Source: The Guardian By Harriet SherwoodReligion correspondent About half a million babies in Britain, most with unmarried mothers, were adopted from the 50s to the 70s via church-run agencies. Photograph: Tom Merton/Getty Images/Caiaimage Pressure is mounting for a public inquiry into the adoption of hundreds of thousands of babies born to […]
Source: Pew Research Center BY DAVID MCCLENDON AND ALEKSANDRA SANDSTROM2 COMMENTS About 57,800 minors in the U.S. ages 15 to 17 were married as of 2014. That might sound like a lot of people (and it is), but it’s also just five of every 1,000 in that age group, a […]
Source: Time By Susanna Schrobsdorff The first time Faith-Ann Bishop cut herself, she was in eighth grade. It was 2 in the morning, and as her parents slept, she sat on […]
Source: Time Budget air carrier IndiGo recently announced kid-free Quiet Zones on its flights, adding to an ever-growing list of airlines creating adults-only spaces. It’s a controversial move. Some customers and airlines say the policy gives people traveling for business a better chance to get work done or grab a nap. Others think the policy is […]
Source: Pew Research Center BY ALEKSANDRA SANDSTROM AND ANGELINA E. THEODOROU Almost all of the world’s nations have laws specifying at what age a couple can marry, and in most of […]
Source: BBC By Christian Jarrett 9 September 2016 Your personality has been sculpted by many hands. Your genes, your friends, the schools you attended, plus many other factors, will all […]
Source: http://www.atfalusa.org/father/ “Raising children is the responsibility of mothers and fathers have nothing to do with it.” Yes, this is an absurd statement but then why many fathers act in this way – You, as a father are as equal of a role model as your wives. Names such as Dad, […]
Source: Time By Jordan Raine, University of Sussex / The Conversation Have you ever been sat on a flight with a crying baby in your vicinity, wondering more and more with […]
Source: THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR By Vic Ryckaert An Indianapolis woman who beat her 7-year-old son with a coat hanger is citing Indiana’s religious freedom law as a defense against felony child abuse charges, saying her choice of discipline comes straight from her evangelical Christian beliefs. The woman quoted biblical Scripture in court documents. She said that […]
Source: The New York Times MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — It had been more than a month, and Dije Ali was still locked in a military prison with her seven children. She […]
Source: BBC The Gambia and Tanzania have banned child marriage, with tough penalties for those who breach the rulings. Gambia’s President Yayha Jammeh announced that anyone marrying a girl below […]
Source: The Washington Post It was the last day of Camp Ramadan, and a sea of smiling parents had their arms outstretched, holding up more than a dozen cellphones to […]
Source: Time By Alice Park Sleep experts combed through hundreds of studies to determine how much children of different ages should sleep to be at their healthiest It’s no secret that […]
Source: Los Angeles Times By Sonali Kohli The Japanese American children who spent years in World War II internment camps were hopeful. Some thought racial discrimination would end after the […]
Source: BBC Some 75 million school-age children in crisis areas around the world are in desperate need of educational support, according to a new report by Unicef. One in four […]
Fight for Children’s Rights; to find some way to establish a legal balance between rights of the parents and the rights of the child Source: RT In a bid […]
Source: The Guardian A devout Muslim has failed to persuade a high court judge to rule that his sons should be circumcised. The man, who was born in Algeria but […]
Source: BBC Boko Haram’s use of child bombers has increased over the last year with one in five suicide attacks now done by children, the UN’s child agency says. Girls, […]
Source: Financial Times By Sarah O’Connor Employment Correspondent Pity school careers advisers. If economists are to be believed, vast numbers of jobs will have evaporated by the time today’s pupils […]
Source: MSN News The city will give new mothers and fathers six weeks of paid leave after a birth or adoption. Watch Video