Families in the Loop

Fourteen large American retailers have refused to sign a new international safety pact, called the Bangladesh Factory Safety Accord to keep garment workers safe. After the building collapse in Bangladesh on April 24 that killed over 1,100 people, more than two dozen European companies signed an accord to improve the safety conditions of garment workers. [...]

How much does President Obama care about military families? Not enough, according to an article by Jeremy Hilton on Time.com. In 2010, military families sued the Department of Defense (DoD) and TRICARE (the military’s healthcare insurance program) “for their failure to provide medically-appropriate behavioral health treatment for military children impacted by autism.” A judge found [...]

Retract those claws, tiger moms. The results of a decade-long study about the hands-on Asian parenting style depicted in Amy Chua’s book Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother are out. Children of tiger parents “have worse grades, and they are more depressed and more alienated from their parents.” In the study, Su Yeong Kim of [...]

Got a chatty child? Then don’t move to the Denver area. An elementary school teacher in the Aurora school district has been put on paid leave for allegedly taping her students’ mouths shut. Children at Fulton Academy went home to their families on Thursday claiming that their second grade teacher had taped all of their [...]