PRINTABLE PAGE Battery Behind the Shoji Screen After new legislation, Japan finally faces up to the prevalence and horror of domestic abuse. By Mark Magnier, Times Staff WriterOriginally published in The Los Angeles Times, January 29, 2002 TOKYO — Kimiko…
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PRINTABLE PAGE SJC Gives Grandparents Legal Tie to Unrelated Parents By Kathleen Burge, Globe CorrespondentOriginally published in The Boston Globe, June 16, 2001 Once again paying homage to evolving notions of family, the state’s highest court has ruled that a…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Children of Alcoholics: Caged, Silenced Songbirds By Rama Pemmaraju Rao, MDChildren’s Hospital, University of Alabama Medical SchoolOriginally published by Healthology Press, June, 2001 Imagine a house in which a child feels that the walls and floors are constantly…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Animal Abuse Just The Start, USU Professor Says Hurting pets likely link to later hostility and violence By Bryce Petersen Jr, Standard-Examiner Cache BureauOriginally published in the Standard-Examiner, November 8, 2001 LOGAN — As Frank Ascione progressed in…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Children Trapped by Gaps in Treatment of Mental Illness By Carey GoldbergOriginally published in The New York Times, July 9, 2001 BOSTON, July 8 — The 16-year-old girl had needed help, no question. She was throwing chairs, she…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Cop’s Wife Dies in Station Shooting Originally published by SAPA (South African Press Association), January 28, 2002 DURBAN — A police sergeant has allegedly shot and killed his wife in the Durban central police station. She apparently had…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Jury Convicts Defrocked Priest By Denise Lavoie for The Associated PressOriginally published by The Associated Press, January 18, 2002 CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — A defrocked priest was convicted Friday of indecent assault and battery for improperly touching a 10-year-old…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Kaunda Takes HIV Test, Urges Zambians to Do Same By Shapi ShacindaOriginally published by Reuters Health, March 26, 2002 LUSAKA — Former Zambian leader and revered African statesman Kenneth Kaunda took a public HIV test on Tuesday and…
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Munchausen by Proxy Syndrome By Myrna R. Nieves, MD FAAP Originally published by The Pediatric Bulletin Munchausen by proxy syndrome (MBPS) is one of the most harmful forms of child abuse. It is also perplexing. MBPS involves an apparent deeply…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Giant Snake Ate Baby Dinosaurs By Charles Q. Choi, LiveScience Contributor Published March 01, 2010, by LiveScience The last thing hatchling dinosaurs might have seen were giant snakes, researchers say. Scientists found the nearly complete remains of an…