Just weeks after he and his wife decided to change their anti-vaccination views, an Ottawa-area dad says all seven of his kids have become infected with whooping cough. The irony of the timing is not lost on them, says Gavin Hills.

In a rare legal maneuver, an Orange County Superior Court judge today deviated from a mandated 25-year-to-life sentence for a man who sexually assaulted a 3-year-old girl and sent him to prison for 10 years. Kevin Jonas Rojano was convicted Dec. 3 of sodomizing a child younger than 10 and lewd or lascivious acts with a minor. Rojano was playing video games in the garage of his home where he lived in Santa Ana June 4 of last year when a 3-year-old girl who he is related...

There’s awesome dads, and then there’s David Hyche, who went above and beyond in his fatherly duties to make sure his visually impaired daughter, Rachel, could enjoy Easter. Nine years ago Hyche, a 27-year veteran of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) from Birmingham, Alabama, was trying to find ways for then 19-month-old Rachel, who is blind, to enjoy the same egg-hunting activities as her older brother.

I dread April, which has been designated as Autism Awareness Month. As mom to three young women with autism – ages 20, 18 and 14 – I eat, sleep and live autism every day.

A man who was beaten by the father of a child he was caught sexually abusing has been sentenced to 25 years in prison.

Autism Awareness Day? How about Autism Is Here, So Get Used To It Because It’s Not Going Anywhere Day?

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Monkeys can teach us a lot about economics. Their brains and emotions are very similar to ours. As fellow mammals, monkeys and humans both develop strong emotions that govern our lives, our society and our economy. In the early 1990s, a team of psychologists set out to determine how a mother's attentiveness affects her children as they grow up.

Children who play video games for more than three hours a day are more likely to be hyperactive, get involved in fights and not be interested in school, says a new study. It examined the effects of different types of games and time spent playing on children's social and academic behavior.

A Texas mother said a store clerk scolded her after she let her 5-year-old daughter try on a boys suit for Easter.

Schizophrenics, some believe, are simply a “modern manifestation of prehistoric tribal shamans.”

Scotland is to ban smoking in cars with children, bringing it into line with England and Wales, where legislation has been introduced to protect young people from secondhand smoke. The Scottish government announced it would back the smoking prohibition (children in motor vehicles) (Scotland) bill, which has been put forward by the Liberal Democrat MSP Jim Hume.

Dihan’s family is very proud of him. Until just a few months ago, Dihan was smoking up to two packs of cigarettes a day, but he has managed to cut down. “He was sick, he was coughing a lot, and the doctor said he had to quit. He’s been trying hard, and now he just smokes five a day,” said his mother, Sulawati. Dihan is six and has been smoking for years.

HomeWorldDesign has synthesized 10 tips for designing children's rooms. The child's room is very important for his growth, knowing the ...

A new approach uses openness and humor to make “The Talk” less dreadful for parents and children alike.

On her first morning in America, last summer, my daughter went out to explore her new neighborhood — alone, without even telling my wife or me. Of course we were worried; we had just moved from Berlin, and she was just 8. But when she came home, we realized we had no reason to panic. Beaming with pride, she told us and her older sister how she had discovered the little park around the corner, and had made friends with a few local dog owners.

An Alabama jury has convicted a woman of capital murder in the running death of her 9-year-old granddaughter. Joyce Hardin Garrard faces a penalty of death or life without parole for the February 2012 death of 9-year-old Savannah Hardin. Sentencing will be later. Garrard showed no reaction, but some relatives sitting behind her began to cry. Authorities claimed the 49-year-old woman forced the girl to run and carry wood for hours as punishment for a lie about candy.

Police on Friday arrested a 12-year-old Colorado girl accused of trying to kill her mother twice by poisoning her with bleach for taking away her iPhone, authorities said. Boulder County Sheriff's Commander Heidi Prentup said in a statement that the mother drank the caustic fluid on one of the two attempts, which both happened within a week this month. On March 2, the girl poured bleach into a breakfast smoothie that she had prepared for her mother, Prentup said.

Young children—even toddlers—are spending more and more time with digital technology. What will it mean for their development?

Come out with your hams up! The Puerto Rican government is proposing a new law that would label the parents of obese kids as "child abusers." Now, no one is saying that obesity isn't a problem, especially among kids. Obesity rates have doubled worldwide since 1980. The World Health Organization’s most recent numbers show 39 percent of the adult population is overweight, and 13 percent is obese. In Puerto Rico, that combined number is 66 percent.