This is the ultimate parent's guide to emergency preparedness for kids. Each of these scenarios should be discussed and every child should know what to do in the event of one of these scenarios.

DIY Family Photos are perfect for families on a budget. These tips and tricks will help you create professional-looking DIY Family Portraits without the high price. Awesome DIY Family Portrait Ideas to try

The sociologist Margaret Hagerman spent two years embedded in upper-middle-class white households, listening in on conversations about race. By Joe Pinsker. (Sept. 4, 2018)

Mama Papa Harus Tahu!

Every so often I’ll get a question around here that makes me feel like it needs more than just a quick answer. Such is the case with an anonymous question I received yesterday that goes a little something like this: …

Providing dignity and basic need support in a Harrisburg area school district.

Vaccination rates appear to have increased following the Federal Government's decision to reduce welfare payments for unvaccinated children. For a month now, families who refuse or delay vaccinations have had their Family Tax Benefit Part A payments reduced by $28 a fortnight for each child. This follows the No Jab, No Play policy that came in to effect in New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria at the end of 2017.

Sweden has seen a rise in reports of child and forced marriages, according to a hotline established by the County Administrative Board in Östergötland County, located in southeastern Sweden. At least 130 phone calls were made in 2018 to a support hotline that seeks to help children and young people who have been forced into marriage. This is a massive increase compared with the 101 calls that were made between 2014 and 2018, according to Swedish public broadcaster SVT.

Those were hard questions.

It doesn’t make you look authoritative. It makes you look out of control to your kids. It makes you look weak.

Smacking is harmful to children's mental health and should be banned, school psychologists say. The Association of Educational Psychologists has tabled a motion to the TUC Conference calling for physical punishment to be outlawed. Presently, although corporal punishment is banned in schools, parents can "smack" or physically chastise a child as long as it is deemed "reasonable".

12 Habits of Parents who Raise A+ Kids (As observed by a High School Teacher)

Existing studies have determined that many factors play a role in how much money a person will make. Some are very obvious, such as education and occupation, while some are less so – taller people earn more, for example. Our study was the first, however, to create a validated rank ordering of these factors (age, occupation, education, geographic location, gender, race, ethnicity, height, age, delay discounting) using machine learning.

Single mums and dads – don’t despair. With a good photo, an honest profile and a dating site subscription you can master the art of single parent dating

China's net giant Tencent is introducing a real-name registration system for one of its popular games.

Pregnant women with high levels of DDT in their blood are more likely to have children who develop autism, according to NIEHS grantees.

In recent years behaviours on university campuses have created widespread unease. Safe spaces, trigger warnings, and speech codes. Demands for speakers to be disinvited. Words construed as violence and liberalism described as ‘white supremacy’. Students walking on eggshells, too scared to speak their minds. Controversial speakers violently rebuked – from conservative provocateurs such as Milo Yiannopoulos to serious sociologists such as Charles Murray, to left-leaning academics such as Bret Weinstein.

Minister for Social Services Dan Tehan says clampdown necessary to protect public health

Machine learning network offers personalized estimates of children’s behavior.

US delegation to the World Health Assembly reportedly deployed threats to try and browbeat nations into backing off the resolution

A US judge extends a deadline for ending the separation of young migrant children and their families.

An aggressive effort by US officials to weaken an international resolution to promote breast-feeding this year is the latest example of the government taking an industry's side in global public health, advocates said.

Dear Single Mama’s, You are the hardest working women in the world, and for that I salute you. And I should know… I was raised by one. One fabulous, beautiful, strong, committed bad-ass single mama.

Apple’s new parental controls cut a teenager’s iPhone use in half. It wasn’t as effective on our personal tech columnist.

Claims parents are unsafe or criminals.

The inspiring story of how a couple adopted six children, including four with special needs. Moli was a college football player when he met Watson in 2012, and he knew he wanted to create a future with her. He soon proposed, and a year later they tied the knot. Dreaming of having children, they decided to try to grow their family beyond the two of them. Unfortunately, that’s when the fairytale began to feel like a nightmare.

New research indicates that the pitch of a baby’s cries at 4 months old may predict the pitch of its speech at age 5.

Here I'm reviewing Stars messaging, which our family has recently started using. It's a phone and tablet app for families and kids who want a way to message each other without requiring a phone number. In other words, it can even work on a tablet with no data plan (so long as there is a Wi-Fi connection). First I'll briefly explain how Stars works, then outline the pros and cons, and then I'll explain why I feel it's a safer fit for kids than other messaging apps on the market. 

Mother Lindsey McIver posted the story on her Facebook page, realizing she might face backlash, but with the hope that others would walk away more educated about home appliance safety. 

Some would say the mistake was having our daughter in the first place. By Roy Scranton.

Radiofrequency electromagnetic fields may have adverse effects on the development of memory performance of specific brain regions exposed during mobile phone use, suggests a recent study involving nearly 700 adolescents in Switzerland.

Women are being harassed and even arrested for making perfectly rational parenting decisions.

Apple founder Steve Jobs’ daughter Lisa Brennan-Jobs tells all in new book

Norway's child protection system, according to the country’s own childcare experts, is “dysfunctional” resulting in children being taken from the parents without adequate justification.

The country needs to convince more couples to have children. But its biggest city is no paradise for parents.