A long-running investigation of exceptional children reveals what it takes to produce the scientists who will lead the 21st century

The NSPCC is urging parents to talk to their children about the risks of sharing nude pictures with others. The call comes as new figures show more than 2,000 under-18s have been reported to police over the past three years for crimes linked to indecent images. According to the children's charity, the increase in offences among youngsters may have partly been fuelled by "sexting", where someone sends an explicit photograph of themselves to another person on social media.

A mother is facing charges for leaving her children home alone for 45 minutes while she left to go pick up dinner. Susan Terrillion, 55, was arrested last week after leaving her 8- and 9-year-old kids alone at their vacation rental in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. Police said that they received reports of two children left alone and unsupervised. When they arrived on the scene, a neighbor said the two kids and their dogs ran in front of his car. He stopped to help the children get control of their pets, and that's when he learned that they were alone.

No religion is the new religion. Parents with secular ideas do not force children to follow any specific religion and let them find their own way in life.

Dee Dee Blancharde was a model parent: a tireless single mom taking care of her gravely ill child. But after Dee Dee was killed, it turned out things weren’t as they appeared — and her daughter Gypsy had never been sick at all. For seven years before the murder, Dee Dee and Gypsy Rose Blancharde lived in a small pink bungalow on West Volunteer Way in Springfield, Missouri. Their neighbors liked them. “’Sweet’ is the word I’d use,” a former friend of Dee Dee’s told me not too long ago. Once you met them, people said, they were impossible to forget.

Some of the headlines are alarming but pregnant women and their doctors should not change their current use of paracetamol on the basis of this paper.

Here are some thoughts on age-appropriate starter phones that can meet the needs of parents and kids. We'll look at devices in three different categories: kid-specific phones, basic phones, and smartphones.

July 12, 2016

I met my granddaughter for the first time in a prison visiting room. I’ve been locked up in Maryland’s women’s prison for more than 18 years, since my daughter was 8 years old. In May of last year, she came to visit me carrying her newborn first child. I was overwhelmed with emotion as she placed the baby in my arms. I cried as I held my granddaughter, gave her a bottle and smelled her wonderful baby smell. It was a deeply meaningful moment.

The “tiger mother” thesis is refuted by science

At the altar of motherhood, I have already sacrificed so much. Must I also give up my preferred mode of self-expression?

As many as 77 million newborn babies in the world are not breastfed by their mothers within the first hour of their birth, a new report by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) says. This increases the children's risk to early death as they are deprived of the vital antibodies and nutrients they need. According to the UN agency, newborns that are not nourished through breastfeeding by their mothers within two to 23 hours after their birth are 40 percent more likely to die within the first 28 days of their life.

What’s the most common age of sex-offenders? It’s not a trick question, but unless you follow this stuff closely you’ll almost certainly answer wrong. In fact, most people are shocked to learn that the most common age of people charged with a sex offense isn’t a creepy 39, or 51. It’s 14. That’s right. As the US Bureau of Justice reports: “The single age with the greatest number of offenders from the perspective of law enforcement was age 14.”

Often depicted as being bumbling goofballs or out-of-touch with their families in pop culture, dads actually play a surprisingly important role in the child development from birth through fifth grade, according to new research coming out of Michigan State University. In a pair of recently published studies, one appearing in the journal Early Childhood Research Quarterly and the other in Infant and Child Development, the MSU-led team found that fathers are far more involved in language development and...

Between 2004 and 2013, around 4,500 children under the age of 18 got married in the state of Virginia. Of these girls, more than 200 of them were aged 15 or under. Last week, the authorities in the state introduced new legislation that updated rules that had until then made it legal for girls aged 12 or 13 to get married if they had parental consent and were pregnant. The changes - a move that campaigners said brought Virginia’s laws into the 21st Century - followed a long fight by activists who said the change was aimed at curbing forced marriage, human trafficking and statutory rape disguised as marriage.

A video has gone viral of schoolchildren slowing down to let a disabled classmate win a race. Laurence Clark, a comedian with cerebral palsy, is not sure he wouldn't rather lose.

A stunning verdict in Dallas County Thursday – more than $142 million for parents whose baby died at a Dallas day care. The parents said they know they will never see any of the money, but that’s not important. What is important, is change.

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