“The changes to kindergarten make me sick,” a veteran teacher in Arkansas recently admitted to me. “Think about what you did in first grade—that’s what my 5-year-old babies are expected to do.” The difference between first grade and kindergarten may not seem like much, but what I remember about my first-grade experience in the mid-90s doesn’t match the kindergarten she described in her email: three and a half hours of daily...

Where a child is raised has a huge impact on her future. These top 10 cities for children have great schools, safe streets and plenty of fun stuff to do.

There is a reason why Science-Based Medicine comes down so hard on practitioners of alternative medicine. And naturally we are particularly concerned about those who feel that they have the expertise to care for pediatric patient. This case is a perfect example.

The childhood tradition of a bedtime story is in serious peril, as experts warn that parents are not making the time to read to their children at the end of the working day and stop reading to them at too young an age.

Insights from psychology into the origins of extreme ability

Apples beat out bananas and all other contenders as the favorite whole fruit of children in the U.S. The average child in the U.S. eats 10 ounces of fruit each day, researchers say.

Increased pressure on parents in the US corresponds directly with the intensification of wealth concentration.

The nipple police strike again.

There's more than one reason to lock a door.

Richard Cushworth, a missionary in El Salvador, and wife Mercedes Casanellas made a public plea for their baby's return after DNA tests showed the child they cared for since birth was not theirs.

There's something wrong with how we have been taught to raise our children these past 20 or 30 years: thin-skinned, super-sensitive and primed to turn to the authorities—parents, teachers and now deans—anytime they feel the slightest bit uncomfortable or aggrieved.

More than a quarter of parents in a recent poll say they hope their teens who play high school sports will become professional athletes. But sky-high parental expectations can have a dark side.

In this country, we celebrate the First Amendment, which prevents the government from interfering with religious beliefs and practices. But what if those beliefs and practices make children suffer? By Julia Scheeres.

An evolutionary approach may help scientists understand why mothers become genetic chimeras and how that affects their health.

I am named after the daughter my father lost... By Jeannie Vanasco.

This story was reported through the nonprofit investigative news organization ProPublica. The Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism at Columbia University provided support for this project. In the fall of 2003, police in New Jersey received a call from a concerned neighbor who’d found a young man rummaging in her garbage,...

Robbie Tunner was a friendly Sunshine Coast concreter when tragedy plunged him into ice addiction and turned him into a 'withdrawn loner'. He is now fighting the ice epidemic for his son.

Around the time my firstborn was learning to walk, my wife and I tried a tag-team approach to parenting. I'd take most of the early morning shifts and then head to the office. Most evenings, no matter what was happening at work, I'd log back in at home, and my wife would pursue her career as a modern dancer. Our schedules were so distinct that we shared a single unlimited subway pass.

Never trust a six year-old.

When Brian and Caroline Setliff of Raleigh began planning a weekend home on 10 acres of land in Saxapahaw, they knew it would be something small, to fit both their budget and their desire to get their young sons outside as much as possible.