Childhood

Writer and forester Ron Weber returned to his family home and tells us what he cherishes the most.

So I was just realizing that people mostly just know the story of what I went through and the songs that I wrote and everything after I left Wisconsin, from my Los Angeles move when I was 17 forward, working with Eminem and all that. That’s just not the core of who I am. So…

Hudson native Amy Timberlake crafts winter scenes and centers Wisconsin’s unique glacial topography in the plot of her latest book for young readers.

Wisconsin’s Christine Virnig gave up her medical career to write children’s books. She talks to “Wisconsin Today” about her new book, “Phantom Academy,” and her love of a good bathroom joke.

Jane Hamilton’s latest book ‘The Phoebe Variations’ tells the story of a teenage girl through the perspective of her older self reflecting on her formative experiences.

For one week at Belong Wisconsin’s summer camp, foster children experience what it is like to be close to their biological sibling. And as funding becomes uncertain, all involved with the camp are determined to keep it going.

Advocate and adoptee Diana Higgenbottom Anagnostopoulos shared the emotional and legal obstacles that some adoptees face without access to their original birth certificate.

For Alyssa Schade and the volunteers she works with, it’s about more than providing a place to sleep—it’s about giving kids a place to dream.

The Benniers felt all the challenges of new parenthood at once, multiplied by four. Their kids’ biological mother is present in everyone’s lives. Hardships are all around — but so is love.

UW-Madison researchers used data collected from more than 11,000 youth over four years to discover a new way of thinking about childhood trauma and mental illness.