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Primary documents
- The AFCARS Dashboard: Preliminary FFY2025 Estimates, No. 33
Government Record · 2026
Children's Bureau
The Children's Bureau's preliminary federal foster care count for fiscal 2025: 331,747 children in care on September 30, 2025, 175,008 entries, 169,927 exits and 501,745 children…
- The Association Between Adolescent Well-Being and Digital Technology Use
Peer-Reviewed Study · 2019
Amy Orben and Andrew K. Przybylski
Specification curve analysis across three large social datasets, total n=355,358, found a small negative association. The analysis is correlational rather than a causal detox experiment.
- The CDC’s Vaccine Recommendations for Children and Pregnant Women (Perspective) (2025)
Peer-Reviewed Study · 2025
Schwartz JL
A NEJM Perspective criticizing the May 2025 removal of COVID-19 vaccine recommendations for children and pregnant women as a bypass of the ordinary evidence-review and ACIP…
- The Childhood Immunization Schedule and Safety: Stakeholder Concerns, Scientific Evidence, and Future Studies (2013)
Document · 2013
Institute of Medicine, Committee on the Assessment of Studies of Health Outcomes Related to the Recommended Childhood Immunization Schedule
Responding to calls to study the schedule 'as a whole,' the IOM reviewed existing evidence (finding no basis for safety concern) and addressed study design directly:…
- The Common Sense Census: Media Use by Tweens and Teens, 2021
Document · 2022
Victoria Rideout, Alanna Peebles, Supreet Mann, and Michael B. Robb
Entertainment screen use averaged 5:33 for ages 8–12 and 8:39 for ages 13–18. Social-media time was 18 minutes and 1:27 respectively. YouTube, TikTok, and Twitch were…
- The Corrupt Business of Child Protective Services
Document · 2008
Nancy Schaefer
Former Georgia state senator Nancy Schaefer's report accusing child protective services of breaking up families for federal money, including adoption bonuses. This copy, hosted by an…
- The Cost of Interrupted Work: More Speed and Stress
Peer-Reviewed Study · 2008
Gloria Mark, Daniela Gudith, and Ulrich Klocke
The peer-reviewed experiment found interrupted tasks completed faster without quality loss, but with greater stress, frustration, time pressure, and effort.
- The Dangers of “Gender-Affirming Care” for Minors—FTC Workshop (2025)
Government Record · 2025
Federal Trade Commission
The FTC held its July 9, 2025 workshop with panels on science, whistleblowers, parents, and possible FTC action. A workshop and speaker allegations are not an…
- The Danish Childhood Vaccination Programme (2019)
Government Record · 2019
Statens Serum Institut (SSI)
Official Danish program table: DTaP-IPV/Hib + PCV at 3, 5 and 12 months; MMR at 15 months and 4 years; DTaP-IPV booster at 5 years; HPV…
- The Dengvaxia controversy in the Philippines: implications for vaccine confidence (2018)
Peer-Reviewed Study · 2018
Fatima K, Syed NI (peer-reviewed commentary, PMC)
Peer-reviewed account of the Dengvaxia fallout: roughly 800,000 children vaccinated, about 80,000 of them seronegative and at increased risk of severe dengue, with a measurable collapse…
- The Effects of Magnesium Supplementation on Subjective Anxiety and Stress—A Systematic Review (2017)
Peer-Reviewed Study · 2017
Boyle NB, Lawton C, Dye L
Eighteen studies examined subjective anxiety in mildly anxious, premenstrual, postpartum, or hypertensive samples, with mixed results and poor overall evidence quality. The review does not establish…
- The effects of social media abstinence on affective well-being and life satisfaction: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Peer-Reviewed Study · 2025
Nassen et al.
