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Los Angeles Times
April 22, 2018
An argument turned deadly in Compton early Saturday after a man shot and killed his girlfriend and wounded the couple's young daughter, investigators said. Juan Rodriguez, 29, of Compton, was arrested on suspicion of murder and assault with a deadly weapon after gunfire broke out in the 12400 blockÃâà...
CBS News
April 22, 2018
NEW DELHI -- India's government on Saturday approved of the death penalty for people convicted of raping children under 12, responding to widespread outrage over the recent rape and killing of a young girl and other attacks on children. An order was approved by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's CabinetÃâà...
ABC Online
April 22, 2018
The South Australian Government has become the last state in Australia to provide free flu vaccinations for children aged five-and-under in an effort to reduce the record flu season seen in 2017. About 90 thousand children, aged between six months and five years old, will be eligible for the jab.
The Independent
April 22, 2018
In a strongly-worded letter to platforms like Facebook and Google, health secretary Jeremy Hunt has accused companies of “turning a blind eye” to a generation of children who are being “exposed to harmful emotional side effects” of social media use. The firms have been given just over a week to set outÃâà...
Splinter (blog)
April 22, 2018
Homeland Security and immigration officials have been separating hundreds and hundreds of immigrant children from their parents at the U.S. border, and officials appear to have been consistently misleading the public about it. A report in The New York Times on Friday revealed that more than 700Ãâà...
PEOPLE.com
April 21, 2018
Weisz announced that she and husband of seven years, Daniel Craig, were expecting their first child together in an interview with the New York Times. “We're going to have a little human,” she said. “We can't wait to meet him or her. It's all such a mystery.” The Oscar winner, 48, is already mom to Henry, 11,Ãâà...
New York Times
April 21, 2018
“As required by law, D.H.S. must protect the best interests of minor children crossing our borders, and occasionally this results in separating children from an adult they are traveling with if we cannot ascertain the parental relationship, or if we think the child is otherwise in danger,” a spokesman for theÃâà...
CNN
April 21, 2018
And now, for those women still in Syria, they live in dust-coated tents, or sometimes in prison rooms, alongside their children, inhabiting a legal purgatory until one authority or another figures out what to do with them. What do you do with an "ISIS bride" far from home who says she was a victim, but alsoÃâà...
10TV
April 20, 2018
Dublin business owner gets 5-year probation for public indecency involving children | WBNS-10TV Columbus, Ohio | Columbus News, Weather & Sports ... COLUMBUS, Ohio -- A Dublin businessman convicted of touching himself and exposing himself to a child is sentenced to five years of probation andÃâà...
NPR
April 20, 2018
Sir Alan Parker announced Thursday he was stepping down as chair of Save the Children International and resigning from the board. The move follows accusations of inappropriate behavior leveled against former leadership at the charity that bills itself as helping 50 million of the world's most vulnerableÃâà...
BBC News
April 20, 2018
Campaigners have lost a High Court challenge to the government's two-child benefit cap. Lawyers representing three families had argued that the policy was incompatible with human rights law. But on Friday, a judge ruled that limiting some benefits to the first two children in a family was lawful. HoweverÃâà...
Toledo Blade
April 20, 2018
Parents of an 8-week-old boy are each facing a felony charge after police say the child was abused Wednesday while under his father's care, according to documents filed in Toledo Municipal Court. Sabrina Robertson, 22, and Deonte Lee, 22, both of the 120 block of Ravine Park Village, are charged withÃâà...
Wichita Eagle
April 20, 2018
When she tried to ask him about what happened to her as a child, she said, Bodine first denied it, then treated it as “a big joke to him.” He told her she was ... “But when you have children, you love them and you care about them and their needs, and it becomes a part of you,” she said. “My children are myÃâà...
ABC15 Arizona
April 20, 2018
PHOENIX - Phoenix police are investigating after a young child was run over and killed by a parent Thursday night. According to Phoenix police, 21-months-old Samuel Hamilton was killed after struck by a car near Interstate 17 and Northern Avenue. Authorities say the victim's father, 49-year-old RichardÃâà...
Monroe News Star
April 20, 2018
A second degree murder charge has been filed for the mom of a two-year-old West Monroe child. Her alleged boyfriend is also accused of murder. The child in the investigation, Gavin Lowery, age two, died Saturday, April 14 from his injuries. Lowery was reportedly burned by hot water and later suffocated.
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...
Aljazeera.com
April 3, 2018
Yemen: Children among 14 dead in Saudi-led air raid on Hudaida. An air raid by Saudi-led coalition near Yemen's Red Sea port of Hudaida killed at least 14 civilians, including seven children, medics and witnesses say. by Paul Chaderjian. 7 hours agoÃâà...
NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth
April 3, 2018
22 and charged in Dallas County with three counts of sexual assault of a child and ordered held on bond of $75,000. On Feb. 26 he was charged with three additional counts of sexual assault of a child, this time in Kaufman County, and held on $300,000 bond. As of April 3, Steven Winn remains held in theÃâà...
BBC News
April 3, 2018
To feel differently is almost unspeakable, but there are women who regret having children. ... "If I could turn the clock back I would not have had children," says Rachel who is now in her 50s. ... "Everyone speaks of having this child handed to them, and this wild fabulous love that courses through them.
The Guardian
April 3, 2018
... mental health than children of parents who stay together. Marriage isn't really the point. What matters is that children have love, care and a stable home. Nearly half of children in single-parent families are living in poverty. You try giving your child a stable home when you're not sure if you can pay the rent.
The Independent
April 3, 2018
Long before Kyl Myers ever gave birth, she knew she wanted her child to be a "theyby," or a baby raised without the construct of gender. Speaking to The ... However, although the phenomenon of raising children as theybies is becoming more common, there are many who still struggle to grasp the concept.
KOMO News
April 3, 2018
The parents, Jennifer and Sarah Hart, along with three of their adopted children, were found dead from a crash in Mendocino County. Three of the children, Devonte, Hannah and Sierra, are missing, but investigators believe they were in the car at the time of the crash. Christine Washington said she met the family in 2014 atÃâà...
The Independent
April 2, 2018
Over the same period, there was a 108 per cent increase in child protection investigations. A separate study found that benefit cuts and increased levels of poverty across the UK were the primary cause for the surge in demand for children's services, while a lack of resources to provide universal servicesÃâà...
KBTX
March 25, 2018
COLLEGE STATION, Tex. (KBTX) - On Friday night police were called to the 300 block of Spruce after a man threatened a child with a knife. Police say when the girl was waiting in the car for her mom, 25-year-old James Bounds approached the car while shaking a knife and making verbal threats to harmÃâà...
CNN
March 25, 2018
(CNN) "Our children are dying! Trump is golfing!" Those seven words, which appeared on one of the thousands of signs at Saturday's "March for Our Lives" rally in Washington, D.C., succinctly summed up the sentiment of so many. As one high school student told CNN's Ana Cabrera on Saturday night,Ãâà...
BBC News
March 25, 2018
A teenage girl was seriously hurt when a car was driven deliberately into a group of children in Glasgow. The children, aged between 12 and 14, were standing on the pavement near shops in Castlemilk at about 15:30 on Saturday afternoon. A man drove his silver Vauxhall Astra at the group, hitting five ofÃâà...
Telegraph.co.uk
March 25, 2018
BBC journalists are to visit schools to teach children how to identify fake news. The initiative has been designed to tackle false information that the corporation says “threatens fact-based public debate and trust in journalism.” Details of the scheme, which will involve up to 1,000 schools, will be outlined in theÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
March 25, 2018
The UN urgently needs $350m for hungry children in war-torn Yemen - a figure that is "peanuts" compared with what is being spent on deadly weapons in the conflict. The comments by Geert Cappelaere, Middle East and North Africa director at the UN children's fund UNICEF, on Sunday, appeared to mockÃâà...
BBC News
March 25, 2018
At least 37 people are confirmed to have died in a fire that tore through a shopping centre in the Siberian coal-mining city of Kemerovo. At least 64 people are missing, including 41 children, and parts of the building are in danger of collapse. The blaze started on an upper floor of the Winter Cherry complexÃâà...
The Guardian
March 25, 2018
DI Peter Sharp said: “This vehicle was deliberately driven at this group of children and as such we are treating this incident as attempted murder. “Extensive police inquiries are continuing to trace the man driving the car, his male passenger and also the vehicle involved. Officers are following a number ofÃâà...
WLS-TV
March 25, 2018
Child jumps to safety, 2 other children dead in Gary apartment fire ... One child jumped to safety and two others were killed in an apartment fire in Gary Sunday. ... Two other children, a girl, 2, and a boy, 5, were transported to Gary Northlake Hospital, where they were pronounced dead by the Lake CountyÃâà...
BBC News
March 25, 2018
It says that while many children growing up in the North are thriving, there are huge gaps between the poorest children in the North and the poorest in London. It says a child on free school meals (FSM) living in Hackney, east London, is three times more likely to go to university than a child on FSM fromÃâà...
Science Daily
March 24, 2018
These findings indicate that exposures of pregnant women and children to thyroid-disrupting chemicals in the environment pose real risks for child development and health, and underline the need for a more targeted public health intervention strategy. Prof Demeneix continues, "Many experts in the field,Ãâà...
Telegraph.co.uk
March 24, 2018
The vast majority of fruit juices will be banned from advertising aimed at children in a bid to cut down on juvenile obesity, the Government has proposed. Under new rules, 90 per cent of fruit juices on the market will be deemed too sugary to advertise, with only those highest in fibre and “bits” eligible forÃâà...
