams |
06-22-2006 |
Children & Families
Tags: children & families
The Case of the Two Abigailsnew
One infant dies with her head in a noose, another dies inside a toy chest -- each was in a father's care, and homicide cops want answers.
Phoenix New Times |
Paul Rubin |
05-23-2006 |
Children & Families
Tags: children & families
Children of the Stormnew
The Children's Defense Fund aims to renew the Gulf Coast's children.
Jackson Free Press |
Natalie A. Collier |
05-18-2006 |
Children & Families
Tags: children & families
Big Love, Texas-Stylenew
Polygamists live in a compound on the dry western plains of Texas.
Houston Press |
Keith Plocek |
05-02-2006 |
Children & Families
Tags: children & families
Her Right to Be Obnoxiousnew
Dyandria Darel claims that the New York City Administration for Children's Services botched the abuse case against her ex-husband and eventually took her daughter away from her.
The Village Voice |
Kristen Lombardi |
04-12-2006 |
Children & Families
Tags: children & families
In the Mouth of Madnessnew
Between 400 and 700 kids are coming of age on Los Angeles' Skid Row.
L.A. Weekly |
Sam Slovick |
03-09-2006 |
Children & Families
Tags: children & families
Marry, Marry Quite Contrarynew
Bush has finally secured millions to promote marriage in "at-risk" communities.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Tali Woodward |
03-02-2006 |
Children & Families
Tags: children & families
Adopting New Rulesnew
A planned change to Michigan adoption law for unmarried parents may prove a boon for gay couples.
Metro Times |
Ben Lefebvre |
01-25-2006 |
Children & Families
Tags: children & families
A Good Man Is Hard to Findnew
Mentoring programs complain about the lack of adult males, so one took a chance on ex-con Marc Plaskie.
Westword |
Jared Jacang Maher |
01-17-2006 |
Children & Families
Tags: children & families
Kids, Money and Foreign Policynew
Laura Briggs, an international adoption expert, says the commercialization of adoption has helped kids who need homes -- and has hurt some who already had homes.
Tucson Weekly |
Saxon Burns |
11-17-2005 |
Children & Families
Tags: children & families
Pass/Fail: Student Drug Testing for Jackson Public Schools?new
Jackson, Mississippi's new mayor, Frank Melton, wants every public school student drug tested. Such a plan is unconstitutional and would be expensive, too.
Jackson Free Press |
Brian Johnson |
10-13-2005 |
Children & Families
Tags: children & families
Driving While Young: Why a City's Curfew Isn't All Thatnew
When she got up the morning of July 10, 2003, Leslie Berryhill did not know she was going to face the "scariest thing" of her short life. But the Jackson, Miss., youth curfew had landed the 17-year-old in jail -- and no one called to tell her frightened parents anything about it.
Jackson Free Press |
Brian Johnson |
10-13-2005 |
Children & Families
Tags: children & families
