Am I up for the challenge again?
"While family and friends tell us not to give up on our dream of having two children, the reality is it may not happen in the time frame I hope." A mother contemplates whether she is up to the challenge of adopting and parenting an infant again.
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How positive energy can solve bullying
When Pirkko Tavaila learned her child was being bullied at school, she took all the necessary steps to help. But when moving her daughter to a different class and arranging meetings with the school counselor, teachers and principal didn't work, Tavaila found an alternative method: positivity.
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Parents need to teach kids financial literacy
In his book If I Had a Million Dollars: How to Achieve Financial Independence Before Your Parents Do, Tim Munkeby outlines ways to help young adults becoming fiscally responsible and financially independent.
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Where are our financial gurus?
Gen-Y is in desperate need of some relevant advice--the kind that takes into account monthly student loan payments and a college graduate's real income.
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Consider firearms liability insurance
People who drive cars and people who shoot guns equally cause 30,000 deaths annually, Kent Green writes. Every driver behind the wheel carries liability insurance, but no gun owner does. He argues for a roadmap that puts firearms liability on par with motor vehicles.
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My sister was a victim of one of them
America has more mass shootings than any other democratized country not at war, Joan Peterson writes. People who have suffered from gun violence feel the pain of this fact more than anyone. Peterson's sister was shot to death 20 years ago over a contentious divorce. That's why Peterson argues for universal background checks.
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I can't stop thinking about a gun control answer
Derick White argues universal background checks are something that should be done--and should have been done a while ago--but there are some fundamental questions people are not asking. How much governmental control are we as Americans willing to accept for the safety of our society? And how much would gun control laws impact or change the way people behave? Or would they simply create a whole new set of problems?
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The deep sting of loneliness
The Reporters Inc.'s Mark Saxenemeyer has started taking his admirer's phone calls again. Not all of nine or twelve them, but at least one a week. "When you're lonely, you just want someone to listen," Saxenmeyer writes. "When you're lonely, you simply need to be heard."
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Father shares daily anguish, frustration over son's disappearance
In the fall of 2006, Jesse Opie Ross travelled to Chicago, from his home in Belton, Missouri. He was a 19-year-old college student attending a Model UN conference with classmates from the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC). On the afternoon of November 21, his parents received a call from one of his sponsors saying Jesse was nowhere to be found. He had literally vanished. The Reporters Inc. offers exclusive excerpts from a new book by Jesse's father, Donald Ross: Where's Opie? Life Goes On.
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So much to discover, even in the alley
The Reporters Inc.'s Mark Saxenmeyer ponders the "journalistic mysteries" that remain untold, including the stories he sees as he looks into his back alley.
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