Ten studies, N=4,674 and 38 effect sizes, produced nonsignificant pooled results: positive affect g=0.03, negative affect g=−0.01, and life satisfaction g=0.03. Interventions were mostly short, adult-only,…
- The epidemiology of fatalities reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System 1990-1997 (2001)
Peer-Reviewed Study · 2001
Silvers LE, Ellenberg SS, Wise RP, Varricchio FE, Mootrey GT, Salive ME
Review of 1,266 fatalities reported to VAERS July 1990-June 1997; median age 0.4 years. Nearly half of reported deaths were attributed to SIDS. The decline in…
- The Highest-Paid YouTube Stars of 2020
News Report · 2020
Maddie Berg / Forbes
Forbes estimated Ryan Kaji (Ryan's World) earned $29.5 million in one year, making him YouTube's top earner for 2020. Forbes's own estimate.
- The Human Rights of Foster Children
Transcript · 2023
U.S. Senate hearing
The October 25, 2023 Senate hearing where former foster youth Mon'a Houston, 19, described 18 placements, overmedication, restraint, isolation and detention while in care from 2017…
- The Immediate Impact of Different Types of Television on Young Children’s Executive Function
Peer-Reviewed Study · 2011
Angeline S. Lillard; Jennifer Peterson
Peer-reviewed experiment (2011): 9 minutes of a fast-paced cartoon right away hurt 4-year-olds' attention and self-control compared with a slower show or drawing. Short-term effects only;…
- The Immediate Impacts of TV Programs on Preschoolers’ Executive Functions and Attention: A Systematic Review
Peer-Reviewed Study · 2024
Sara Arian Namazi; S. Sadeghi
2024 review of 15 studies covering 1,855 children aged 2 to 7. Fantasy content more clearly hurt self-control, while results on fast pacing were mixed.
- The Impact of Early Medical Treatment in Transgender Youth (R01HD082554)
Government Record
Johanna Olson-Kennedy (PI), Children's Hospital Los Angeles; NIH/NICHD
NIH-funded longitudinal study (approx. $8M+ across 2015-2025) of early medical treatment in transgender youth. Its puberty-blocker cohort's mental-health outcomes remained unpublished as of October 2024, drawing…
- The Mediterranean Diet and ADHD in Children and Adolescents (2017)
Peer-Reviewed Study · 2017
Ríos-Hernández A, Alda JA, Farran-Codina A, Ferreira-García E, Izquierdo-Pulido M
In an age- and sex-matched case-control study of 60 newly diagnosed ADHD cases and 60 controls, lower Mediterranean-diet adherence was associated with ADHD diagnosis. The adjusted…
- The Multimodal Treatment Study of ADHD (MTA): Variable Outcomes in Adulthood (2017)
Peer-Reviewed Study · 2017
James M. Swanson et al.
The MTA began as a 14-month randomized trial of 579 children; its observational adulthood follow-up included 515 ADHD cases and 258 comparison participants. Consistent and inconsistent…
- The National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP) and Vaccine Manufacturer Liability (handout)
Government Record
North Dakota State University (citing HRSA Monthly Statistics Report, vicp-data-09-01-25)
Secondary citation of HRSA's official monthly statistics: about 48% of adjudicated petitions (12,339 of 25,593) were compensated — not the book's '1 in 5.' Also documents…
- The Power of Play: A Pediatric Role in Enhancing Development in Young Children
Document · 2018
Michael Yogman et al.; American Academy of Pediatrics
The report says randomized trials of physical play in 7- to 9-year-olds showed enhanced attentional inhibition, cognitive flexibility, and brain functioning. It also supplies a 25%…
- The Power of the Like in Adolescence: Effects of Peer Influence on Neural and Behavioral Responses to Social Media
Peer-Reviewed Study · 2016
Lauren E. Sherman et al.
The simulated Instagram fMRI experiment found that many versus few Likes influenced adolescents’ behavior and neural responses to photographs.
- The Senior Advisory Group Panel on Commercially Available Information: Declassified Report
Government Record · 2022
ODNI Senior Advisory Group
The report documents intelligence-community acquisition of commercially available personal information, including detailed location-related data, without the process that compelled acquisition might require.