A measles outbreak in Romania has killed 17 children and infected thousands more since September due to poverty and an anti-vaccination movement.

What would you do if your child was a heroin addict suffering from acute withdrawal symptoms?

Harold pointed out that it’s the five year anniversary of Baby Max’s Mom and Dad!  Congrats sleepless couple!  

Human remains of a significant number of babies and infants up to three years of age have been found on the site of the former mother and baby home in Tuam, Co Galway, it has been confirmed. This follows work by the Commission on Mother and Baby Homes which carried out planned excavations there. Local research records 796 infants and children recorded as having died in the Tuam home run by the Bon Secours Sisters between 1925 and 1961. There is not as yet any indication of exactly how many bodies have been discovered at the site.

Parents are startled by the way artificial intelligence gadgets — Amazon’s Alexa, Google Home, Microsoft’s Cortana — impact their children’s behavior

George Denniston, M.D., M.P.H., president of Doctors Opposing Circumcision, discusses the issue of circumcision and why ethical doctors oppose genital cutting of children.

The Internet is rife with a proliferation of parent bloggers. And I am one of them. Are we oversharing parents?

Recent research suggests that dietary fructose intake may increase serum uric acid concentrations and that both uric acid concentration and fructose consumption may be increased in individuals with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD).

Out of all age groups, children are still most likely to live in poverty, according to new research from the National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. Using the latest available data from the American Community Survey, NCCP researchers found that in 2015, while 30 percent of adults have low incomes, more than 40 percent of all children live in low-income families -- including 5.2 million infants and toddlers under 3. Despite significant gains in household income and reductions in the overall poverty rate in recent years...

A woman whо made millions оut оf соаl mining іnvеѕtmеntѕ іѕ nоw hundreds оf thousands of роundѕ іn debt аftеr she ѕреnt hеr fоrtunе аdорtіng 75 оrрhаnѕ. Lі Lіjuаn hаѕ ѕреnt thе раѕt 19 уеаrѕ using the money she mаdе frоm hеr іnvеѕtmеntѕ in the 1980ѕ tо hоuѕе thе abandoned сhіldrеn. Thе former gаrmеnt buѕіnеѕѕ оwnеr frоm Wu’an Cоuntу, China, adopted hеr first orphan іn 1994 аnd went оn to аdорt dоzеnѕ more whо either lоѕt thеіr parents or wеrе аbаndоnеd bесаuѕе оf іllnеѕѕ оr dіѕаbіlіtіеѕ.

When I was about four years old, I asked my mother one of my first ‘Why?’ questions: ‘Mom, why does Pippo live underwater?’ Mom explained that Pippo, our goldfish, was a fish, and fish live underwater. This answer left me unsatisfied, so I kept en...

Danish authorities have voted in overwhelming favour to scrap women-only swimming sessions used by migrants at a swimming pool. Officials in the city of Aarhus demanded the end of gender-separated sessions at the Gellerupbadet swimming hall saying people need to 'learn to swim together'. Many of the women who use the sessions are Muslim migrants who live on a nearby housing estate.

An Iowa legislative panel has approved a bill that would make it easier for parents to avoid requirements that their children be vaccinated. The subcommittee approved the bill Thursday despite testimony from health care professionals that the move would lower vaccination rates and could ultimately lead to more sick children.

Children with autism may benefit from fecal transplants -- a method of introducing donated healthy microbes into people with gastrointestinal disease to rebalance the gut.

​In Iceland, teenage smoking, drinking and drug use have been radically cut. Why aren't other countries following its lead?

A study of screen time and mental wellbeing among teenagers has suggested moderate use of devices may be beneficial in a connected world. The researchers collected self-reported data from 120,000 English 15-year-olds about their digital device habits. They found a "Goldilocks effect" where a few hours of device-use seemed to boost mental wellbeing.

A philosophy for raising intelligent children!

Minnesota authorities have charged two parents with a gross misdemeanor after they failed to seek medical attention for their dying son, but instead tried to improve his condition with prayer. Timothy and Sarah Johnson were arrested last week for neglect of a child resulting in substantial physical harm. Their seven-year-old adopted son, Seth, died last March after the couple decided to treat him themselves with prayer.

The 'instinctive drowning response' involves very little splashing, no waving, and no yelling or calls for help of any kind.

Hundreds of people have signed a petition calling for justice for a two-year-old who suffocated as he tried to escape from a room in his home that was covered in dirty nappies and animal faeces. Ellyah Elvidge was found with his head lodged in hole cut into a piece of plywood that was serving as a makeshift baby gate at his home in AuSable Fork, New York. His mother Patricia Giddings, 21, and her 24-year-old boyfriend Brandon Bushey, who was not the boy’s father, have been charged with criminally negligent homicide.