For the second time in less than a year, major advertisers are fleeing YouTube after finding their ads were paired with offensive content — this time, directed at children. And the number of disturbing videos targeted at child audiences is much larger than previously known, YouTube’s response reveals.

Awoken from sleep late one night, Lacey Dunkin received a phone call that would forever change the course of her life. The call was from a social worker asking if Dunkin, of Fresno, California, would be able to accept four girls into emergency foster care. She said yes and within a few hours had a 5-year-old, a pair of 2-year-old twins, and a 1-year-old running around her home in the middle of the night.

Most teenagers, and some kids younger than 10, have smartphones, and the police say that parents should strictly monitor their children’s phone usage for safety risks. “I tell parents it’s my recommendation that they control the passwords to everything on that phone, including the password to the android or Apple phone itself, the password to any emails, the password to any apps,” said Sgt. Kenneth Sanger of the Montgomery County Police Department’s Special Victims Investigations Division.

Surgeons are performing hip replacements on children as young as ten because of the damage caused by obesity, new figures show. In the past three years, the total number of obese people needing joint replacements has risen by almost 60 per cent to more than 37,000. But much of the rise has been driven by young adults and people in middle age who require surgery far earlier than ever before because of the strain on their joints caused by excess weight.

The writers of Eloise, Goodnight Moon and more pushed boundaries of behaviour. Dark episodes in their pasts may have proved fruitful, writes Hephzibah Anderson.

Daughters who grow up with fathers who disappointed them are more likely to interpret the intentions of other men as sexual when they grow up, new research suggests. The study is the latest installment from a team of researchers who have previously studied how fathers impact their daughters’ odds of risky sexual behaviors and the particulars of so called “daddy issues”. But this is the first time scientists have demonstrated that...

Does it ever feel like you spend the entire day in the kitchen? Breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks and desserts in between. Oh, and drinks. Then there’s the cleanup from all this work. There are days when the kitchen is your companion more than your full-time working husband. Today, I didn’t want the kitchen to be my friend. I didn’t want to adult, let alone mother. I was grouchy and sleepy. I was human. And being human, plus trying to mother definitely made getting any writing done quite hard.

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YouTube has been accused of “infrastructural violence” against children due to its role in the creation of vast quantities of low-quality, disturbing content aimed at pre-schoolers. James Bridle, a campaigning technology-focused artist and writer, documented the way the video platform’s algorithmic curation drives enormous amounts of viewers to content made purely to satisfy those algorithms as closely as possible.

As Father's Day approaches, two Helsinki day care centres have decided to rename the paternal celebration to be more inclusive, but some people on social media responded with dismay. A day care chief says their updated curriculum includes an equality policy mandate.

A Michigan couple will go to trial for allegedly refusing to seek treatment for their baby's jaundice symptoms despite a midwife's warnings. Rachel Piland, 30, and Joshua Piland, 36, are charged with involuntary manslaughter in connection with the death of their infant, Abigail, in February, the Lansing State Journal reported. The couple had a duty to seek medical attention after a midwife informed them that their child's symptoms could lead to brain damage or death, said Nicole Matusko, assistant prosecutor in Ingham County.

At least two police departments in Massachusetts are warning parents to inspect their children's Halloween candy for marijuana edibles. But there has never been a recorded case of any one giving cannabis candy -- or razor blade apples, or poisoned Kit Kat bars -- to trick or treaters, according to fact checkers and a University of Delaware professor who studies Halloween poisoning myths.

A devoted mum aged 98 has moved in to a Liverpool care home – to look after her 80-year-old son. Tom Keating became a resident at Moss View care home in Huyton in 2016 because he needed more care and support. And just over a year later his mum Ada decided to move into the same home to help look after her eldest child.

You don’t have to dislike children to see the harms done by having them. There is a moral case against procreation.

Your child’s quirky art isn’t just cute—science suggests that even the most bizarre depictions can have deep creative intention.

It's not easy being an atheist mom. Those open about their non-belief face everything from passive aggression to criticism to blatant harassment. It's surprising that a country founded on the separation of church and state, and one that guarantees its citizens' right to religious freedom, would be so virulently opposed to the irreligious. At a time when moms are under scrutiny for every move they make, it's worth taking the time to try and understand each other.

Some of us dream about having it all—the perfect house, the fancy cars, all of the money we could ever need. And then some of us don’t have to dream: these individuals, instead, do (or at least appear to) have it all. The aforementioned fortunes, the riches, the privilege. What more could they want or need? It may be hard to believe, but this life of privilege isn’t all it’s cracked up to be—at least not for affluent teens.

Parents of children found bullying other minors can now end up in jail, thanks to a recently-passed ordinance in one western New York town. The new law, which went into effect on October 1 in North Tonawanda, New York, states that any parent of a child who violates city law twice within a 90-day period could be fined $250 and sentenced up to 15 days in jail. This includes infractions such as bullying other children and breaking the city's curfew.

There is a growing body of evidence that failing to vaccinate children is actively harmful. And according to the most recent study, an increasing number of measles outbreaks is linked to people leaving themselves or their children unvaccinated...

Emotional labor is the unpaid job men still don't understand. By Gemma Hartley.