Infant home visiting program linked to less child abuse

DURHAM, N.C. — Family Connects, a program where nurses conduct home visits for newborns and their families, is linked to substantial reductions in child maltreatment investigations in children’s earliest years, according to new research from Duke University. Program participants had 44 percent lower rates of child maltreatment investigations during children’s first 24 months of life,…

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Cynthia Schmitt, Tracie Palmer

Cynthia Anne Schmitt and Tracie Lynn Palmer were married in a self-uniting ceremony on Nov. 9 in the auditorium of the Bok Building, a former technical high school converted into retail and studio spaces, in Philadelphia. Heather Marg Bracken, a meditation teacher of the couple, led the ceremony incorporating Buddhist traditions. Ms. Schmitt (left), 42,…

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Beryl Sanders, Ari Khuner Haber

Beryl Rebecca Sanders and Ari Jacob Khuner Haber were married Nov. 9 at the Queens Museum in Flushing Meadows, Corona Park, Queens. Rabbi Jonathan Jaffe officiated, with Ariel Platt, a friend of the couple, leading the ceremony. Ms. Sanders, 28, is a senior manager for business development at Uber Eats in San Francisco, where she…

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Brittani Jackson, Averill Wickland

Brittani Alexandria Jackson and Averill Quinn Wickland were married Nov. 9 at Piedmont Garden Tent, an events space in Atlanta. The Rev. Norward P. Brodie, the bride’s grandfather and a Baptist minister, officiated. The bride, 33, is a lawyer in Los Angeles at the litigation firm Hueston Hennigan. She graduated from Stanford and received a…

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