The Chinese-owned social media platform TikTok is facing a major legal challenge from the former children’s commissioner for England, Anne Longfield, over the app’s collection and use of children’s data. TikTok faces potential damages in the billions if the lawsuit is successful.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly under pressure from an international coalition of 35 children’s and consumer groups to drop plans for a version of Instagram aimed towards children under 13.
Police in Kansas City, Missouri, arrested a mother once she crashed her car and allegedly pulled out a gun while her two children were inside the vehicle.
Ministers have reportedly left open the possibility of requiring children to have coronavirus immunity passports in order to access events at large venues.
State troopers in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Connecticut joined forces to make Easter special for a little girl who recently lost her parents.
According to a recent report, Facebook is developing a new version of Instagram aimed at children under the age of 13.
An Egyptian national was sentenced to 212 years in federal prison Thursday for killing his two autistic children in a staged car accident so he could collect money off their life insurance policies.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson faces opposition from amongst his own Conservative MPs over the government’s recommendation that children wear masks in classrooms if they cannot socially distance, with leading backbencher Sir Graham Brady warning it will cause psychological damage and disrupt learning.
A parent has described to a major British newspaper the prospect of a “mask apartheid” when schools reopen next week, after some educators have determined that while they cannot legally force children to wear masks, they will be segregated from their peers.
The yearly suicide rate for Japanese schoolchildren surged to 479 in 2020, the highest figure recorded since Japan began keeping records of the statistic in 1980, Japan’s education ministry revealed Monday.
The number of children aged nine to 12 self-harming in the UK has doubled in just six years, with indications that mental health problems are increasing amongst the very young.
A London psychiatrist has said he is not under any doubt that the coronavirus lockdown has led to a surge in mental health referrals for children, saying the figure had “skyrocketed”.
Hungary’s minister for families believes that “the demographic crisis of the Western world” is one of its greatest challenges, and that without serious action to support parents “Europe will be lost.”
Hong Kong’s education ministry released guidelines on Thursday to teach schoolchildren as young as six years old to abide by the city’s national security law, imposed by China on Hong Kong last summer.
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) unveiled a proposal Thursday to provide a monthly cash benefit to families with children.
“Black Lives Matter at School Week” uses lesson plan “resources” that teach young children to be transgender and queer “affirming.”
Dozens of missing children were rescued in Southern California during a recent human trafficking probe, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
The Boris Johnson administration’s efforts to pass legislation which will allow the state to recruit children to spy on their parents and even break the law while doing so has horrified some of the party’s top parliamentarians.
Five children found shot to death after a house fire last year in West Virginia were killed by their mother, who then killed herself, officials said Thursday.
Police have issued an Amber Alert and are searching for two children allegedly abducted from their home in Greece, New York, on Monday.
Public schools across the country are quickly responding to Wednesday’s events at the U.S. Capitol by offering “emotional support” for students and teaching vocabulary words such as “insurrection” and “sedition.”
A Danish TV network has launched a new show, reportedly aimed at audiences between the ages of 4 and 8, about a man with an unrealistically large and retractable penis.
Lawmakers in the state of Alabama have sponsored legislation designed to protect minors 18 and younger from life-altering drugs and surgery based on their belief that their gender differs from their biological sex.
A man in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, is on a mission to provide comforting teddy bears for children staying in local hospitals.
A family in New Jersey is thankful for five young men who saved their two children from a frozen pond on December 17.
A family in Toms River, New Jersey, has opened their house to six orphaned siblings to keep them together.
The El Paso, Texas, Police Department Gang Unit loaded their squad cars and an armored vehicle on Tuesday not with weapons, but with Christmas gifts to give to children.
A retired couple in Desert Hot Springs, California, is busy making toys for local children to enjoy this Christmas.
Pediatric patients at a cancer treatment and research hospital in Houston, Texas, got a super surprise on Thursday morning.
CA Governor Gavin Newsom continues to keep an iron grip on the state’s residents with coronavirus restrictions, including closing playgrounds.
A man in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, is using his talent for carpentry to help children doing their schoolwork at home.
Fifty-seven-year-old Bronx resident Paul Alexander was arrested Thursday for allegedly trafficking girls as young as 12 years old.
More than 1,000 paratroopers at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, jumped from C-130 aircraft and helicopters this week to help donate toys to needy children.
The U.K. High Court ruled children under the age of 16 are not mentally and emotionally capable of making decisions about gender treatment.
C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital conducted a national poll on family gatherings on Thanksgiving that reveals parents believe gathering with extended family is important for children to build relationships and take part in family traditions.
A California woman is suing a fertility doctor in Glen Allen, Virginia, for fathering two of her children without her permission.
The former owner of a testing lab in Alabama received a prison sentence last week for falsifying records, actions prosecutors say caused several families great pain.
A couple made two special needs children in need of a home a permanent part of their family this summer in Gadsden, Alabama.
China forced hundreds of thousands of children in Xinjiang, where the majority of the population belongs to the ethnic Uyghur minority, into “boarding schools” as they lost their parents to communist concentration camps, Bitter Winter, citing researcher Adrian Zenz, reported on Sunday.
Pollsters are saying British parents think traditional fairy tales — particularly those that feature a “damsel in distress” — don’t align with modern sensibilities, as the BBC promotes a woke reimagining of the fables by former Blue Peter presenter Konnie Huq.
