Jim Spencer

When he walked off the jet at the international terminal at O`Hare airport in January, Roland Scherer was ready to party. For months he had carried on a correspondence with...

Peer pressure, drug abuse, broken families and hopelessness can all lead teenagers to take their own lives. But while treating the social and emotional ills that prompt teenage suicide, the...

Family size and circumstances help predict whether grown children will live with their parents or strike out on their own, says Suzanne Bianchi, a demographer with the U.S. Census Bureau....

Insurance companies usually cast a jaundiced eye on what they consider ''cosmetic'' dentistry. Now, as a measure of how important a set of straight, interlocking teeth is to mental as...

At least 2 million schoolchildren are spanked by teachers and administrators each year, according to statistics gathered in a Children magazine special report, ''Corporal Punishment in America`s Schools.'' Only nine...

Four critical variables determine whether urban neighborhoods can successfully integrate, says Juliet Saltman, a Kent State University sociologist. The two most important elements appear to be a lack of public...

Much has been written about the brutal legacy of child abuse, passed from one generation to the next. As this theory goes, people who are abused as children will, in...

Conservatives are more likely to favor government aid to blacks than to whites, a new study about prejudice reveals. Researchers at Stanford University and the University of California-Berkeley asked 1,113...

There are or have been at least 30 American towns named Moscow, according to American Demographics magazine. Ohio and Kansas had four each. These aren`t enclaves of pinkos, explains geographer...