A panel from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit rejected a judge’s argument that those under 21 were historically “believed unfit” for “responsible firearm possession and use.”
Tag: Teenagers and Adolescence
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Pediatricians Hold the Front Lines of a Mental Health Crisis
Around the country, the setting for adolescent mental health care looks ever more like this doctor’s office in Kentucky, the next patient arriving every 15 minutes.
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Hundreds of Suicidal Teens Sleep in Emergency Rooms. Every Night.
With inpatient psychiatric services in short supply, adolescents are spending days, even weeks, in hospital emergency departments awaiting the help they desperately need.
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Few Transgender Children Change Their Minds After 5 Years, Study Finds
But the study, which began in 2013, may not fully reflect what’s happening today, when many more children are identifying as trans.