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2008

Why the hell not? Hard core young criminals need to do hard time
Youth have the power to make changes
California: Dependency court reforms will be worth the cost
Malta: Study highlights need for Fostering Act
The case for juvenile courts
Ireland: Time for solutions, not excuses
Parents to be shown footage of unruly kids
UK: Lib Dems unveil youth crime plan
State must move past warehouse prisons for young people
Kids need limits but so do Canada's judges
Canada: Fight the roots of crime
Solving crime? Tackle the root causes first
Scotland Home Affairs: Tackling antisocial behaviour?
Parental obligation: Congress must step up to help foster youth
'Leave him for dead,' killers shouted as they fled stabbing
The state is a problem parent
Children learn values at young age
Juvenile justice
A leap in mental care for children
UK:More than tough talk needed to tackle the toll of knife crime
Instilling a purpose in children ... critical but not easy
A new deal for British children
Our challenge: finding a decent tomorrow for today's young
Under 14s 'should not be locked up'
Only bullies benefit from legislation: victim
Juvenile sex offenders marked for life
The British vice: We just can't talk about sex
Girl violence is on the rise, but why?
Of 'bad apples' and bad barrels
Shouting out for teenagers
Zero tolerance: The school woodshed
A shocking look at growing up in today's UK
Project Milwaukee: Are kids' mental health needs being met?
Professor: Changes to age-of-consent law under-promoted
Justice by the numbers
UK: Call to cut school summer holidays to just two weeks
UK: Prison won't halt this epidemic of stabbing
Childhood of trauma is how Jay got that way
Restorative justice instead of punishment
Get tough on crime but not on youth
Kids in trouble
Local foster kids dispelling myths
Labrador: Violence among our youth is out of hand
A fine line between aerosol art and graffiti
New Zealand: Successes forgotten in coverage
What worked for me
Parents 'abdicating responsibility for their children'
Youth violence: the blame game
Authority of justice reaffirmed
Rocky road to adulthood for kids in care
Texas Youth Commission and costs of shortchanging children
UK: Authorities 'fail' care teenagers
Youth judge wants core values taught in schools
Smack ban on foster carers 'is PC gone mad'
Dehooding the hoodies
The 'revolving doors' of justice
Family life is in 'meltdown'
Time to rebuild lives
Stop dumping kids in hotels
Give our youth a break
Canada: Sex education: Facts not morals
Canada: Rights of mentally ill youth
Duty of care and secure units
Cure for L.A. gang plague
UK: Reconviction or rehabilitation?
Positive step for chronic offenders
Australia: Looking back at social changes
Society sending boys down the wrong path
Adults, not youth, a public menace
Tell teenagers the facts of death
Canada: Law to blame for youth crime boom
Make suspension from school more productive
Florida: Blueprint Commission's report
Residents sound off on teen curfew
US courts: Little voice for kids
ASBOs 'may criminalise children'
Children of criminals
Criminalising acts of kindness
The age of the knife
Recidivism in New York State system
Society cries out for father figures
UK magistrate: Our hands are tied
California gang plan
We need to talk about violence
US among harshest for sentencing kids
Stop spoiling your kids!
Is tough love an oxymoron?
Facebook vs. court bans
Sex ed in the real world
Anonymity for youth suspects?
Feelings of desertion

2007

UK children 'reading too early'
Life without parole unconstitutional
Overcrowding crisis in UK jails
Why we need to listen to voice of youth
Australia: Children let down by rules
Children's health and safety
No easy answer on bullying
Fostercare scandal: Number of kids removed
Should parents be told if their underage child is having sex?
Online social networking breeds narcissism
The right model for juvenile justice
Coping with bullies is part of growing up
Bullies who leave no bruises
Children as judges?
Poverty still a blight on society
Tory crime crackdown misguided
Working with children and the law
Parents feeling the pressure of blame culture
Testing protects vulnerable children
Welfare of children
Blueprint Commission on juvenile justice hopes to reform troubled system
Bringing in restorative justice
Let the children play
Out of the foster-care lifeboat
America behind bars
Government to roll out "non-sniffable" fuel
Helping girls in detention
Leave the kids alone
Shame the parents who fail
Start rehabilitating
Who would have children?
