An Indiana woman says she was given a citation and a court date after she let her kids play in a creek just a few miles from her house. Blogger and photographer Linda McGurk described a pleasant-sounding Memorial Day vacation with her family, where she, her husband, and two daughters visited

A study says Germany's birth rate has slumped to the lowest in the world, prompting fears labour market shortages will damage the economy. Germany has dropped below Japan to have not just the lowest birth rate across Europe but also globally, according to the report by Germany-based analysts. Its authors warned of the effects of a shrinking working-age population. They said women's participation in the workforce would be key to the country's economic future.

A parent of one of the 20 male students charged in a Cape May County sexting investigation tells Action News the inappropriate pictures were seen as trading cards and the boys are not the only ones to blame.

A Maryland couple investigated for neglect after letting their two young children walk home alone from local parks have been cleared in one of two such cases

A Florida toddler is the focus of an emotionally charged debate over circumcision.

Elon Musk didn't like his kids' school, so he started his own, the inventor and entrepreneur said in an interview on Beijing Television. The school is called Ad Astra — which means "To the stars" — and is small and relatively secretive. It doesn't have its own website or a social media presence. Christina Simon, who writes about private elementary schools in Los Angeles, has done some digging around Ad Astra.

"There is not one type of girl. Every girl’s sense of self, path to it, and how she is supported is unique." - Andrea Bastiani Archibald, Girl Scouts USA

Considering the extent of its (most web-related) censorship efforts, South Korea must consider itself fortunate to be next-door neighbors with North Korea. Any time another censorship effort arrives, all the government has to say is, "Hey, at least we're not as bad as…" while pointing its index fingers in an upward/roughly northerly direction. It blocks sites and web pages with gusto, subverting its own technological superiority by acting as a Puritanical parental figure.

A new survey of 53,000 children across 15 countries reveals that children tend to be happy regardless of the context of their lives. From Nepal to Norway, children between the ages of 10 and 12 say that they are largely satisfied with their lives (pdf). “Children tend to be more optimistic in life,” Elisabeth Backe-Hansen, the Norwegian lead researcher for the Children’s World Survey, told Quartz. Though not surprising, it is reassuring.

Only children have a reputation for being perfectionists and high-achievers, constantly seeking attention and approval from their parents and from others. But children with siblings, too, express unique personality types based on their birth order.

Even as Americans have grown more fixated on childhood safety, kids are participating in risky pastimes in ever greater numbers.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — In the nearly 15 years since Sarah Key-Marer got the chilling news that her 4-year-old daughter had plunged to her death from a sea cliff,

Last year, she boarded a plane with her mother Shanell Mouland. They were on their way home from Disneyland. Her mother decided to position her in the middle

The invaluable yet lowly diaper was first mass-produced in 1887, a rectangle of oft-soiled, washable cotton fabric unimproved for more than 60 years, until a disposable version appeared. Ever since, the cloth diaper has fought a losing battle against its more convenient (and more aggressively marketed) counterpart. By 1990, more than 70 percent of American babies were wearing disposables; today, it’s more than 95 percent.

A United Nations official has revealed that ISIS militants forced a sex slave to undergo surgery to restore her virginity every time she was married to 20 fighters. Zainab Bangura, Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict interviewed dozens of sex slaves on her visits to various refugee camps in Syria, Iraq, Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan. The women had escaped after surviving horrific sexual assaults at the hands of IS fighters.

You deserve recognition for completing the hardest break-up known to the human heart. Whether it was because of an addiction, a compulsive need to put you down, an ex-communication, an inability to give and receive love, or just the turmoil of dealing with a broken woman, you did something that most people regard as taboo. And that takes courage.

Captain's log: eight fifth graders, one adult, one James Cameron movie.

According to a professor at the University of Warwick in England, parents who read to their kids should be thinking about how they’re “unfairly disadvantaging other people’s children” by doing so. In an interview with ABC Radio last week, philosopher and professor Adam Swift said that since “bedtime stories activities . . . do indeed foster and produce . . . [desired] familial relationship goods,” he wouldn’t want to ban them, but that parents who...