Death and Loss

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Dangers of Drug Abuse

Beginning way back in 1975, the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research has been surveying high school students on their behaviors regarding drug and alcohol abuse. The survey launched when it was recognized that the 1960s had brought a…
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Kids, Fentanyl, and Overdose Deaths

Ever since teenage drug abuse ramped up in the nineteen sixties, schools, mental health professionals, the government, and parents have all been working to stem the tide of abuse and addiction. One of the greatest concerns has been the very…
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Parent Prompt: Grief

CPYU Parent Prompts are a regularly released resource to spark biblically-centered conversations with your kids about the issues they face in today’s youth culture. Parents, now is the time to prepare your children and teens to face the various times…
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Death Rates Rising

A recent report in the Journal of the American Medical Association tells us that the mortality rate for children ages one to nineteen increased by almost eleven percent between 2019 and 2020, and an additional eight percent between 2020 and…
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The Gift of Children

At the end of John Gunther’s classic 1949 book, Death Be Not Proud, about the death of his 17-year-old son Johnny from a brain tumor, Johnny’s mom offered a few pages of her thoughts regarding her son’s death. Her words…
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