- Kids Count report: Nearly half of TN pregnant women don’t receive ‘adequate’ prenatal care, By Tony Gonzalez, June 7, 2013, The Tennessean: “Tennessee children who suffer from toxic stress, abuse, and other everyday challenges such as hunger — and who aren’t tended to early — face serious consequences throughout their lives. State health and child well-being experts delivered that message Friday morning while releasing the latest ‘KIDS COUNT: The State of the Child in Tennessee’ report. This year, the annual study examines challenges to raising kids in Tennessee, and whether state programs are doing enough to help them…”
- Report: TN children at risk for hunger, poverty, later problems, By Kristi L. Nelson, June 7, 2013, Knoxville News Sentinel: “Abuse and neglect during childhood can actually disrupt brain development, leading to lifelong problems, says a report released Friday by the Tennessee Commission on Children and Youth. That’s not new information, but the state agency, which advocates for improvement in the quality of life for Tennessee children, uses numbers and facts to back up a call for the Department of Children’s Services to continue its efforts — and work with other agencies — to form ‘a supportive infrastructure to help vulnerable children develop successfully…'”
Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty