child
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That was until she enrolled in Dr. Bruce Chorpita’s Youth Behavioral Health Intervention course, where she learned about local disparities in mental healthcare and child psychology.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 6, 2026
Four in five include either a child, an elderly individual or a nonelderly individual with a disability.
From Salon • Apr. 6, 2026
It said the government could make it easier for workers to get jobs in human-centric fields like child care and could do more to recognize caregiving as work valuable to the economy.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026
She then gave birth to a severely premature child who died about two hours later.
From Slate • Apr. 6, 2026
Leah banished her only child, shipping Lizzie eight hundred miles away to live in Illinois with the father she barely knew.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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