Smartphones, tablets and video games are physically changing the brains of adolescents, early results from an ongoing $300 million study funded by the National Institute of Health have shown, according to a report by “60 Minutes.” Scientists will follow more than 11,000 nine- to 10-year-olds for a decade to see how childhood experiences impact the brain and affect emotional development and mental health. The first bits of data suggest that the onslaught of tech screens has been transformative for young people — and maybe not for the better. Read More
Growing up in Leisure City, Florida was anything but easy for Rene Martinez, also known as "Level." "I grew up without a dad," Martinez told CBN News. "My mom was in the streets. [She] was into the Santeria, which is like a form of witchcraft, sacrificing animals all over me as a kid and I started seeing demons. They haunted me my whole life." When Level turned 12, that darkness led him into a life of crime, which included breaking into homes, stealing guns and getting involved in drive-by shootings.” Read More
The Health and Human Services (HHS) mandate that requires insurers to cover abortion-inducing drugs and devices, sterilizations, and contraceptives without cost-sharing is still in effect under the Trump administration, which means many Americans who object to these procedures on moral or religious grounds are still compelled to subsidize them for others through their health insurance premiums and taxes. Read More
Experts in the field are urging caution for parents of transgender children and teens, citing studies that show minors often change their minds about transitioning when they’re adults. The phenomenon of kids and teens changing their minds about their transgender status once they grow older is called “desistance,” according to KQED, a public radio station in San Francisco. This happens — for example — when a child who is born male identifies as a girl during the child or teens years but then changes back to a male identity when an adult. Read More
Ending legal abortion in our lifetime is not just a fanciful dream. It could indeed become a reality–sooner than we think. But there is much work to do to realize the vision. Here is a roadmap for reversing Roe v. Wade, the tragic U.S. Supreme Court decision from 1973 which legalized abortion in all fifty states: Read More
This past October, a Dallas-area man was sentenced to life in federal prison for trafficking children for sex. The case offered a rare glimpse into a dark underworld most Americans don’t realize exists, right in their own backyards. Because of the hidden nature of this crime, many Americans don’t realize that sex trafficking is not just an international problem. Every day, hundreds of thousands of people are being sold for sex against their will right here in the U.S. Eighty percent of them are Americans, and most of them are children. Read More
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