The stress of war lingers not just with our veterans but with their families as well. Take Vivian Greentree, Director of Research and Policy for Blue Star Families, for example. Vivian's husband Mike is frequently on deployment. Their son M.J. sees many families who deal with issues related to PTSD, and they themselves, like all military families, constantly deal with the daily stresses of military life. Vivian and M.J. join the program to share their experience.

Opponents of a controversial new Texas abortion measure, like Lillian Ortiz, a board member of NARAL Pro-Choice Texas, says the law disproportionately affects poor women, especially Latinas. But Texas State Representative Jason Villalba, a Republican from Dallas, supported the measure and says there is no basis behind the argument that Texas' law disproportionately affects poor women, and particularly those of color.

Christine Montross, assistant professor of psychiatry at Brown University, is a practicing psychiatrist who focuses on the most severe cases. Her patients ingest knives, nails and light-bulbs, and suffer from seizures and hallucinations and experience psychosis. She’s the author of “Falling into the Fire: A Psychiatrist’s Encounters with the Mind in Crisis.” She joins The Takeaway to discuss mental illness over the last 100 years and the strides that still need to be made.

You and your television set may be caught in a standoff between the Time Warner Cable and CBS Television. Time Warner's current contract with CBS expired this weekend, blocking out CBS stations, and cable networks owned by CBS, in large parts of New York, Los Angeles and Dallas. Jon Lafayette, Business Editor for Broadcasting and Cable Magazine, joins us to examine the stalemate and what's next for the media giants.

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For humans and many mammals, having a single, lifelong mate is extremely rare, except for some higher order primates. What was the evolutionary pathway to monogamy? Two studies published this week suggest an answer. Kit Opie, evolutionary anthropologist at University College London, was the lead author on one study published in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. He joins The Takeaway to discuss his research.

A new scientific paper suggests that some early pre-cancer diagnoses shouldn’t be called, or even treated, as cancer. Dr. Ian Thompson is the Director of the Cancer Therapy and Research Center at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. He is a co-leader of the National Cancer Institute working group that published this new paper and joins The Takeaway to discuss his findings.

The assisted living industry is a multibillion-dollar business. An investigation of the largest assisted living company in the country by FRONTLINE and ProPublica has found legal violations, serious lapses in care, and questionable deaths. A.C.Thompson has been the one investigating the assisted living industry. He joins The Takeaway to discuss his findings.

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Here at The Takeaway we followed the lives and stories of some spectacular individuals who are caregivers. More than 65.7 million Americans—almost 30 percent of the adult population—are caregivers. You've heard their voices—here they are in person. 

Over the decades, those who treat people with dementia have tried a number of methods of care to deal with symptoms, from physical exercise to drug therapy. Tena Alonzo, director of education and research at Beatitudes Campus in Phoenix, Arizona is pioneering a more revolutionary approach. As part of our week-long series on caregiving, Alonzo shares how her emotional approach to dementia care is changing lives for patients.

Defense contractor Lockheed Martin reported that profits have gone up 10 percent this year, but some defense department contracted workers are still on furloughs due to the sequester, which is impacting their paychecks. Joining the program is Dave Gassett, a mechanic in Arkansas who has worked for the federal government supporting the defense department for 38 years. He has been impacted by the sequester. The Takeaway also hears from real listeners to get a sense of what they think of the economy.

Throughout the week, we're talking with caregivers—people who give much of their time and energy to caring for children, parents and other loved ones who need regular and ongoing assistance. In some cases, this caregiving can last weeks or months. In others, it can last well-over a decade. Such has been the experience of Bernice Osborne-Pollard, long-term caregiver to her mother Mary who suffers from Alzheimer's disease. Bernice shares her story of love, caring, frustration, and overwhelming sacrifice.

When the care a patient requires becomes too great, families often call in help from nurses and home health aides who become a in integral part of the support system. 

Because of Congressional inaction, student loan interest rates doubled in July, from 3.4 to 6.8 percent. A deal made last week would drop student loan rates to 3.85 percent for undergrads for next year, and then the rate would be tied to the 10-year Treasury note. Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) is part of the bipartisan group of Senators that support the bill. He joins The Takeaway to discuss the details of the bill.

As part of caregivers series this week, we asked you to share your stories of caregiving with us. Frank Medina cares for his mother-in-law, who suffered a stroke in 2006. Medina and his family decided to put his mother-in-law into a nursing home, but found that she wasn't getting the care she needed in the facility. His wife decided to bring her mother home, putting everyone into the role of caregivers. He joins The Takeaway to tell his story.

All this week we're talking to some of the 66 million caregivers in America who work day and night to care for someone they love, a process that can sometimes be overwhelming. But for Peggy Battin, overwhelming doesn't begin to describe the change her life took two years ago when her husband Brooke Hopkins was struck by another cyclist, thrown from his bike onto his head, and nearly died.

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