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Adrian Peterson’s Son Not the Only Child Abused by Mother’s Partner

Many who had never heard of Minnesota Vikings star Adrian Peterson before last week learned his name for a tragic reason: his two-year-old son died in a South Dakota hospital Friday after reportedly...

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The Many Faces of Poverty in America

Fast-food workers are striking, demanding $15 an hour. Pope Francis, TIME’s Person of the Year, lambasts “trickle-down” economic theories for perpetuating inequality. President Obama says inequality is...

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Money Doesn’t Fix All Family Problems

After Sara’s mom divorced her dad, she married a cop—a cop on the up and up. He was making so much money that when Sara was a child, they bought one of the biggest houses in Swan Creek, a gleaming new...

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Family Law Still Hasn’t Caught Up With Family Trends

With the explosion of children born outside marriage or experiencing parental divorce, unprecedented numbers of children born today will spend time living with one parent and that parent’s sexual...

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The Right and Campus Rape

It’s been a terrible semester at Mr. Jefferson’s University. Suicides. The apparent kidnapping, rape, and murder of Hannah Graham. And now this: allegations of not one but at least three gang rapes at...

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Kids of Single Parents More Likely to Witness Domestic Violence

Many studies have found that young people raised in single-parent families show more achievement and behavior problems than those who grow up with both their biological parents. Family sociologists...

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Women and Children Are Safer in Intact Marriages

Last June, the progressive blogosphere erupted in outrage over an article I published in the Washington Post on marriage and domestic violence. Much of the outrage was understandable, as the first...

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Even in Unsafe Neighborhoods, Kids Are Safer in Married Families

Young people are less likely to be victims of crime if they live in two-parent than in single-parent households. That has been a consistent finding of the National Crime Victimization Survey conducted...

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The Good News and Bad News About Children’s Health

When you spend a lot of time reading and writing about American families, it’s easy to focus on the bad news: high rates of family instability, widespread financial difficulties in the wake of the...

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Safety and Successful Marriages

When you think of safety, what comes to mind? OSHA standards for workplace practices? Guidelines for preventing accidents at home? How about factors that contribute to or characterize success in...

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Could Fathers Be Key to Preventing Bullying?

It’s increasingly well recognized that children’s first years of life exert a profound, lasting influence on their healthy development and later academic achievement. Indeed, according to a study...

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The Cycle of Violence in the Family

“Hate begets hate; violence begets violence; toughness begets a greater toughness,” Martin Luther King wrote in 1958. He meant to explain his nonviolent tactics in the fight for civil rights, of...

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Alleged Gang Rape Says More About Family Than Law Enforcement

There is no case that has shocked New York City more in the past year than that of five teenagers who were accused of attacking and sexually assaulting an 18-year-old woman at a park in the Brownsville...

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The Crime of Nations: The Underappreciated Role of Family Factors

Why do some countries have so much crime? Here in the U.S., we often worry about the fact that our murder rate is so much higher than those of other developed countries. Even more disturbing are crime...

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Eight Reasons Women Stay in Abusive Relationships

When NFL linebacker Ray Rice knocked his fiancée Janay Palmer unconscious in an elevator in 2014, it didn’t initially get much attention. He was accused of domestic violence and suspended for two...

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Four Factors That Help Women Leave Abusive Relationships

Being mistreated by the person you love—especially when physical abuse is involved—is one of the most frightening and traumatic experiences a woman can face, and it is hard to know what to do when it...

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The Silence of Sexual Assault

When Natasha Stoynoff, a writer for People, published a story about a 2005 encounter with Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago hotel, many people (even those who suspect that the Republican candidate for...

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Counting the Cost of Youth Imprisonment

When Dante was 16 years old, he was charged with armed robbery. One evening, as part of a gang initiation, he approached a man waiting alone for a bus in Washington, D.C., and threatened him: “Give it...

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Aggression in Twentysomethings’ Cohabiting, Dating, and Marriage Relationships

A number of studies have shown that cohabiting couples are more likely to experience physical aggression in their relationships than married couples.1 Here, we look at two studies that shed light on...

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