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CNN
April 25, 2018
Before a legally intoxicated Jennifer Hart drove her wife and at least four of their six adopted children off a cliff in Mendocino County, California, last month, the family had drawn the attention of child welfare authorities in both states after multiple reports that the kids were neglected and malnourished.
MarketWatch
April 25, 2018
Unlike many British and American families, the royal couple don't have to worry about the cost of child care. American moms have 2.4 children on average, down from 3.01 children on average in 1973, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Fewer Americans have having more than three children.
The Guardian
April 25, 2018
Google is updating its YouTube Kids app to improve the control over the videos and channels that can be watched by children. YouTube Kids is a separate app for smartphones and tablets that provides access to a subset of the videos available on the main site. There have been 70bn video views since theÃâà...
New York Times
April 25, 2018
Children are dependent on their parents to help them manage and make sense of their world and deal with childhood anxieties. It would be terrifying for both the child and the parent to be abruptly separated from each other. Many prominent psychologists have written about the critical importance of thisÃâà...
BBC News
April 25, 2018
Doctors are warning that key standards in children's services are not being met due to staffing pressures. A survey by ... The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) asked paediatric units across the UK if they were meeting two sets of best practice standards drawn up by a panel of experts.
CNN
April 25, 2018
In the United States, couples spend 25.6% of their income on child care costs and that number soars to 52.7% for single parents, according to the report from the OECD. Child care in the US is mostly privatized. The average cost of full-time care for young children in care centers in the US is about $9,589 aÃâà...
KRQE News 13
April 25, 2018
New Mexico's child care center workers overseeing more than 50,000 kids are about to get more help when it comes to identifying and reporting child abuse. "We are advocates for these children and we do want what's best for the children," Coronado Children's Center Co-Director Rogelle Price stated.
Quartz
April 25, 2018
Britain is sitting on yet another immigration scandal—one that could see children born or raised in the UK being put in a legal limbo, simply because their ... If a child is born in the UK and if, at the time of birth, at least one of their parents has British citizenship or settled status, then the child automaticallyÃâà...
Quartz
April 22, 2018
Following the journey of children through the Nigerian education system, and the federal funding that follows them, is a traumatic exercise. At the primary school level (the responsibility of cash-strapped and hapless state governments) and secondary levels (where the federal government steps in with aÃâà...
BBC News
April 22, 2018
Social media firms are being threatened with new laws if they don't do more to protect children online. In a letter to ... He has also asked the chief medical officer to launch a review into the impact of technology on the mental health of children and young people. ... Does your child use social media? Do youÃâà...
Telegraph.co.uk
April 22, 2018
Tom Daley has spoken about the difficulties of having a child via a surrogate in the UK, as he and his husband celebrated the imminent arrival of their son with a baby shower. The Olympic diver told Nick Robinson on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show: " The laws in the UK are very different to the laws in theÃâà...
PEOPLE.com
April 22, 2018
A source previously told PEOPLE that Middleton and Matthews are looking forward to settling down and “having children and leading a quiet life.” Pippa's pregnancy also comes after her father-in-law David Matthews was reportedly arrested in March following accusations he allegedly raped a minor in theÃâà...
NPR
April 22, 2018
"The bulk of the child care during the day was up to me," she said. And when she had work to do, she'd get help with watching the kids — but it was free. "My mother is a teacher. She comes home at 3:30 every afternoon, and she would watch my children from 3:30 on, and that's when I'd start consulting,"Ãâà...
Page Six
April 22, 2018
Pippa Middleton is pregnant with her first child, the Sun on Sunday can reveal. ... Kate, only days away from giving birth to her third child, was the first person after Pippa's husband, James Matthews, to hear the good news. ... The friend added: “Pippa and James have always known they wanted children.”.
WFLA
April 22, 2018
FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) - A Florida man has been sentenced to 330 years in prison on child pornography charges after he was convicted of taking sex tourism trips to the Philippines. Authorities say David Lynch made videos of his sexual encounters with children as young as six-years-old and posted themÃâà...
National Geographic
April 21, 2018
In Shravasti, Khandelwal asked the mother of a young bride who also been married as child: Why are you subjecting your daughter to the same fate? The mother replied that she'd prefer not to, but there were few other options. Her husband was a day laborer and she and her children gathered and soldÃâà...
CNN
April 21, 2018
The order -- known as an ordinance -- was approved Saturday at a Cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, according to India's Ministry of Women and Child Development. The change in the law will only become permanent once it is approved by India's Parliament, which is currently inÃâà...
BBC News
April 20, 2018
Campaigners have lost a High Court challenge to the government's two-child limit on some benefits. Lawyers representing three families had argued that the policy was incompatible with human rights law. But a judge has ruled that limiting tax credits and universal credit to a family's first two children isÃâà...
