'We’re all stressed out': Parenting in a pandemic puts additional stress on families, children
Each night, Paula Madrid's 7-year-old daughter, Chloé, refuses to go to bed quietly -- a new rebellion hatched since the family sequestered themselves in their New York City apartment to avoid the coronavirus.
"Everyday, there's something going on that wasn't happening before," said Madrid, a clinical and forensic psychologist.
In normal times, Madrid would discipline Chloé and enforce the bedtime rule. But times are far from normal.
Undocumented children need charitable help: Column
Children need high-quality health care regardless of citizenship. The justified outrage over detained minors in California, Oklahoma and Texas has focused the nation's attention on what is only the tip of the iceberg. While the number of apprehended, unaccompanied Central American children could reach 90,000 this year, an estimated 1 million undocumented children already live among us.