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New York civil rights violation lawyer David Perecman of The Perecman Firm rails against hate crime. Most recently, a woman pushed a man in front of an oncoming elevated train motivated by hatred for what she perceived to be his religious beliefs. New York, New York (PRWEB) January 03, 2013 In an extreme case of hate crime, a woman was arrested and charged with second-degree murder as a hate crime. Her alleged victim was a man she thought was either Hindu or Muslim. He died after being...

CHANDLER, Ariz., Jan. 1, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- A Huffington Post write-up shed light on an apparent shift in attitudes towards domestic violence. Awareness of this issue is clearly on the rise. An advocate for domestic violence victims, Christian Weems, took note of the information. The article shared statistics compiled by San Francisco polling firm Tulchin Research. Respondents were randomly selected from a pool of 900 English or Spanish speaking adults with access to either a...

National identity theft company partners with uKnow.com to help parents protect their kids from digital dangers. Arlington, VA (PRWEB) December 27, 2012 uKnow.com, Inc. the leading provider of Parental Intelligence Systems announced today it is partnering with IDentity Theft 911 to power SocialScout, an intelligence tool for parents. SocialScout enables parents to monitor and analyze their child’s social networking and mobile phone activity while protecting their privacy and reputation...

Lawrence LeBlond for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online There are several keys to happiness and acceptance. For children, kindness is an important key. Researchers from the University of British Columbia and the University of California, Riverside (UCR) have found that nine- to twelve-year-olds who perform kind acts for others are not only happier, but tend to be more accepted by their peers. Their study, published in Wednesday’s issue of PLoS ONE, suggests that increasing peer...

Lawrence LeBlond for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Domestic violence (DV) can be emotionally scarring no matter who is involved, but some may be more prone to it than others, according to a new study. Those with mental health disorders are more likely to have experienced domestic violence than the general population, say researchers from King’s College London’s Institute of Psychiatry and University of Bristol. Their study follows previous research showing a link between DV...

Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online According to a recent Mount Sinai study published in the journal Pediatrics, nearly a third of children diagnosed with food allergies are bullied. While a third of the children were being bullied, nearly half of the parents surveyed were unaware of the bullying, despite both the children and parents reporting they experience higher stress levels and lower quality of life. The study, led by Eyal Shemesh, MD, Associate Professor of...

Encouraging a national debate and helping people understand the roots and prevention of young adult violence, Dr. Kathy Seifert is appearing on Fox News DC TV Morning News, La Opinion, Huffington Post, Psychology Today online, WBOC-TV, and a variety of talk radio shows. Salisbury, MD (PRWEB) December 18, 2012 The expertise of Dr. Kathy Seifert on coping with trauma and preventing future acts of young adult violence will be appearing in multiple local and national media over the next week,...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Do the names Bill Clinton, Bob Livingston, James McGreevey, Arnold Schwarzenegger, John Edwards, Christopher Lee, and Anthony Weiner, to name a few, ring a bell? If so,that is because at one point in time they were involved in a sexual, political scandal and Americans wanted to know every gritty detail involved. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20121218/CG31887) But what about the women that were involved in these so called...

Bullying among children may be a threat to their future mental health A recent study by a researcher at the Centre for Studies on Human Stress (CSHS) at the Hôpital Louis-H. Lafontaine and professor at the Université de Montréal suggests that bullying by peers changes the structure surrounding a gene involved in regulating mood, making victims more vulnerable to mental health problems as they age. The study published in the journal Psychological Medicine seeks to better understand...

With the release of the ‘perversion files’ the Boy Scouts of America has revealed just how long it’s known about scout leaders preying on young boys in their ranks. One of those alleged victims, now an adult man living in the Philadelphia area, has filed a lawsuit in Pennsylvania Eastern District Court (#5:2012cv05823) against the Boy Scouts and former scoutmaster claiming they did little to protect him as a boy from a known predator mentioned in the organization’s secret internal...