Persecuting and prosecuting children
Death and despair no stranger to Pauingassi's bullies
I've never felt less like hugging a hoodie
Dead End Kids in search of role models
Nurture a child's self-esteem
ustice is too often lacking for young black defendants
A psychoanalyst for his age (but not ours)
Guilt by association
Better homes: Foster children need family members
To undo gang influence, educate, don't incarcerate
Shortterm gimmicks are not the answer
Prioritise keeping our children whole
Child criminals can' think like adults
Major flaw
Government advice: Make sure your child plays conkers
Marriage sure ain't child's play
Union concerned about knives in youth prisons
Me and my Asbo
Whipping sounds good but would it deter crime?
Supreme court judge speaks on family crisis
Juvenile corrections could be next venue for restorative justice in Texas
Over-protected childhood
Money for nothing
"No-one beyond help' - Barnado's
Painful rejection
'Bubble-wrapped' kids denied vital development
Criminalizing the Classroom
Children of the market
Troubled youths deserve attention
No such thing as a problem-free child
 With our children's future we are reaping what we sow
Inflating grades a way to spoil children
Youth custody: Is a rethink of youth Justice required?
Children lost in court squeeze
Calls for inquiry following teenager suicide verdict
Treating juveniles as juveniles
Helping teenagers deal with their sexual identity
Angry parents teach children from a young age to discount foes as people
New Approaches Needed To Help Children In Care
Don't punish kids like adults for crime
Children should not be jailed, says report
Youth crime: Call this justice?
Law lets children die nameless
The blood of our children cries out for an end to youth violence
Getting into the head of youth
Blair’s ruinous legacy of beta children
 ADHD is born in classrooms
Children's Aid Society of Algoma leads the way in Ontario
State's foster children deserve permanent families
Forget home and school. Look on the streets
Adult approach
Inconvenient youth
Criminal Background Check Requirement in UK Criticized
Jailing children 'a giant leap in wrong direction'
Bettelheim and the Importance of Play
A Florida injustice
Reform life sentences for youth
Needs of foster youth are not met
Plans to monitor children from birth
Guards suffer at Texas Youth Commission
A criminal idea
Children need many champions
More youths in adult jails
Being a youth in Britain isn't so easy these days
No such thing as naughty anymore?
Gains observed at youth prison
Teaching kids lessons in happiness
Youth jail population 'to reach all-time high'
Giving children the right start
Troubled kids ‘criminalized’: Report
Youth movement: Move on, kids
Oh boy! You are violent
Giving young people adequate resources
Youth facility ‘recipe for tragedy’
Growing debate: Where should troubled kids live?
Tories call for family support
Hundreds of kids in sex trade
Children need grown-up adults
Keep siblings together in foster care
Judge lets foster kids go to hearings
Changing young lives
Heavy crackdown on youth gangs counter-productive
Asbos should impose weekly sport on young offenders
Cut off in care
Justice Minister calls for youth violence crackdown
What Type of Parents Tends to 'Spare the Rod'
Juvenile programs official questions action before teen's death
Are children set too much homework?
Gay adoptions: Suffer the children
Why is it so hard to help drug-addicted criminals?
Juvenile injustice
Not eager for return of juvenile offenders
Violent soap operas harm children
Stolen cars, stolen childhoods and stolen futures
Durban's Legacy of Poverty
Children exposed to too much violence in the media, parents, teachers warn
More support needed for foster youth
'Reefer madness' no reason to seize more children
The political addiction to tough talking on drugs has failed us all
Children belong at school
Alarms raised on youth crimes
Shocks from the system
Helping at-risk teens make hard changes
Rein in on rogue children's homes
Children’s Needs, not Rights, should be the Focus
Africa: A continent of orphans

2006

When Teachers Fail to Be Role Models
The exam-driven, results-focused system is failing too many children
Catch a thug – and make him even worse
Finding a Fix: Son's life saved by treatment - and love
Targeting the young is a soft option
We cannot close the book on historic cases of child abuse
Executive 'airbrushed' criticisms from report on youth crime courts
Irish ruling fuels debate on children's rights
History revision
Steering children away from violence
I am the product of a single-nanny household
The really tough way to control drugs is to license them
Smacking: Children's tsar moves for outright ban
No surprise in rising rate of youth crime
Temporary housing for abused children draws fire
Face it... obesity is a form of child abuse
Our most vulnerable kids have a right to be heard
 could go on about my chatty children
Listen to mother
Laws to keep children safe 'getting out of hand'
roblem families and problematic proposals
Youth Justice: Grown-up solutions needed
Perils of adulthood
How to talk, listen and bond with teens
Children taught parenting skills
We've forgotten to teach social skills, and our children are stagnating
Age of consent should not be raised: panel
Has family dinner become a thing of the past?
