The woman in this picture is 47 year-old Lori Drew who was today indicted on criminal charges related to the internet harassment and tormenting of a 13 year-old child, Megan Meier, who took her own life after being told by a person she believed was a 16 year-old boy with whom she'd become infatuated, that she had a "shitty life," and "the world would be better off without her."
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The U.S. Supreme Court today denied certiorari of a South Carolina Supreme Court decision involving a 12-year-old who was sentenced to 30 years in prison for murdering his grandparents.
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This is the season when parents around the country are trying to help their teenagers through the stress of the last set of exams of their high school years. But a new study has revealed that today's school children start worrying much earlier, many as young as seven and eight.
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Surprising results of a series of studies show that children with cancer are a flourishing population and most are no more depressed or anxious than peers
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According to a study published in the January 1st issue of the journal SLEEP, sleep-disturbed children are more severely depressed and have more depressive symptoms and comorbid anxiety disorders compared with children without sleep disturbance.
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