9news.com.au
March 24, 2018
Two passers-by are being hailed as heroes this evening after saving a child from a fatal house fire in the South Burnett region, west of the Sunshine Coast. Witnesses saw plumes of black smoke spewing from the home on Kingaroy Street in Kingaroy before 1pm AEDT this afternoon. Two people ran to theÃâà...
Telegraph.co.uk
March 24, 2018
It feels wrong, picking the father of our child online, based on badly lit school photos (complete with pudding-bowl haircuts), but we have little else to go on. Turns out, shopping for sperm is like a bad Tinder experience. Neither she nor I felt the urge to have children until we met – despite being in ourÃâà...
The Week Magazine
March 24, 2018
Make sure your child is promptly added to your health insurance, and begin constructing a budget that factors in potential child-care costs, kids' activities, and recurring items such as diapers. The average cost of raising a child in the U.S. to age 17 is $233,610 — a figure that doesn't include college, so yourÃâà...
The Guardian
March 24, 2018
The child I'm funded to work with is using an iPad while they have a break, watching a show aimed at helping children with additional needs develop communication skills. I walk around the classroom supporting others. We're looking at using adjectives in Roman myths. Jenny asks how to spell “tiny”;Ãâà...
SFGate
March 24, 2018
Teenagers bear the brunt of this gun violence: Teens aged 13 through 17 account for nearly 85 percent of child firearm fatalities, the CDC data show. "Firearm homicides among older children were more likely to be precipitated by another crime, to be gang-related, and to have drug involvement," last year'sÃâà...
The Guardian
March 24, 2018
“In the 1950s, you've got the arrival of a whole discourse around child psychology. The DSM [the diagnostic handbook of the American psychiatric profession] was first produced then, and a lot of ideas were coming through, following the second world war and children's experience of the Holocaust.
Splinter (blog)
March 23, 2018
According to the Violence Policy Center—which released a report in 1997 describing Eddie Eagle as “Joe Camel with feathers”—Hammer created the program as a way to deter lawmakers from passing Child Access Prevention (CAP) Laws, which criminalize keeping firearms easily within reach of children.
Telegraph.co.uk
March 22, 2018
"So they know full well that it's a child who's receiving a notification at this point and notifications don't happen in real time - the algorithm keeps them back to know when is a good time to send the notification to suck us back in and to suck our children back in and capture their attention and their data," sheÃâà...
WV News
March 19, 2018
As we near the end of another winter, many parents and children are already beginning to think about summer. Sadly, though, the thought for some parents is: “How will I feed my children?” Childhood hunger is a persistent problem in many parts of rural America. This is especially so during the summerÃâà...
Roanoke Times (blog)
March 19, 2018
Parents of children who habitually lie can breathe a huge sigh of relief — The New York Times says that budding Pinocchios are more intelligent than kids who tell the truth (“Is Your Child Lying to You? That's Good,” Alex Stone, Jan. 5). The Grey Lady's announcement is based on studies done in the 1980sÃâà...
WESH Orlando
March 19, 2018
Child struck, killed crossing Silver Star Road, authorities say. Share. Shares ... A child who was struck by a vehicle in Pine Hills has died, Florida Highway Patrol Public Affairs Officer Kim Montes said. FHP said the ... Authorities said the child was taken to Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children, but later died.
WPLG Local 10
March 19, 2018
OAKLAND PARK, Fla. - A woman and her child were rushed to a hospital after a car veered onto a sidewalk and slammed into a bus stop where the two were waiting. It happened about 2:30 p.m. Sunday along North Andrews Avenue and 39th Street in Oakland Park.
Carroll County Times
March 19, 2018
When a child enters Carroll County's court system, a Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) can be a constant presence in their life that advocates for their interests to the court. Many community members are unaware that this role exists. This is a problem for the program, as the number of children in theÃâà...
The Local Sweden
March 19, 2018
At present there are no national guidelines for how children who disappear during the asylum process should be treated. At the end of 2017 the Ombudsman for Children in Sweden published a report on the matter, and made a number of proposals for how the Swedish government could developÃâà...
Quartz
March 19, 2018
For all the government's efforts to discourage smoking, it remains a common sight across India. What's worse is that the deadly habit can begin incredibly early, affecting children as young as 10 years old. There are over 625,000 Indian children (pdf) aged between 10 and 14 years who smoke cigarettesÃâà...
Stuff.co.nz
March 19, 2018
It is easy to jump to the conclusion that we need to increase the child's fine motor ability. However, before this can happen children need to have strong core and upper body strength. Simply showing children how to hold a pencil and having them practise is not enough, building the strength to hold a pencilÃâà...
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