CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — While physical neglect is understudied compared to physical, sexual or emotional abuse, neglect is just as damaging to children’s social development, a new study indicates. More than ...
Twenty-month-old Creighton Blaine Wells hadn't begun to talk yet, but he was an energetic and good-natured child. Soon he became something that gave his family much heartache: a statistic. Wells died ...
As adults, we think we’ve moved on from childhood, but many experiences in childhood and adolescence color our worlds decades later — for better or for worse. Food insecurity and food neglect fall in ...