Divided we fall
Negative effects of corporal punishment on children
'We have a limited armoury'
Death Of A Teenager
It's a crime what's happening to volunteers
Who gains from pictures of suffering children?
Book argues child soldiers should be seen as both victim and perpetrator
Council urged to throw out plan for 'brat camp' in glen
South Africa: Adoption - a new kind of slavery, or hope for the desperate?
Let kids be kids
Independent or Indigent: What's next after Foster Care?
Line of duty in social work
Police View: Child’s first three years are key to cutting violent crime
Child protection ethos 'sometimes forgotten'
We can't let children in care fall victim to privatisation
Youths could come home
Treating children with mental illness
Child justice delayed is child justice denied
Don't overprotect; teach children to do the right thing
It's time to kick our addiction to nostalgia
Children facing 'discrimination'
Solutions do not lie in a return to juvenile courts
Disciplining children not just for mum and dad
Call to raise criminal age
Is adult prison best for juveniles?
Named, shamed, detained and forgotton
Architect of child protection laws says we've gone too far
Don't prosecute children under 14, says top adviser
As if children mattered
Parents should teach their children how to drink alcohol, according to a new report
'Children are being poisoned by modern life'
The best way to find out what children think is to ask them
Y txtng cn b v gd 4 improving linguistic ability of children
Children’s Top Messages to Government
The modern myth of childhood innocence
Fear is shaping our children
Britain would benefit from tough love
Problem children target defended
Cracks in foster care
Seeking treatment
Detention doesn't work
Adolescent focus on inner self
Money idea for children in care
Expand services for troubled youth
Hanging around a social problem?
Youth speak out against crime bill
Responsibility to nurture children
War on youth crime demonising teens
Politics in the way of crime prevention
Rehabilitation, not revenge
Alternative school punishment
Arrests for marijuana use
Witnessing violence
Punishment not the right answer
What about the dads?
Young and reckless
Lives of crime
Family homes for young criminals
Bush tucker kids
New laws for child offenders needed
Children in trouble for hopscotch
Light, laughter and care
Paying for crime is expensive
Do not forget the children
Beware of demonizing troubled youth
Depressed kids deserve better treatment
Kids views
Teenage pregnancy crisis
Criminal circles
Damaging publicity
War on needs is the problem
No jobs for at risk youth
Hug a hoodie
The state is a pretty rotten parent
Underage drinking
Cameron defends youth crime speech
How far do we go to watch children?
Abolishing poverty
SA Justice Conference
Restorative justice
Rights considered
Kids curfew questions
Taking aim at teen crime
Turbo-consumerism and crime
Concerns over new child database
Foster kids and court proceedings
Failing the vulnerable
The parenting predicament
Child mental health disorders soar
Raising age of consent sparks uproar
School reform and achievement gaps
Young children learn homophobia
Where'd all the role models go?
Children's lives cannot wait
The drugging of foster youth
Giving fathers a chance
Call for mental health reform
Youth prison recidivism
Why are children on the street
Problems juvenile law failed to anticipate
Turning children into killers
New shelter
Boot camp only solution for youth offending
Children are a disaster priority
Boomers' kids raise self-esteem to extremes
Budget falls short on protecting children
Teen spends six days in 'solitary'
Getting tough on crime does not work
Sexual pressure on children
Change paradigm to stop bullies
Naming and shaming: violation of privacy
Children in need
Children under 5 should sleep with parents
Juvenile detention centers
Invest in children's mental health
German women choosing to go childless
Housing juveniles with prisoners is criminal
Juvenile killers are not adults
Tough love: some discipline goes too far
Arizona approach to foster kids
Fishing tackles anti-social crime
Stoned at school
Juvenile courtrooms remain closed
Canada - murder trial
Crime prevention: diversion tactics
Juvenile justice funding
Children damned by crime hysteria
A call to action on foster children
Where have all the fun times gone
TeenScreen - stealing children's future
A child in need
Boredom could be good for children
Children must have a childhood
Kids on ADHD drugs
Charged for being a typical child
United way teen survey
The minor consent law needs your support
artin boot camp closure
10 things every child with autism wishes you knew
Anti social behaviour orders
Silence and youth suicide
Responsibility to children
Teen self harm UK
Don't prejudge teens in care
Agency seeks more gay parents
Voiceless youth
Childhood happiness
Foster care reform requires flexibility
Foster care's changing picture
Society fears about young criminals wrong
Bullying solutions lies with communities
How to reach troubled youths
Domestic violence warps children's brains
Youth officials aim to stop 'bouncing'
A child's right to privacy in the juvenile court
iewpoints through the ages
Are the kids all right?
