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Adoption often leaves older children behind, alone, but waiting families change the future
Babies are sought after by adoptive parents, but by the time a child is 8, the pool of hopeful parents has thinned. When a child reaches the teen years, that pool of parents shrinks, and many older children in need of homes will never find one.
Accidental hero: Human kindness in the midst of Holocaust horror
Yom HaShoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day, is a time to remember Holocaust victims as well as heroes who dared to make a difference during a dark and painful time.
What about me? Growing up with a seriously sick sibling
Serious illness seldom settles only on one child. It wraps its arms around and changes brothers and sisters, too.
Teaching girls to speak up early could help them change the world
Raising confident girls who speak up improves policies, decision-making tomorrow. But mixed messages and lack of confidence are barriers that parents need to help daughters overcome.
One tablet per child: creating opportunity in Africa
Researchers at One Laptop Per Child, a nonprofit based in Cambridge, Mass., suggest that children in the developing world have intuition and appetite to learn technology, and that using technological gadgets could help educate them.
Growing pains: Rate of young men struggling in careers alarmingly higher than for young women
More young adults are delaying marriage and staying in their parents’ homes. But the national numbers mask an important gender difference.
Writing history: Muslim women reshape their destiny with newfound freedom
It was a vision never before seen in Egypt: hundreds of women waiting to cast a vote in the country’s first free presidential election.
