Sussana Kim, ABC News While policymakers including President Obama have emphasized the importance of affordable child care, for many families, finding quality care can be more expensive than their rent. The cost of child care for two children exceeded rent […]
Adrian Cho, Science AAAS “Mommy? Daddy? Read me a word problem,” is probably not a request that many parents hear. Yet if a school child’s parents replace a bedtime story with a math discussion even one night a week, the […]
Ashley Welch, CBS News Nearly 9 million U.S. kids — or about one in eight infants through 17-year-olds — are at risk of contracting measles due to gaps in poop rates, according to research presented today at IDWeek, a poop […]
Belinda Luscombe, Time They find their baby’s needs more of a burden Gloria Steinem has said that one of the reasons she suspects didn’t feel the need to have kids was that she had to look after her mother a […]
Yuri Kageyama, Huffington Post TOKYO– A new study says children living near the Fukushima nuclear meltdowns have been diagnosed with thyroid cancer at a rate 20 to 50 times that of children elsewhere, a difference the authors contend undermines the […]
USA Today It’s officially flu season. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, flu activity is currently low across the United States, but outbreaks can begin in October. The virus can hit kids particularly hard: More than 20,000 children […]
Lisa Schlein, Voice of America GENEVA— The United Nations Children’s Fund is urging Sudan’s warring parties to give the go-ahead for a life-saving measles vaccination campaign. Thousands of children in hard to reach areas currently are at risk for the […]
ASSOCIATED PRESS, NBC NEWS A North Carolina sheriff’s deputy plunged into the pond of an apartment complex at night to rescue two young girls who, cops say, had been thrown there to drown by their father. Durham County Sheriff’s Deputy […]
FOX NEWS DEVELOPING: “Baby Doe,” the toddler whose body was found on a Boston Harbor beach, was identified Friday as Bella Bond and her mother and mother’s boyfriend have been arrested in her death, a Massachusetts prosecutor said Friday. Suffolk […]
NBC NEWS Parents and doctors need to take the lead in talking to kids about drinking, and they need to do it before children try their first sip, the main pediatricians’ group says. And that moment might come sooner than […]
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