Care for children
Forgotten children
Discipline abuse
Reform child welfare
Meth is an equal opportunity destroyer
Juvenile crime on rise in Israel
Center of attention bad place for child
More prisons do not address gang problem
Testing adult authority
Out of the foster-care lifeboat
A way home for foster youth
The Trouble With Tough Love
Curfew sends wrong idea to kids, parents
Is it time to stir the pot debate?
Tougher molestation law sought
Fostering instability
The myths about shared parenting
Talk sense about sex
Minority juveniles in centers
Teen sex crackdown
Living in fear, lost for words
Plan to bring youth offenders to Dobbs Ferry worries some
Multiculturalism still rings strong
Money better spent on existing welfare programmes
It's time to unplug our kids
Can we make our children uniform?
Treat children with respect and you'll get it straight back
Schools need help in teaching respect
True costs of the Respect agenda?
A gift worth giving to our kids
Hostel: We should be alarmed
Shake-up plea for youth mental health
Family courts
Women Also Abuse Children
Invest in youth to end violence
New Jersey services still lacking
Youth programs seek to cope
Northern Ireland's Commissioner
Center run too loosely

2005

Pregnant minors choose to terminate
Cafe Sign Stirs Debate on Children
Free love and education v free downloads and a fee-paying education
Why does a millionaire village want to ban its teen tribes?
Reading, writing and raising kids
'Flawed sentencing' responsible for teenager's suicide
Ignoring the plight of children
Budget cuts hit social welfare groups
Sense of failure: the scale of teenage self-harm
Using jail as runaway fix
Call to send children in care to boarding schools
UK: Parents are kept in the dark about the content of 'personal education'
Scotland: There's more to tackling anti-social behaviour than ASBOs
Our children our responsibility
The dangers of positive reinforcement in children
Children in jail
Foster kids: No refuge
Adult crime adult time for kids
Homeless teens
Restorative justice
Moral values must be identified
French lessons
Juvenile justice out of sight
Can curfew for juveniles cut crime?'
Teen Court
Act now to halt 'cannabis disaster'
Charities 'strangled' by red tape checks on volunteers
Problem is not the law - it's 'lack of services'
Safety of our children must come before a sex offender's civil rights
Toronto refuses to impose curfew
School uniforms may not be a perfect fit
Prisons chief (and new head of Barnardos) hits at 'gross' overcrowding
Expert urges: legalise cannabis to cut heroin addiction in Scotland
Rehabilitation 'right way to help street children'
Congress urged to help regulate boarding schools
How to better protect vulnerable children
Poetry bid to reduce suicide rate
Governor signs foster-care bills
ADHD no laughing matter for parents
Judge looks for ways to stem violence
Civil rights improvements recommended at prisons for youths
Scots urged to hit youth crime hard
Judge warns of violent young girls
Growing pains
Needs of Stressed Youth Important
Let your children run free
'Child care projects need funding'
Drugs 'should not be first treatment for depressed children'
Agency Rethinks Ways To Replace Training School
'No such thing' as terrible teens
Summer camps for children 'could stop racial segregation'
CYA Conference
Town needs insight into teen needs
Pity the poor children left to Blair’s care
All of us must have a hand in raising our youth
Let’s get our act together and put the smile back on our Sad Tiger
Belgium's battle against youth crime
The Crime of Criminalizing Children
Child labour a ‘necessary evil’ in poor states
Keeping an eye on the kids
Cooking up a surge in violence
Putting the work back in homework
Contraception debate
Put parents in care
Remembering George Lyward
Bullying not taken seriously
How social services can seize our children
Concept of foster homes
State prison for teen girls a failed experiment
Suspect: Age 12 bail: $250 000
We need more role models to champion apprentices
Children in dungeons
Emotional abuse in Ghanaian orphanages
Parents in need of lessons too
Youth system working
NGOs: Government policies are ineffective in combating juvenile delinquency
Tourett's children 'given asbos'
UK judges say new drink laws are lunacy
|Why Toronto will never impose a curfew on youth
Wrong to wield the big stick
Child protection system
One of the major mistakes we've made in American culture over the past century
Belgium's battle against youth crime
In overestimating young people's sexual activity, society endorses it
Youthful follies
Does child labour always undermine education
Checking child migration to the cities
Prison simply gives society a brief rest from offenders
Juvenile crime: Listen to the people
Let 7-year olds choose between their parents
Speed up ECD policy
What about the boy child?
