How Can I Tell if My Child Is Depressed? The symptoms of depression in children vary. The condition is often undiagnosed and untreated because symptoms are passed off as normal emotional and ...

The book Children of the Great Depression, which is aimed at younger readers, shows an excellent cross-section of photos from the FSA's work during the Great Depression.

Poverty can follow children into adulthood, affecting their long-term physical and mental health, and making it harder to finish school and climb out of poverty.

Freedman, author of the Newbery Medal–winning Lincoln: A Photobiography, tackles the Great Depression with the same flair as he does in his previous books. He creates a vivid visual picture of ...

Many of these children directly experienced the ravages of the Great Depression: Parents lost jobs, families lost social status, and downward mobility was commonplace, though some families largely ...

“A budget is a moral document,” as numerous human rights activists have said over the decades. If that is true, then the ...

Ronald Reagan convinced Republican voters that the "welfare queen" was ripping them off. Now they are going to pay the price.

Childhood depression is different from the normal "blues" and everyday emotions that occur as a child develops. WebMD explains the signs and treatment of childhood depression.

Still, a second Great Depression is not inevitable. All four of these factors, and the many others hurting families and killing Americans, are amenable to policy solutions.

The Migrant Mother,” a photograph taken by Dorothea Lange in 1936, remains one of the most enduring images of the Great Depression in the United States. This poignant image has become a symbol of the ...

Postpartum depression is also related to the way that mothers and children interact, and the way the caregiving relationship unfolds.