The quality of one’s childhood has an overwhelming effect on the course of adult life. It’s good to be fully aware of this – and plan accordingly.

The parents of a 2-year-old Dearborn girl who drowned in a swimming pool are behind bars on criminal charges. The Wayne County Prosecutor’s office said James Johnson III and Amber Johnson are charged with second-degree murder, involuntary manslaughter and second-degree child abuse. The parents, who were said to have been asleep when the incident happened, were each ordered held on a $1 million bond at an arraignment Friday before Judge Sam Salamey.

My son was seven when a pediatrician diagnosed him on the autism scale – but really, we had known for years. There was his limited vocabulary – a handful of words by the time he was three, and a habit of mixing up letters or relying on stock sentences. He found it hard to get on with other children at his nursery, and later, when he went to a much bigger school, it was obvious the experience was terrifyingly loud, hectic and incomprehensible to him. Meanwhile, if there was something he was interested in, whether it was Peppa Pig or Superman, he would...

The same technology that's used to reunite missing pets with their families could be used in children, according to an NBC report. But is this too "Big Brother" for most parents?

The 7-year-old Japanese boy who went missing nearly a week ago after his parents left him in a forest as punishment was found Friday, apparently unharmed, police said, in a case that had set off a nationwide debate about parental disciplining.

Good sex ed doesn't lead to early sex, teenage pregnancy and STIs. It protects against them. Young people have the right to information about sexuality. Without it, they’re vulnerable to coercion, unintended pregnancy and STI transmission.

A British paedophile who wrote a manual on how to abuse children and sold videos of himself raping children and babies online is facing as many as 22 life sentences after admitting an unprecedented number of child sex offences. Richard Huckle, 30 from Ashford in Kent, pleaded guilty to 71 offences including rape, sexual assault and grooming following an nine-year campaign of abuse against children in Malaysia.

When the nurse first told me, mid-labor, that there were methamphetamines in my system, I cracked up laughing at the absurdity. When child services showed up, it stopped being funny. By Maggie Downs.

Ask any conservative Christian and they’ll tell you: Of course we don’t abuse children. We’re opposed to abuse. We use loving biblical correction, which is quite different. Those interested in ending violence against children have therefore been very interested in the results of a recent study which, after analysing 50 years’ worth of data, concluded that ‘mild spanking’ and physical abuse have basically the same effects...

To have sound levels of self-esteem is one of the gateways to happiness. But achieving this has very little to do with the progress of our careers.

If you were asked whether you’d prefer to be given $140 today or $1400 in five years' time, the smart answer is obvious. But immediate cash can be really tempting: perhaps you have expensive car repairs looming or you want to buy a gift for someone—that $140 would do the trick. It can be easy to justify cheating your future self out of $1260 in the face of instant gratification. The tendency to ignore or discount the value of a future benefit is called "time discounting." Plenty of research suggests...

For the first 14 and a half years of Gordy’s life, Evan and Dara Baylinson had no reason to think their son could comprehend anything they said.

**Submitter's Note: browse this site in Privacy/Incognito mode.** Judged by what we actually do — or, more accurately, don’t do — to help small children and their parents, America is unique among advanced countries in its utter indifference to the lives of its youngest citizens.

New Delhi (AFP) - Doctors in India on Wednesday raised ethical and health concerns after a woman gave birth to her first child in her 70s, following two years of IVF treatment.

Louis has learned the value of putting down his phone and actually paying attention to his kids.

Cops said it could take months to build a case against Brandon Moore’s friend for sexually abusing his daughter. The retired Marine took the law into his own hands. Brandon Moore rushed to the hospital with what doctors thought was a brain aneurysm. Brandon’s wife, Leone, went with him to the emergency room, leaving their three children at home in Lorena, Texas. When she texted a group of friends to say Brandon was in the ER, one replied to ask if he could check on the kids.

A new medical journal report highlights the potential dangers of herbal supplements.

This past week, a Milwaukee toddler fatally shot his mother after finding a handgun in the back seat of the car they were riding in. The case drew a lot of national attention given the unusual circumstances: Little kids rarely kill people, intentionally or not. But this type of thing happens more often than you might think. Since April 20, there have been at least seven instances in which a one- , two- or three-year-old shot themselves or somebody else in the United States...

Police in one small Wisconsin city are going to new lengths to prevent bullying: fining parents if their child is caught picking on others. The new ordinance in Shawano means parents of children acting as “bullies” could be fined hundreds of dollars if they don’t intervene, according to NBC affiliate NBC26 in Green Bay.

If you think that the answer to an unruly child is a good spanking, think again, say researchers from the Universities of Texas and Michigan, who after extensive analysis found that this form of punishment only makes youngsters more likely to be defiant and aggressive.