When she saw a kid rummaging through her purse, she politely discouraged the behavior—and their mom wasn't having it.

So, people took notice when Nika Douvikas, MD, a pediatrician in New Jersey, advised on the subject in a TikTok video earlier this month. “Give in to your kids right away,” she says in the video. The ...

"I have no child. She's gone," Seitz said. Since then, she said she has connected with three other moms in Boone County whose children have also died by suicide. The Boone County Coroner's ...