When Madison, a Washington DC, sixth grader, was told "somebody special" was going to show up to a community service event at her school, she hoped it would be Beyoncé. Instead, as The Huffington Post ...

A small boy holding a lollipop sits in a car seat in a car, 1960s. Today, a child is involved in a vehicle crash every 33 seconds in the United States. However, when they are, child safety seats ...

It would be difficult to watch “Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV,” a five-part documentary on the Investigation Discovery Network and Max, under any circumstances. Shockers about the widespread ...

Children's Day is a special holiday celebrated in many countries around the world. The idea of Children's Day first came about in the early 20th century. In 1920, Turkey was one of the first countries ...

It’s a universally familiar phrase. Ask any English-speaking adult or child, and they will recognize the label “goody two-shoes” as derogatory shorthand for an insufferable prude—but few remember how ...

When Iman Farajallah was growing up in Gaza, she says she witnessed the first and second intifadas — Palestinian uprisings against Israel's occupation of Gaza and the West Bank — and subsequent wars ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. From The Devil’s Castle: Nazi Eugenics, Euthanasia, and How Psychiatry’s Troubled ...

Children’s Hospital New Orleans opened in March 1955 as the Crippled Children’s Hospital, designed to care for children during the polio epidemic as a rehabilitation facility. With 53 beds, the ...

In the U.S. and all over the world, residential schools, or Indian boarding schools, forcibly fractured Indigenous cultures. The implication that these institutions were just “schools” does little to ...

Children who have an older sibling with autism spectrum disorder (autism) are at greater risk of developmental vulnerabilities if they also have other relatives with neurodevelopmental or psychiatric ...