Social Issues

A non profit pro-gun advocacy group is aiming to arm single mothers in one of the most crime-ridden areas of Texas, in effort to help moms protect themselves and further study the effects the program has on crime. According to an MSNBC report on Tuesday, the Armed Citizen Project, based in Oak Forest, Texas, seeks ... read more »

An unconscious 20-year-old Arizona State University student was abandoned at a Tempe hospital Saturday night after his fraternity brothers left him there with a post-it note attached to his body. Aidan Mohr was found sitting in a wheelchair in the emergency room at St. Luke’s Hospital with a sticky note that read, “I’ve been drinking and ... read more »

No, it’s not a story from The Onion. Wealthy parents, mostly moms, are boasting about the practice of hiring disabled “tour guides” so that their own children may receive VIP treatment at Disney World, reports the New York Post on Tuesday. The act of hiring a disabled “tour guide” for your Disney World vacation is gaining popularity among the ... read more »

A Sacramento, Calif., couple are decrying the actions of CPS (Child Protective Services) after the agency took custody of their 5-month-old infant son for what the couple claims was an effort on their part to provide him with another medical opinion. Alex and Ann Nikolayev, parents of 5-month-old Sammy Nikolayev told First Coast News that ... read more »

Authorities are waiting for an autopsy report which they believe will confirm that a Philadelphia couple allowed their infant to die last week when they denied the infant medical treatment in lieu of prayer and faith healing. If autopsy reports prove that the infant, who was suffering from a bad bout of diarrhea and respiratory problems, could have been saved if ... read more »

Colorado school officials have put the kibosh on a first grade student, Coy Mathis, who is anatomically male but identifies herself as a female, on using the girls’ bathroom. A Fountain-Fort Carson School District attorney, W. Kelly Dude explained via CNN: [The district] took into account not only Coy but other students in the building, ... read more »

An American University professor has sparked a debate that has grown beyond the perimeter of the Washington D.C. campus after she brought her sick baby with her on the first day of class and breastfed in front of her students. According to assistant anthropology professor, Adrienne Pine, her daughter woke up with a fever the ... read more »

Bedford-Stuyvesant Prep School in Brooklyn, NY is taking the birth control debate into its own hands (so to speak) by giving out condoms to students attending this year’s prom. There will be a safe-sex assembly held before the prom to educate the kids as well, and 500 condoms will be available afterwards. Principal Darryl Rascoe said, “There ... read more »

In a move towards projecting healthier body images Vogue has pledged that they will now only use healthy models that are 16 and older. In 2010 the Paris edition of Vogue featured a photo spread of a 10-year-old girl which set off an international furor. “Vogue believes that good health is beautiful,” said Jonathan Newhouse, ... read more »

Julia Bluhm, an eighth-grader from Waterville, Maine, is tired of seeing airbrushed, photoshopped girls in her favorite magazine. So, she decided to challenge Seventeen. Trying to make an impact, she created a petition on Change.org entitled “Seventeen Magazine: Give Girls Images of Real Girls!”  She feels that all girls have the right to feel appreciated ... read more »

Indian woman Laxmi Sargara was just one year old when her family had her married to a 3-year-old boy named Rakesh.  The woman, now 18-years-old, had her marriage legally annulled in what has been considered a ground-breaking case challenging the culture of child weddings, Agence France Presse reported Wednesday. According to AFP, the families of ... read more »

Tennessee legislators have passed changes to a law that would make the death of an embryo a punishable crime. The bill revises a law passed in 1989 that made the death of a “viable fetus” during the course of an assault or homicide an additional criminal offense. The latest revision adds to changes last year ... read more »

Prescription drug abuse is on the rise in America and rural residents are twice as likely to overdose on prescription pills than People in the cities. Prescription drugs are now responsible for more deaths than Heroin and Cocaine combined. In many places prescription drugs has overtaken meth as the most abused drug. The hot new ... read more »

“Cash mobs” are the latest version of flash mobs; a large group of people getting together to perform an apparently spontaneous action. Unlike most flash mobs, a “cash mob” helps the economy. Thanks to media such as Twitter and Facebook a group of online activists has been targeting locally-owned stores in cities around the world, ... read more »

Sorry to break it to all you newlyweds out there, but your marriage only has an even chance of making it to your twentieth anniversary. New statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention state that women only have a 52 percent chance of remaining in a first marriage for at least 20 years, ... read more »