Wired.co.uk
April 19, 2018
Centres of excellence remain, but increasingly, it feels, we're putting our children at risk of losing out to the robots, while China is building on its strong foundations to ask how its young people can be high-tech pioneers. They're thinking big – we're thinking of test scores. Over a final lunch in Shanghai,Ãâà...
Charleston Post Courier
April 19, 2018
A North Charleston mother is suing the Secessionist Party of South Carolina after two of her children were photographed holding Confederate flag ... Charleston Attorney Roy Willey IV said one goal of the suit is to prevent instances such as this from happening again in which a minor child is made to takeÃâà...
PEOPLE.com
April 19, 2018
After a year together, Johnson recently proposed to the Destiny's Child singer — and the pair can't wait to walk down the aisle. Nearly one month into their secret engagement, the couple opened up to PEOPLE exclusively about their love story. “We could not contain this any longer!” Williams says of finallyÃâà...
Today.com
April 19, 2018
'She's like an angel to me': Barbara Bush to be laid to rest beside child she lost ... St. Jude Children's Research Hospital estimates the survival rate for the most common type of leukemia to be 94 percent, thanks to improved technology as well as cells and DNA preserved from patients treated in the 1960s,Ãâà...
Asheville Citizen-Times
April 19, 2018
ASHEVILLE — A sixth child of the 32-year-old mother who was killed at a West Asheville home was not present at the time of the late Wednesday shooting, police said. Police say Erica Nichelle Smith, along with her two teenage children, were shot by Smith's boyfriend Wednesday night at a home at 73Ãâà...
KARE11.com
April 19, 2018
On the other hand, young people who reported adverse childhood experiences (e.g., verbal or physical abuse, living with a parent who was an ... “What we are seeing in our research is that building on the positive relationships and opportunities in a young person's life help prevent alcohol use and all theÃâà...
ABC News
April 19, 2018
"Every child deserves a caregiver who is honest and responsible. And no one should think they can lie when it comes to the care and safety of our children." Ortega had pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. Her defense attorney, Valerie Van Leer-Greenberg, argued she was "suffering from severeÃâà...
Gizmodo
April 19, 2018
He even claimed that he was hunted down by the Gestapo for refusing to hand over profoundly disabled children. But new ... Asperger “publicly legitimized race hygiene policies including forced sterilizations and, on several occasions, actively cooperated with the child 'euthanasia' program,” Czech writes.
Page Six
April 19, 2018
SALT LAKE CITY — Police say a 2-year-old boy whose polygamous family is featured on a reality TV show has died following a fire in a southeastern Utah home. The Deseret News reports Adonija Foster died of smoke inhalation Saturday after a fire ignited in the room where he was sleeping. Members ofÃâà...
NPR
April 19, 2018
Thousands of Russian Muslim men joined the Islamic State and brought their families with them to Iraq and Syria. But now that ISIS has lost most of its territory – and with many of those Russian fighters now dead – the Russian government is desperately searching for their lost wives and children. HundredsÃâà...
The Guardian
April 17, 2018
For legal reasons, Tate cannot specify an age range for the new trustee, but they will be expected to have a “commitment, connection and real insight” into the generation born after 1978, Balshaw said. Tate's initiative has been supported by the culture secretary, Matt Hancock. He said: “Young people areÃâà...
The Independent
April 17, 2018
The question has been heavily debated on social media after a mother of four appeared on This Morning explaining why she has no qualms favouring one of her children over her three others. Alisha Tierney-March, from Sheffield, explained why she doesn't think there's anything wrong with having aÃâà...
PEOPLE.com
April 17, 2018
Jeremy Renner's buzzing career in Hollywood is earning him a big paycheck — meaning his child support payments are changing. When The Avengers star split from ex-wife Sonni Pacheco due to “irreconcilable differences” in 2015, the duo agreed to share custody of their now 5-year-old daughter Ava,Ãâà...
WOODTV.com
April 17, 2018
Ottawa was among the top five counties with the lowest percentage of children living in poverty, portion of students eligible for subsidized lunches and food ... The Kids Count report also pointed out how youth treated as adults by the justice system were 34 percent more likely to reoffend, do it sooner, andÃâà...
Chicago Tribune
April 17, 2018
Thousands of free, popular children's apps available on the Google Play Store could be violating child privacy laws, according to a new, large-scale study, highlighting growing criticism of Silicon Valley's data collection efforts. Seven researchers analyzed nearly 6,000 apps for children and found that theÃâà...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
April 17, 2018
They'll then receive the rebate checks later in the summer — just a few months before the November election. “This rebate and sales tax holiday will help Wisconsin families with the costs of raising children,” Walker said in a statement. “A couple hundred dollars more in the family budget could really make aÃâà...
