Parents, teachers and pediatricians all understand the vital importance of in-person learning not only for our children’s academic development but for their social and emotional development as well. Many children receive resources from schools that they simply cannot receive at home. Others rely on school Read More …
As the country cautiously reopens and people try to navigate the new normal brought about by the pandemic, parents wonder how to best keep their families and children safe. The last thing parents need to worry about is an outbreak of yet another serious and potentially deadly disease that can target their children. However, that is Read More …
The 2020 Census forms will start arriving in mailboxes around the country this March, launching the once-a-decade effort to count every person living in the United States. Children are consistently the most undercounted demographic in the census. In fact, in the 2010 census an estimated Read More …
As we approach the season of giving, of families gathering and of holiday lights, we should take a moment to reflect upon the plight of the immigrants. We should think of those desperate people whose families have been separated and from whom the light of Read More …
In June of 2018, thousands of Americans raised their voices to demand an end to the administration’s family separation policy. Members from both sides of the aisle and people from across the country condemned the policy as morally repugnant. Under the pressure of that public Read More …
I have been disturbed by many stories and images over the past several years of migrant children being traumatized at our southern border. One story in particular about a boy named Carlos has haunted me since I first learned of it . Perhaps it is Read More …
There has recently been criticism of the comparison between detention facilities holding immigrant children and concentration camps. I not only agree with the Holocaust analogy but feel it is vitally important to make such analogies as we confront the human rights violations being committed by Read More …
It has been one year since thousands of us around the country raised our voices and rallied against family separation. It was through our public outcry and a court order that nearly 3,000 children were reunited with their parents. It has been one year and Read More …
Dear NYS Legislators, I am a pediatrician who has been advocating for a bill in the NYS legislature that would allow only medical exemptions to vaccination. I have heard from staffers of various Assembly offices that legislators are not hearing from the parents of children Read More …
Over the past several weeks, we have been confronted almost daily with stories and images from the border that haunt us, and we must ask ourselves: WHERE IS OUR HUMANITY? Where is our humanity when hundreds of suffering migrant families and children are being fenced Read More …
The news cycle is dizzying, exhausting and at times overwhelming. And it is powerful. It has the power to distort time, making days feel like weeks, weeks like months and months like years. It has the power to shape what we know and what we Read More …
I am a pediatrician and I work, reside and am a parent in Suffolk County. On behalf of my patients and my children, I urge the Suffolk County Legislature to pass the proposed bill that will ban the sale of most flavored e-cigs and flavored Read More …
Last week the NRA quite arrogantly called doctors ‘self-important’ and advised them to “stay in their lane” with respect to gun violence . They were responding to a recent policy paper by the American College of Physicians that called firearm violence a public health crisis Read More …
