Fewer children visited emergency rooms for asthma problems in the three years after cities banned indoor smoking than in the three years before, according to a new study.

Prosecutors say three young children in rural Pennsylvania are lucky to be alive after police recently rescued them from a locked room in their home where they’d allegedly been kept for three months — wasting away — with no heat and little food. “The door to the room was locked from the outside and the paint on the wall was peeled off at the height of the kids,” Dauphin County District Attorney Ed Marsico tells PEOPLE. “We theorize they’d been peeling it off in order to eat it.”

Many parents love sharing photos of their children on social media. But they should stop and think about how it might affect their children, now and in the future.

A grieving mother whose son died only 11 days after birth resolved to donate as much breast milk as she could, which wound up totaling 2,370 ounces. Ariel Matthews gave birth to son Ronan in October and documented his story on Instagram. The posts revealed Matthews had a miscarriage and a stillbirth last year, after which she also donated breast milk.

For the majority of children, in-toe or out-toe walking is just part of growth.

The vast majority of parents of overweight children in England do not recognise the fact, the annual NHS health survey has found, raising fears that high levels of obesity have normalised unhealthy weights. Nine in 10 mothers and eight in 10 fathers of an overweight child described them as being about the right weight. Almost half of mothers (48%) and 43% of fathers said their obese child was about the right weight...

A father’s quest to save his son. By Julie Greicius.

Educators, health care providers and researchers have known for some time that low socioeconomic status is connected to poor health, including in children, but a new study led by a San Francisco State University psychologist has shed light on what can be done to protect young people from negative outcomes. The keys? A more positive parent-child relationship as well as the child’s own ability to manage his or her response to stressful situations, according to research published last month in the journal Psychosomatic Medicine.

As we approach the Christmas buying season, we've provided a list of the top 25 worst (unsafe) toys and children's products of the 2016 holiday season.

Picture this. A couple has been dating for a few months — having a great time drinking, talking, shagging and wandering through each other's worlds. They may have even discussed children, and one or both has made it clear they don't want any. The couple's use of contraception has also made implicit their desire to not become pregnant. But in the spirit of "Q: How do you make God laugh? A. Tell her your plans", suddenly, this hypothetical couple is dealing with an unexpected pregnancy.

Christie Jameson sometimes wonders if the idea to adopt 35 children was planted when she was 12. “He was such a sweet, outgoing brother — everybody loved him,” Jameson, now 73, tells PEOPLE. Over three decades, the Jamesons adopted 35 children in all — 26 of them with special needs.

A massive, collaborative map of the urban harvest uniting the efforts of foragers, freegans, and foresters around the world. Explore and share information about the sources of free food in your neighborhood.

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You need to learn a practical lesson. Grit alone is not going to save you from sinking.

“They are closer to me than my actual children in some ways.” By Jamie Fullerton.

Niki Sawyers describes the disturbing circumstances that occurred shortly after the birth of her son.

Spoiler alert: this article contains sensitive information about the existence of Santa Claus. Children may wish to look away now. Parents, though, are being urged to re-consider the ethics of the great Santa Claus lie. In an article published in the journal Lancet Psychiatry, two psychologists have raised the spectre of children’s moral compass being permanently thrown off-kilter by what is normally considered a magical part of the Christmas tradition.

A child migrant who travelled alone from northern Africa to Italy is to be reunited with her mother after a stroke of luck. Four year-old Oumoh was taken from her father's family in Ivory Coast by her mother, who said she wanted to save her daughter from female genital mutilation. The pair travelled together to Tunis, but were separated when Oumoh's mother left her with a friend while she went back home to collect some belongings.

Trapped in a bad dream.:That’s how 18-year-old Noemi felt when she learned that she had to hand over her baby daughter to the man convicted of assaulting her… By Thom Patterson.

Even though statewide levels of vaccinations remain high, public health officials are increasingly worried about the geographic areas where parents are choosing not to vaccinate their children. By Anna Casey.