New York Times
April 17, 2018
The child was abducted in January and imprisoned for a week in a temple, where she was drugged, starved and raped repeatedly before being murdered. Her body was ... for the crime. A B.J.P. youth activist posted a comment, now deleted, on his Facebook page saying that the rape must have been fun.
New York Times
April 17, 2018
When you were a child, you likely didn't watch “Gigi” on the TV in your parents' townhouse with the Studio 54 impresario Steve Rubell, as New York City's brightest social and creative lights rang in the new year on the floors below. The novelist Kurt Vonnegut probably didn't take a liking to you at a socialÃâà...
The Guardian
April 16, 2018
They urge schools, GPs and nurses to talk to young people and those who may be planning a family about how to be fitter and healthier before they embark on pregnancy. What happens in the “pre-conception” period can have a profound impact on the growth, development and long-term health of children,Ãâà...
KTRK-TV
April 4, 2018
... him $1,600 to keep quiet. When interviewed by authorities, Maeweather confessed to some sexual contact with the boy. He's been charged with sexual assault of a child under 17 years of age. Report a Typo. Related Topics: child sex assaultsex abuse against childrensex crimesex assaultHarris County.
TIME
April 4, 2018
(SEATTLE) — A woman said Tuesday that she told Oregon child welfare officials in 2013 that Jennifer and Sarah Hart — who plunged off a California cliff with their children last month in an SUV — had been depriving the kids of food as punishment. In a statement provided to The Associated Press,Ãâà...
Aljazeera.com
April 4, 2018
A new generation of young people are embracing Martin Luther King Jr's message as they lead movements throughout the US. ... As a 12-year-old boy, he marched in the Birmingham Children's Crusade to protest his city's rigid racial segregation, the hand-me-down textbooks, the endless reminders, bigÃâà...
KPTV.com
April 4, 2018
More than 70 search and rescue personnel are looking for three missing children of a Woodland, Washington family. ... Health Services opened a Child Protective Services investigation of the family on March 23, as the agency reported the children were identified as potential victims of abuse or neglect.
KGW.com
April 4, 2018
Before Jennifer Hart drove her family's SUV off of a California cliff, killing her wife, Sarah, and at least three of their six children, there were several child welfare complaints against the mothers with allegations ranging from withholding food as a punishment to beating one of their daughters with a belt.
NBCNews.com
April 4, 2018
Footage and photographs released by the Taliban purported to show dead and injured children being buried or carried away from the rubble on stretchers. The Taliban, which has a history of exaggerating its battlefield victories and underplaying its defeats, insisted none of their forces had been present atÃâà...
Detroit Free Press
April 4, 2018
A Florida judge has ruled that for now, Cabrera must pay Rodriguez $12,247 a month in child support, in addition to financing the children's private schooling, day care, health insurance and extracurricular activities. Rodriguez, meanwhile, can still fight for more of Cabrera's money for her children as theÃâà...
NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth
April 4, 2018
A Prosper man was arrested at his home and taken into custody Tuesday for child pornography, Collin County officials said. The Collin County Sheriff's Office Child Exploitation Unit along with Plano and Prosper police arrested Bryan Nimmo for possession of child pornography. Nimmo's computers wereÃâà...
The Guardian
April 4, 2018
However, child sexual abuse cannot be countered by enforcement alone. “It requires schools and parents to educate children to ensure they stay safe, as well as for technology and social media companies to take their responsibilities seriously in protecting young people online. “Alongside the importantÃâà...
WTOP
April 3, 2018
He's pleaded guilty to 27 charges involving dozens of children. Prosecutors put forward evidence to support 206 charges involving 42 child victims between 11 and 17. All the victims were boys. However, the 30-year-old took a plea deal on Jan. 5 in the state case, admitting guilt on 27 charges, including theÃâà...
The Guardian
April 3, 2018
Thirteen men, including a primary school teacher, have been charged following raids across Victoria that allegedly uncovered child abuse material featuring victims ... Investigators arrested the men in the hope they would be able to rescue children from international child pornography rings, he said.
OregonLive.com
April 3, 2018
The parents of Devonte Hart removed him and his five siblings from public schools in Minnesota the day after one of his mothers resolved a child-abuse court case, The Oregonian/OregonLive has learned. Sarah Hart reached a probation agreement April 14, 2011, a week after she pleaded guilty toÃâà...
Project Syndicate
April 3, 2018
Almost a century ago, Eglantyne Jebb, who founded Save the Children, said that the only language everybody could understand was the cry of a child. But as today's young people connect, communicate, and assert their rights, their cries are less likely to be tearful pleas for charity than defiant marchesÃâà...