Budget ax offers little hope to lift city's poor
Parents must be held to account
More men needed in caring careers
Sign of the times as children aged two recognise brand logos
A point of view
US: Gang bill takes cue from organied crime legislation
Cutting crime-Putting a sharper focus on gangs
Mistake to label young sex offenders as 'deviants'
lenty of advice for the president
Educate rather than incarcerate
Do kids do better with parent home?
Substance abuse tragedy
Foster children need preparation
The Entitlement Generation: Revolutionary or just spoiled?
UK: Call for single-sex schools
Future thugs can be seen at age 3, says judge
For the kids' sake: The way out of the troubled system
Child Welfare applauds new Children's bill
Juveniles in the adult justice system
Children do best with a mom and a dad
Councils 'fail' children in care
Helping their families to help them works better than institutionalisation
Local authorities urged to 'foster-board' children in care
The Asbo generation
'I lost my job because I was a man playing with children'
Detention reform
For better or worse
Asbo chief rounds on liberal critics
The reform of Victoria's youth detention centres is long overdue
What punishment fits crimes of young sex offenders?
Let children grow at own pace
The legal drinking age
Community service is no soft option
Asking parents to do their job
'Worst form of abuse has hit Zambia'
Has the fuss over hoodies gone too far?
Rattling the gates: A Peace Corps volunteer's chronicle of HIV and Aids death in Swaziland
Careful balance: Even those accused of child abuse have rights
Correcting an injustice
Bill's mandatory joint custody not best for child
For and against: child curfews
Tactics of discipline
No one word can define today's youth
Teenagers today, and a lot of adults as well, cant spell worth a nickel
Making it OK to take drugs wont make taking drugs OK
Chaos theory
Warning against demonising youth
A better life for foster youth
What is a Young Offender Institution?
Tug of war over sex education in schools
The welfare system that benefits no-one
What a teacher should be
Parents urged to 'get a grip'
Children in need
What's going wrong for boys?
Program continues to make a difference in people's lives
Kids controlled with drugs
Children suffer from lack of time in the natural world
Pivotal role of marriage an illusion
Children must learn to embrace risk, heads are told
The Age of Autism: A new approach
Children 'must no longer go to jail'
Youth centrer children need advocate
Quiet, class, or it's handcuffs
Editorial: Back on drugs
Testing students for drugs all wrong
Spare change pleas test city's patience
Puttnam blames violent films for increase in playground bullying
Next time you see a street child, think about where they came from
Covering teen suicide: One paper's decision
Hope and horror at Red Lake
Experts debate rehabilitation for teen killers
Social workers using outdated methods
Maryland Youth Justice
Child care systems are in a crisis, says Mwewa
Alcohol, in our school
Spare the Rod
Life on an assembly line awaits our kids
Keep talking to youth about sex and it's consequences
New Brunswick sex-ed courses on hold after complaints
Tragic challenge of child soldiers
Let's stop drugging kids
Correcting Corrections
Target: children
In praise of stay-at-home moms
Age of consent laws: Puritan notions of right and wrong
The perils of no-tolerance sex law
School violence
Open-hearing juvenile court
Children in Poverty: The world's richest nation should be embarrassed
Let's take a collective stance against child trafficking
The return of child labor
The growing class divide in new Zealand's education system
What the law says in regard to children in prison, remand

2004

Are we on the genetic slipperty slope?
Restorative Justice: Making Justice Work
At the sharp end of policing
Watching as the children starved
Children are ordinary citizens, too
Juvenile injustice ...
