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The Big Pinwheel Garden in Times Square represents “pinwheel gardens” being...

From the governor’s mansion in Tallahassee, FL, to the Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden in Richmond, VA, to a Prevention Awareness Day in Lansing, MI, pinwheels will be spinning in the breeze to stand for...

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We Found Our Son in the Subway

The story of how Danny and I were married last July in a Manhattan courtroom, with our son, Kevin, beside us, began 12 years earlier, in a dark, damp subway station. Danny called me that day, frantic....

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Michelle Obama: The Business Case for Healthier Food Options

For years, America’s childhood obesity crisis was viewed as an insurmountable problem, one that was too complicated and too entrenched to ever really solve. According to the conventional wisdom,...

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Another Chance for Mone’t

The end of the road is a yellow brick house in East New York, Brooklyn, that was once a rectory. Mone’t arrived there on Dec. 28 with a bad attitude and four years of baggage.In and out of the Queens …...

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Presidential Proclamation — National Foster Care Month, 2013

As a Nation, we have no task more important than ensuring our children grow up healthy and safe. It is a promise we owe to the hundreds of thousands of youth in foster care — boys and girls who too …...

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Opinionator: Kitchen Little

When you argue, as I frequently do, that cooking has the potential to help us deal with many of our dietary problems, you often elicit a kind of “I don’t care, I hate cooking” response in addition to...

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Filling Up an Empty Nest

RETIRING from work? Then it might be time to think about raising a family. Some brave older adults are turning the idea of retirement on its head by choosing to adopt children The post Filling Up an...

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Don’t Make Your Children the Exception to Every Rule

As with many findings in academic psychology, the connection between childhood conscientiousness and adult well-being simply proves common sense. The post Don’t Make Your Children the Exception to...

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How Googling Unmasks Child Abuse

DURING the Great Recession, child abuse and neglect appeared to decline. Incidents reported to local authorities dropped. The post How Googling Unmasks Child Abuse appeared first on The New York...

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Orphan Train: The Musical to Debut in NYC on October 11th

The story of thousands of orphans who left from The Foundling and other orphanages in the early 1900s debuts in Vanderbilt Hall at Grand Central on October 11th.  The post Orphan Train: The Musical to...

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