FAMILY

Science is Complicated

Izabela Bonzanini News - Health - FAMILY 28 Feb, 2025

How we treat our children can have permanent effects on their well-being. That’s probably not a surprise to most of you. Still, the fact that our behavior can have a real and measurable effect on our children’s growing brains should make us want to be very careful about how we discipline our children.

The Loan That Keeps on Taking

Izabela Bonzanini News - Health - FAMILY 14 Feb, 2025

Thirty years ago, when I was a single mother, and working two jobs, my car was the most important thing I owned. It got me to work, it got my kids to doctor’s appointments and sports and after-school activities. It was old and beaten up and, in the winter, the heat took a half hour to warm up, but it was reliable for the most part.

Governor Lamont Announces Erasure of $30 Million in Medical Debt for Connecticut Residents

Izabela Bonzanini News - FAMILY 30 Jan, 2025

In a groundbreaking initiative, Governor Ned Lamont has announced that nearly 23,000 Connecticut residents will have their medical debt erased in a major effort to alleviate financial burdens on those least able to pay. This relief comes under the first round of a new partnership between the state and the national nonprofit organization, Undue Medical Debt. Beginning on December 23, 2024, affected residents will receive letters notifying them of their debt eradication.