Yeah, teach your kids not to clean fidget parts in their mouth.

The boy was only two days old when his mother slipped out of the hospital. Hours later, he shuddered and convulsed, his body going into withdrawal from the opioids he had grown used to in her womb.

While dining at a Philadelphia tearoom owned by her friend John Wanamaker, Anna Jarvis ordered a salad — then dumped it on the floor.

On Saturday, The New York Times ran a thoughtful piece by Jan Hoffman about whether kids can walk to school by themselves. In the US, just 13% of kids are walking or biking to school, down from 41% in 1969. (That drop, as steep as it is, is nothing compared to what's happened in the UK: Gill Valentine found that, in 1971, 80% of British children were responsible for getting themselves to school. By 1990, that figure was just 9%.)

“13 Reasons Why,” the wildly popular but controversial Netflix show about teen suicide, has touched off a debate among mental health professionals and advocates about media portrayals of suicide and what might be considered “triggering” for teen viewers. And a new study shows that those fears are justified. According to data collected from 32 children’s hospitals across the country, the number of children and teenagers with thoughts of suicide and self-harm being admitted to hospitals is more than two times that of 2008.

We follow a mother’s love through the stages of life to seek wisdom about what love is, what love does, and why love happens. We follow five mothers at five different stages of motherhood...

Especially not with the way it happened. By Royce Young.

As most people know, babies who are breastfed from birth enjoy a wide range of benefits. Here's what the United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef), a global organization with nearly $5 billion of funding, has to say on the topic of...

On becoming a stepmother. By Leslie Jamison.

Four-year-old Awra Ali was nearly blinded in a U.S.-led coalition strike in Mosul. She’s among the unprecedented number of civilians harmed in strikes in March. By Anna Lekas Miller. (Apr. 16 2017)

The clinic must pay the parents' child support not only because they made a terrible medical mistake, but because the child didn't wind up with the right genes. But isn't that just what can happen to parents who make a mistake in bed?

Daniel Martínez Lara and Rafa Cano Méndez

One of the biggest problems associated with child abuse at daycare is that far too many people overlook the warning signs and fail to report their suspicions. Sometimes this is because people don’t want to get involved (even though most states allow you to remain anonymous), but in other cases, it’s simply because they don’t know how to go about properly making the initial report. To help with this, we’ve taken the liberty of providing accurate information on how exactly to report child abuse and daycare licensing violations in all 50 states (plus DC).

THERE’S a growing movement of men in Australia called “Men Going Their Own Way” (MGTOW). It’s an offshoot of the men’s rights movement but rather than getting stuck in and tackling issues, these guys have vowed to stay away from women, stop dating and not have children. “Essentially, MGTOW is a statement about living life your way rather than trying to make a woman happy or being a slave to cultural expectations,” one NSW member says.

A new US program is giving out cardboard bassinets to new mothers to encourage safe sleeping. Jernica Quiñones, a mother of five, was the first parent in New Jersey to get her free baby box — a portable, low-tech bassinet made of laminated cardboard. But first, she had to take an online course about safe sleeping practices, which experts say can sharply reduce the chances of sudden infant death syndrome. “Basically, you want to have the baby on the mattress, and that’s it,” she said after watching a 20-minute series of videos. The message may not be new. But health officials say it is critical to keeping babies safe.

A man and woman charged in the beating death of their 2-year-old girl were found guilty of manslaughter on Wednesday, but were cleared of murder. The two defendants, Jorge Orozco and Raquel Ramirez, were charged in the February 2014 death of their daughter Dayana Orozco, who suffered six broken ribs and serve injuries to her lungs, liver and one kidney, according to evidence presented during the trial.

Police arrested a Florida woman Monday after a toddler allegedly fired the woman’s loaded handgun inside her parked car, shattering a window. Abbie Maldonado, 30, left the 3-year-old in the back of the vehicle outside the Good Shepherd Academy, an elementary school in Deltona, so she could pick up son, according to authorities.

A day in the life of the singer-songwriter following the death of his wife, Geneviève. By Jayson Greene.

Comedy duo produce spoof in which a female interviewee feeds her child, cleans a toilet, cooks dinner and defuses a bomb

On the interminable two weeks between a bad sonogram and the end of a pregnancy. By Jessica Grose.