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Byline: BROOKS HAYS DURHAM, N.C., April 8 (UPI) -- Law-abiding doesn't mean rational or even-keeled. According to a new study, nearly 1 in 10 U.S. adults have a history of [...]

BETHESDA, MD -- The following information was released by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA): A NIDA-funded study showed that while parents in the state of Washington are discussing [...]

Mar 12, 2015 (M2 PRESSWIRE via COMTEX) -- Schiphol (Amsterdam)/ the Netherlands - To mark World Consumer Rights Day on March 15, a survey from Teleplan, one of the top [...]

Older teenagers kept in police custody without access to an adult are isolated, exploited and traumatised, the High Court will be told tomorrow. Despite being categorised as a child in [...]

Byline: Nina Culver Feb. 22--The adult bookstore where a cross-dressing legislator first became ensnared in a career-ending extortion scandal in 2007 is being targeted by Spokane Valley City Hall. City [...]

Byline: KELLY SMITH; STAFF WRITER Shorewood city leaders are cracking down on adults who knowingly allow underage drinking in their homes, becoming the first South Lake Minnetonka city to approve [...]

Byline: Janel Davis Cobb County stepped up its efforts to curb underage drinking by passing an ordinance holding adults more accountable for their roles in the illegal act. Last week, [...]

Byline: Nicholas C. Stern July 22--MIDDLETOWN -- Before the town could throw its third annual Date Night event held Saturday, town officials needed to have the law changed. Main Street [...]

GRANGE HILL'S kids asked Britain to 'Just Say No' to drugs more than 25 years ago, but it seems their plea fell on deaf ears. One in three adults in [...]

Byline: KATIE HUMPHREY; STAFF WRITER Forget about house parties with underage drinking, even out in the rural areas. Dakota County now has a social host ordinance and the power to [...]

Announcement of competition: Norwegian courses for adults after introduction Act Rollag and Nore and Uvdal municipalities wishing to outsource the task of implementation of adult education for the following audience: [...]

Byline: Eugene Volokh Father-adult daughter incest is in the news again; apparently incest among adults is not a crime in New Jersey (though incestuous marriages are void), and a father-daughter [...]

WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by the Center on Budget & Policy Priorities: By Ed Bolen Roughly 1 million of the nation's poorest people will be cut off [...]

Oct. 05--It's easy to vilify child sex offenders. These criminals perpetrate acts that are unfathomable to most of us and inflict lifelong scars upon innocent victims. The crimes are so [...]

Byline: Daily Record Staff A statewide alert system for missing vulnerable adults will be created as part of legislation signed into law Monday by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo. The new [...]

Byline: Nedra Rhone 'Doom.' 'Mortal Kombat.' 'God of War.' 'Resident Evil.' The ominous-sounding video games, which rank among the most violent on the market, recently fought the law ... and [...]

Byline: Betsy Z. Russell March 15--BOISE -- Saying pornography has 'permeated our society,' the Idaho House voted 63-7 Monday to require the state's libraries to filter Internet access for adults. [...]

2016 SEP 7 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Elder Law Weekly -- New research on Health and Medicine is the subject of a report. According to [...]

2016 SEP 3 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Mental Health Law Weekly -- Data detailed on Mental Health have been presented. According to news reporting out [...]

2016 FEB 29 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Mental Health Weekly Digest -- Current study results on Neurology have been published. According to news reporting originating [...]

2016 FEB 15 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Mental Health Weekly Digest -- Investigators discuss new findings in Neurology. According to news originating from Mesa, Arizona, [...]

INSTEAD of debating whether to lower the minimum age of criminal responsibility (MACR) from 15 to 13 years old or not, the government should focus on going after parents and [...]

WASHINGTON, DC -- The following information was released by the U.S. Department of Labor: The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS) and Office of [...]

A new study estimates that more than 10 million adults gained health insurance by midyear as the coverage expansion under President Barack Obama's law took hold in much of the [...]

Videos submitted by students from Creekside High School in St. Johns, Lincoln High School in Tallahassee and SouthTech Academy in Boynton Beach were chosen by the Law Related Education Committee [...]

The Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act would make it easier for families to intervene and make decisions for mentally ill children over 18. The case for legislation to [...]

Florida's criminal justice system has received a lot of attention in recent years -- and for good reason. According to a new report, the state is on the wrong side [...]

Contract Awarded for Neural Markers of Individual Difference in Emotion Regulation in Depressed Adults Contract No.: K23MH097889-01A1 Contact Value: $154,918 Contract Signing Date: Jan 26, 2014 Contractor name : UNIVERSITY [...]

I know this blog is supposed to deal with family law issues, but 'family law' is really a broad term which can cover any number of issues besides simply divorce [...]

Byline: Gabrielle Banks Nov. 01--By the time Debbie Borodin's family members found her locked in a basement, where she'd been abandoned for more than three weeks with her sister's dead [...]

Sept. 09--No one with good sense would think it's OK to leave a child alone in a parked car while the adults hit the slot machines, yet at casinos in [...]

Byline: Tania Branigan in Beijing Adults, including family members, are banned from searching through children's computers or phones under a regional law passed in Chongqing, southwest China, state media reported [...]

Byline: CRISTINA SILVA TALLAHASSEE -- Adults who knowingly provide alcohol to minors could soon be in a lot more trouble. The Senate's Regulated Industries Committee unanimously passed two bills aimed [...]

Taxpaying adults don't get many breaks in our state, but if we climb in a car's back seat, we get one that could kill us -- whether we pay taxes [...]

New Jersey adults with autism would gain antidiscrimination rights and the ability to enroll in a statewide tracking registry under legislation approved in a Senate committee on Monday. Both bills [...]

Adults with autism would be specifically covered by anti-discrimination laws under one of two new measures designed to assist people who have the disorder, Assembly Speaker Joseph Roberts said Tuesday. [...]

Byline: COLLEEN JENKINS; Times Staff Writer TAMPA -- This week, as the U.S. Supreme Court heard appeals in two Florida juvenile cases, scholars took note that the state leads the [...]

A law that takes effect on Wednesday is a testament to the perseverance of two parents and an example of what is possible when the average citizen gets involved in [...]

The latest Minnesota city to consider holding adults responsible for teen drinking would impose the toughest 'social host' ordinance yet. The Minnetonka City Council is considering a law that would [...]

Byline: Kathie Durbin Apr. 21--A bill that would prevent those who exploit elderly or otherwise vulnerable persons from inheriting money or property from their victims has passed both the House [...]

Byline: GUEST VIEWPOINT By Jim Hale For The Register-Guard An April 4 Register-Guard editorial opposed House Bill 2974, which seeks to raise the minimum age for legally purchasing tobacco in […]

Monday, August 11, 2008, 10:09 PM Can he say that? We're talking Emory University here. I ask in admiration, since John Witte Jr., director of the Center for the Study [...]

2015 NOV 12 (VerticalNews) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Politics & Government Business -- Statement of Matthew L. Myers, President, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnvar/20080918/CFTFKLOGO A new [...]

CHICAGO, Sept. 9, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Among the outcomes of Massachusetts' 2006 health reform law, access to dental care for adults increased significantly, especially among poor adults, according to new [...]

WASHINGTON, DC -- The following information was released by the American Dental Association (ADA): The hard work to create the California Dental Association Foundation's CDA Cares clinics has culminated in [...]