Susan Donaldson James

For an entire year in the early 1980s, Mark Milano battled an array of perplexing and recurrent flu-like symptoms and illnesses: sore throats, vomiting, pneumonia.
“It was just one thing after another,” Milano recalled. “When they told me there was nothing wrong with me, I said, ‘But why am I sick all the time? I am only 26.’”
On one last visit to the emergency room in 1982, the head doctor asked the other residents to leave the room. He closed the door and said to Milano: “Can I ask your sex...

America has a problem with its young men.
Boys have more than double the rates of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder than girls, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Their suicide rates are also higher — between the ages of 15 and 19, boys die by suicide at triple that of girls, according to the CDC. By age 24, that rate climbs six times higher. These deaths usually involve guns. And a report from the U.S. Department of Education indicates that boys lag behind gi...

From the time he was a baby, Max, now seven, struggled with crippling anxiety.
"He would fly into screaming rages for no apparent reason," says his mother, Stacy, a 44-year-old lawyer from Seattle who wanted to keep her family's identity private. "He was constantly on edge."
At two years old, Max began three years of behavioral therapy, "but it did nothing to help him," Stacy says. His fear-driven outbursts continued into kindergarten. "Some days, he couldn't even walk into class. I'd have 45...

One Saturday every month, Maris arrives at a busy abortion clinic in northern Virginia to volunteer. As she walks towards the facility, protesters carrying rosaries and placards with images of fetuses and stern biblical messages are often waiting to confront vulnerable people as they are escorted inside.
“You have options! God loves you!” they shout, keeping the minimum distance they are permitted on the sidewalk outside.
Inside, people of all ages — from teens to mothers of several children ...

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