The sister of the California mother whose 13 children had been found shackled and starved in their home claims the family refused to let her meet her nieces and nephews.
The Islamic State affiliate Boko Haram used at least 135 children to conduct suicide bombings in West Africa in 2017, according to statistics revealed by UNICEF this week.
Participation in the Women, Infant, and Children (WIC) welfare program hit a 17-year low in 2017, according to the latest data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
The nonprofit behind the children’s television show Sesame Street received $100 million in grant money to help Syrian refugee children.
Gospel references have been stripped from a nativity story because children’s fundamental biblical knowledge is so minimal they would fail to understand it, a leading Christian charity has said.
Almost half of the people in California speak a language other than English at home, according to a new government report.
As U.S. citizens Puerto Rican children can enroll in public schools and many are doing so following Hurricane Maria’s devastating strike on the island last month.
A motorcycle club is making it their mission to support victims of child abuse who are testifying in court against their abusers.
John Lewis has become the first major British retailer to remove ‘boys’ and ‘girls’ labels from children’s clothes to avoid what it calls “reinforcing gender stereotypes”.
JERUSALEM – A song depicting all of sovereign Israel as “my country Palestine” that will see “all its people return” was aired this week on a children’s program on official Palestinian Authority television, watchdog group Palestinian Media Watch reported.
PARIS (AP) – U.S. first lady Melania Trump took her own path through Paris on Thursday as she and President Donald Trump began a two-day visit to the French capital, starting at a children’s hospital.
A British couple of Sikh/Indian heritage are suing an adoption agency for allegedly refusing to consider them for adopting a white child, and advising them to go to India instead.
The Florida Democratic Party chair reached a truce with the two top African-American Democrats in the Florida legislature in a Tuesday meeting, the Miami Herald reported.
As the temperature increases in the coming months across the country, incidents of children being trapped in hot cars is set to increase. More than 700 children died from heat exhaustion in cars in 1998; 12 have already lost their lives this year alone. The HOT CARS Act of 2017 would require cars to be fitted with a system that alerts the driver if a child is left in the back seat after the engine is switched off.
An illegal immigrant was convicted and sentenced to life in prison after admitting to sexually abusing two young girls for nearly two years.
According to the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s new “Spying on Students” report, educational establishments that provide students with devices such as laptops or tablets are not respecting their privacy rights.
Pro-family groups leased a big orange tour bus to highlight the big obvious — but perhaps temporary — fact that a person’s male or female sex is decided by biology, not by politics.
TEL AVIV – Fighting between Islamic State-affiliated militants and the Egyptian army in the Sinai Peninsula has led to a 50% increase in trauma suffered by children in southern Israel who are hearing the sounds of explosions from across the border, the Hebrew news site Walla reported.
Syria’s children “hit rock bottom” in 2016, with more killed than in any other year of the civil war, the United Nations children’s organisation says.
JERUSALEM – “Pull the Trigger” was the soundtrack of the winning performance at a recent children’s dance competition at a community center in the West Bank city of Nablus, containing lyrics calling for “Jihad” and “attacking Zionists.”
NBC News released two videos on their website of children delivering personal messages to President Trump, with many of their statements criticizing the president a month into his presidency.
A new report indicates that San Francisco has the lowest percentage of children of any major city in America.
A member of the Los Angeles City Council has proposed a ban on adults without children hanging around the city’s parks and play areas.
Local councils and national welfare groups in Venezuela have confirmed an increase in parents giving away their children due to the economic crisis ravaging the country.
A Washington state couple could face decades in prison for allegedly injecting their three children with heroin.
LAFOURCHE PARISH, Louisiana – Two Louisiana teens were jailed after they taunted Central Lafourche High School, taking turns wearing a clown mask while driving circles around the school.
A Louisiana police chief says he is taking rumored incidents of clowns luring school children into wooded areas very seriously, telling pranksters they would be charged with “terrorizing” the community if caught.
Andy Wist connected himself to the sentiments of Donald Trump and Vice Presidential nominee Mike Pence.
President Barack Obama personally empathized with the victims of the Syrian conflict during a speech today, even as he touted his decision not to intervene to stop it with military force.
At least 20,000 children remain inside Fallujah, facing food and water shortages in addition to the extreme violence that has erupted as Iraqi forces, backed by the U.S. military and Iran-allied Shiite militias, fight to retake the Iraqi city from the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), reveals a component of the United Nations.
A backlash is growing against retail giant Target Corp. after its announcement this week that it will allow men who claim to be transgender to use whichever bathroom they choose while shopping or working at their stores. But after two days of a social media firestorm, forces are now gathering to #BoycottTarget over its bathroom policy.
A couple in Lake Forrest Park, Washington not only had their home violated, but now they feel they are being forced to go through the death of their infant son all over again because the thieves stole the funeral urn containing their child’s ashes.
An experiment conducted by a police officers and parents found that kids with guns in the home tended toward a greater respect for firearms and gun safety.
The Islamic Republic of Iran leads the way in invoking capital punishment upon minors, forgoing a past pledge to do away with the death penalty for citizens under eighteen, Amnesty International said in a report released Monday.
Convicted child molester Cesar De La Torre was apprehended near a middle school in Calimesa, California on December 29 after a six month investigation.
On Tuesday, President Obama unleashed a disgusting assault on more than half of Americans, suggesting over and over again that if they cared about dead children, they’d simply make way for his gun-control agenda.
Congressman Kevin Cramer (R-ND) is blowing the whistle on the Obama administration’s plan to house at least 5,000 illegal immigrant minors at six military bases across the United States.
GOP presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) responded to the now-removed Washington Post cartoon which made fun of Cruz’s daughters.
Over the past year, the number of children adopted by lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) couples and individuals reached a record high, comprising more than one in 12 of adoptions in the UK. This year marks the 10th anniversary
Parents will leave behind millions of children in their home villages to find work in larger cities, leaving the kids vulnerable to sexual abuse. The Chinese government reformed its residence system to provide migrants with better living standards in the cities.
