A 39-year-old man was sentenced to three weeks' jail on Oct. 9 for slapping a six-year-old boy at a Westgate indoor ...

Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA ...

DEAR MOTHER: Empathy for whom -- the mother or the child? Mature parents do not slap their children across the face for acting up. They take the kid out of the store until they calm down.

A Utah mother is pledging to fight for state oversight change after her 2-year-old son went missing for as long as 45 minutes ...

One local leader is working with lawmakers in Topeka to fix the problem. Work is going on in the Wichita area and the state capital to revise Kansas’s juvenile justice laws. One possible solution: ...