Police pressed in bad-behavior battle
Shock horror - children find school boring
State must serve foster teens
The UN Report on children
Social work breeds 'dependency culture'
Pressure applied by parents pushes teens astray
Truancy isn't a law enforcement issue
15 years on and affirmed rights of children are not observed
The parent gap: taking in the grandkids
Enforce the law
New Brunswick: Modern sex ed sparks controversy
Two paths to criminal justice
Delinquents need help, not licks
Asbos youth need more help - Kennedy
One day to just kick back
Family support
Parents slam school counselling scheme
Why we should say no to Anti-Social Behaviour Orders
Missing fathers, lost children
Is prison the answer to law and order policy
Letting parents know when police question kids
Leadership training solves teenagers' Identity crisis
Youth in crisis
Youth justice - rough justice
Great law not enough
Years of fags and shoplifting
Tackling the issue of teen suicide in Canada
Protect our children
Expert: Marijuana abuse 'impairing youths'
The children often go unheard
More case workers won't solve problems with system
Care of Childrens bill sells families short
What we need are a few good men
Contradictory laws negate childrens act
Children are our future - we can't give up on them
Children's rights are human rights
Appreciating boy and girl differences
More prisons not the only answer
Adolescence's neglected anniversary
Schools 'must do better' to help vulnerable children
The key is to focus on tomorrow
Screening and drugging children will not prevent social ills
The emergence of the first-person pronoun, the 'I'
A penny wise, a pound foolish on crime
Correct state corrections
Internet won't replace libraries
Early childhood development should be Canadian priority
We are failing our children
Parental overinvolvement can hurt children
Restore funding for Iowa youth shelters
What shall we do for war children
Bad behaviour not helped by confusing messages
Childen in care a special duty
Tackling the roots of youth crime
Asbos would not have kept me out of jail
Switching off party drugs
120 cases of child abuse every day? Pull the other one
Carrot and stick must work together to reduce crime
Fair warning on antidepressants
School-to-prison pipeline has to be disconnected
Adoption process letting down Welsh children
How does society fix an errant kid?
Spare the rod ... and save Zambian schoolchildren
Ignorance puts children at risk
Not just William
Committed to saving young lives
I may be wrong ...
Making young men count
Does getting tough work in the legal system?
Reforming youth corrections
Alternative sentencing programs for aboriginals in demand after new youth law
Juvenile injustice: System must re-visit automatic transfer of teens into adult prisons
Pornography, free speech and children
In the words of the child
Benefits of youth center outweigh risks
Issuing anti-social orders
Care for caregivers
Doctors discover spiritual side of healthy children
Breaking through addiction stereotypes
Youth prisons - a better plan
It's justice truly delayed
A conversation with Ken Dryden
Tying teenagers down
Busted for being out at night?
Why fear must not rule schools
It's time to expose the sex education zealots
Teach Evolution: leave no child behind
What's next for depressed kids?
Detention should be last resort for youth
Protection laws make children 'too hot to handle' says commissioner
Changing the way we punish
Find a better way than lockup for mentally ill youth
How not to get people into jobs
Home alone – and unhappy
We have to put young people first
Shortage of male primary teachers doesn't add up
Non-entities
All power to the commisssioner
Here's a generation wanting to be heard
A complex and costly problem
From chess to skiing, education continues outside the classroom
Schools should be free of bullying, harassment
Free schooling - good, but not enough
State plan for kids makes things worse
They'll abstain if they're given good reasons
Symptoms of a Deeper Malaise
Youth on trial
Fix problems before they're out of control
Just give them a pill
And they call this justice
A child's right to an identity
Psychologist plays down rising youth crime
Exits from the conveyor belt to crime
Youths stay close to nest later, longer
Truancy in D. C. schools
New CYA emphasis long-overdue change
Protecting children signs of support
Young and thwarted
Invisible children
Guilty of being young
Students in post-game fight should be tried as juveniles
Extract of a speech on National Day
Tagging sends out the wrong signals
Hodge 'broke promise' on children's commissioner
Supplementary Order Paper
Madison Meadow a grass-roots success story
Two paths to criminal justice
The human cost of zero tolerance
A generation of troubled youngsters 'criminalised'
Keeping children safe
Treat the children well
Children in Jamaica
Special residential schools progress
Should voters change "three strikes" law this fall?: Yes
Putting the sense into sentencing, then losing it in clice, jargon and verbiage
Reforming juvenile justice in NJ
Keeping young people on the straight and narrow
Corporal punishment 'worked in schools'
Fear holds back reform of California Youth Authority
'Theft of education' must be stoppped
State seizes kids at unusually high rate
Child beggars on our streets
How Britain lost its sense of purpose
Youth suicide in New Zealand
An adventure to last a lifetime
A dialogue on prison reform
Bullying victim speaks out as campaign backfires
Let's all help the youth 'aging out' of foster care
DCF says it's on the right track, but ciritics disagree
Surveys show the '70s are over and kids have changed
Promises to keep
A step backward for child welfare reform
It's time to support our young care leavers
Youth crime viewpoints
Mufti wrong on family planning
'I am ashamed of the drink-punch-smash-vomit culture'
It  is adults who have made teenagers' lives a misery
Cracking down on medical trials