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The Way Mothers Interact With Babies In First Year Predicts Child Behavior To Age 13

The way mothers interact with their babies in the first year of life is strongly related to how children behave later on. Both a mother's parenting style and an infant's temperament reliably predict challenging behavior in later childhood, according to Benjamin Lahey and his team from the University of Chicago in the US.

Advocacy Project - Wastepicker Children Face Discrimination

Wastepickers scour through open trash bins for recyclable paper, metals, glass and plastics, which they then sell. According to Chintan, they account for almost 1 percent of Delhi's population and handle about 20 percent of the city's waste. They earn, on average, one or two dollars a day.

Children's Memory May Be More Reliable Than Adults' In Court Cases

The U.S. legal system has long assumed that all testimony is not equally credible, that some witnesses are more reliable than others. In tough cases with child witnesses, it assumes adult witnesses to be more reliable. But what if the legal system had it wrong?

More Tests Please

No Child Left Behind has created the wrong kind of debate about testing. Given the lack of new funding, many states are jiggering their tests to obscure the failure of poorly performing schools and undermining the accountability that was the core goal of the program. Others are attempting to opt out of the program altogether. The process is wasteful, confusing to students, and fails to produce the information that education enterprises badly need to ensure continuous improvement in what they do

Child welfare spokesman charged with porn - UPI.com

TALLAHASSEE, Fla., Feb. 13 (UPI) -- A former Florida child welfare agency spokesman facing pornography charges allegedly held drinking parties for boys he photographed naked, it was reported.

The Province: Babies being used to smuggle drugs into B.C. prisons, warns guard

Children are increasingly being used as tiny drug mules as they accompany parents on jail visits, according to the Union of Canadian Correctional Officers.

The Secret to Raising Smart Kids

Mastery-oriented children think intelligence is malleable and can be developed through education and hard work. Challenges are energizing rather than intimidating offering opportunities to learn.

Drilling for Dollars - Dentists at Small Smiles

Small Smiles, A National Chain of Clinics, Exclusively Treats Medicaid Children. But How the Young Patients are Treated is Raising an Outcry.

None Dare Call It Child Care

Right now, the only parents who routinely get serious child-care assistance from the government are extremely poor mothers in welfare-to-work programs. Even for them, the waiting lists tend to be ridiculously long. In many states, once the woman actually gets a job, she loses the day care. Middle-class families get zip, even though a decent private child care program costs $12,000 a year in some parts of the country.

17 Babies, 5 Adults Infected with HIV

BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan -- Seventeen babies and five adults have contracted HIV through infected blood transfusions in Kyrgyzstan, a senior health official said Friday.

Congo: Child trafficking on the rise

Hundreds of children trafficked into the Congo, lured by false promises of jobs or visas. Children as young as 9 yrs old are forced into labor or prostitution. Child exploitation is rapidly spreading.

Northern Uganda improving but still faces problems � UN humanitarian chief

'Triple effort' called for from humanitarians to bring Ugandan citizens home

Uganda: Child Soldiers Fight for Fresh Start - Newsweek

Newsweek features child soldiers in Uganda

Iraqi infant mortality soars to 150 percent--a damning revelation of US war crimes

The infant mortality rate in Iraq has increased by a shocking 150 percent since 1990 the highest such increase recorded for any country in the world according to an annual report issued by the child advocacy group, Save the Children.

The Struggling Children of Iraq

Many have lost their families to the violence and are forced to live on the streets in the midst of a war, surviving by living in dumps and eating whatever scraps they can find.