Every day, stories of tragic accidents make the front page of the newspaper, such as graphic descriptions of a school bus accident that killed eight kids or a fatal fire that wiped out an entire family. Every day, thousands of children worldwide die from hunger, but they don't generate many front-page headlines. Some kids are hoping to change that. "It would be incredible if just one day all o

Child abuse hot line The Indiana Chapter of the National Committee for the Prevention of Child Abuse offers the CARE Line, a toll-free information and referral line concerning child abuse and neglect. It's (800) 962-2798. Warning signs consistent and visible in behaviors of abused according to local social workers and sociologists. It's 7 a.m. You awake to a bleeping alarm and instinctively sh

Picture yourself on the phone with one of your friends, and he wants you to go to a party. You say, "No thanks." But he talks you into going. When you get there, you see people drinking and smoking. Your friends ask you to try some. But what do you do? Do you say yes, even though you don't want to? Or do you say no, feeling uncool and leave? Peer pressure begins early in life. Young children

Three members of governor's commission warn that, if services don't increase, the number of victims will continue to rise. Without further services, child abuse in Indiana will increase, not only in number but in severity, the director of the Pleasant Run Children's Homes says. "The number of families in crisis continues to increase, and the funding continues to stay stable or decrease. The st