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EDITOR'S NOTE — The United Nations adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child 20 years ago Friday, yet hundreds of millions of children still suffer from violence, hunger and disease. Associated Press correspondents around the globe interviewed children who illustrate the remaining challenges, along with some victories. Complete Story...
The parents of an 8-year-old Liberian girl who was allegedly raped by four boys have been arrested on felony child abuse charges.
Arun Kumar was born to disabled parents, beaten by his grandparents, ran away from home, got a job in a garment factory and had all his savings stolen by the police.
Diarrhea doesn't make headlines. Nor does pneumonia. AIDS and malaria tend to get most of the attention.
An Ohio man has been charged with attempted murder after authorities said he put an infant and a toddler in a trash bin.
UNICEF urged the world to help the 1 billion children still deprived of food, shelter, clean water or health care — and the hundreds of millions more threatened by violence — two decades after the U.N. adopted a treaty guaranteeing children's rights.
Pope Benedict XVI called Wednesday for greater international efforts to ensure basic human rights for children, saying he was praying for all young people who suffer.
Federal health experts said Wednesday an updated version of Pfizer's best-selling anti-infection vaccine is safe and effective for infants and toddlers, despite company studies that failed to meet certain goals.
The mother of a 7-year-old Florida girl who was kidnapped and murdered thinks she knows what happened to the little girl who trusted everyone too much, no matter how often she was told about “stranger danger.”
More than half of the world's chronically undernourished children under the age of 5 live in South Asia, according to a U.N. report released Wednesday.
American Christopher Savoie is back on U.S. soil after spending a harrowing 18 days in a Japanese jail for trying to wrest his children away from his ex-wife. But the joy of being reunited with his current wife, Amy, is muted by the heartbreak of having to leave his son and daughter behind.
Susan Boyle’s publicity train is back on track. The Scottish singer is addressing her difficulties with sudden fame before she performs on “Dancing With The Stars” in Los Angeles later this week.
Nearly half of all U.S. children and 90 percent of black youngsters will be on food stamps at some point during childhood, and fallout from the current recession could push those numbers even higher, researchers say.
To those who found Adam Lambert’s upcoming album cover to be a tacky mash-up of twinkling fonts, outdated inspiration and retouching gone wrong, the “American Idol” runner-up wants to make one thing perfectly clear: he meant to do that.
Mention swine flu to a young child, and odds are pretty good you'll get a blank stare.
Police in China have created a Web site with photos of 60 rescued kidnap victims, mostly boys and many of them infants, in a bid to track down their families.
Hulk Hogan, as big a star as professional wrestling had ever spawned, had reached the end. For days he sat in his empty mansion, mixing rum and Xanax, shattered by an impending divorce and a family tragedy, holding a gun to his head and thinking about how little force it would take to pull the trigger and end it all.
As is to be expected, the grief-filled months since Michael Jackson’s sudden death have been difficult for his three young children, but one them is said to be coping much better than the others.
The mother of the Florida girl who was abducted, murdered and dumped in the trash broke down as she talked about how she tried to teach her 7-year-old to beware of strangers. But, she said Friday, “I feel like I failed.”
All parents want to keep their children safe. In the wake of the death of Somer Thompson, the 7-year-old Florida girl who vanished Monday on her mile-long walk home from school, many moms and dads are feeling more anxious than ever about how to protect their kids.
Two Ohio teenagers forced to sleep in cages have sued their adoptive parents and caseworkers who arranged the adoptions.
Booksellers, video game dealers, newspaper publishers and other critics of an online child protection law encountered skepticism from state Supreme Court justices Tuesday for their free-speech arguments.
A Los Angeles woman accused of shooting her young sons, killing one and critically wounding the other, has been charged with murder.
A woman shot her two young sons Saturday, killing a 5-year-old boy and critically wounding his 1-year-old brother, police said.
A Louisiana couple admitted giving an exotic bird to a woman in exchange for two children, a district attorney said Wednesday.
Car strikes crowd outside Ala. school; 1 killed Police said a woman died after being struck along with nine children by a car outside an Alabama middle school.
BBC News - Charity EveryChild issues warning on separated childrenThe number of children around the world living without any parents or separated from their families has increased to 24 million with a third of them placed in orphanages, a leading British charity dealing with children's rights has warned.
Unicef's state of the world's children report 2009: Where is the worst place in the world to grow up? Unicef's 2009 state of the world's children report tells us what it's like to grow up in the poorest - and richest - places in the world. Find out which is which• Get the data
Comprehensive health data on California kids available at your fingertipsKidsdata.org recently expanded to offer data for all cities, school districts, and counties in California. These statewide data are available for a wide range of topics measuring the health and well being of children, and more data will be phased in throughout 2010.
Canadian parents win legal battle against homeworkLawyer-Parents fight for their Children. The basic story is that these parents saw no correlation between grades and homework, so they pressed charges against the school to stop the school from assigning and grading "useless" homework.
British NHS Promotes pharma to children Britain's National Health Service is losing a fight against the Bonkers Institute for Nearly Genuine Research — a web site that publicizes the underbelly of psychiatric medicine — over brochures for children that tell them how to take antipsychotic medicines such as Johnson …
Police: Boy Asleep At Time Of Physician Father's AttackNICHOLS HILLS, Okla. -- A 9-year-old boy stabbed to death by his physician father early Monday was initially asleep at the time of the attack, Nichols Hills police believe.
Sex Scare Causes Children Who Write To Father Christmas Expecting A Reply To Be Left Disappointed Thousands of children worldwide who write to Father Christmas expecting a reply may be left disappointed - because of a scare over a sex offender.
New "Don't Label Me" Billboard Campaign in the UKThe groups that brought you the "classlc" atheist bus ads are back with a billboard message that is sure to spark some great discussions:
Torture (i.e. Tasering) for TantrumsI am very much against tasering, but I honestly believe that any mother who tells a policeman to taser her child should be tasered first, just so she knows what she's asking them to do.
10 yr old Arkansas Girl Tasered with Mother's Permission10 yr old Girl Tasered for not Going to Bed & Being Unruly
Social networking sites criticised for failing to protect childrenThe head of a government body responsible for keeping children safe has criticised social networking sites for not doing enough to protect youngsters.
Councils 'lost' 145 child asylum seekers last year, Care Leavers' Association reportsAlmost 150 children and young people went missing without trace from local authority care homes last year, according to returns from local councils. Most were juvenile asylum seekers who had arrived in the UK alone.
Girl bullies guilty of fall deathwo teenage girls have been found guilty of causing the death of a vicar's daughter who jumped from a window in south-east London. Kemi Ajose, 19, and Hatice Can, 15, were found guilty of the manslaughter of 19-year-old Rosimeiri Boxall.
Obama-Nation 101: Instilling Guilt in American ChildrenDimwitted guardians of our children don't understand the most basic concept of democracy and free speech.
I'm going to tell my son the worst swearword in the world...I feel clammy and hemmed in. "And you won't tell Mum we had this conversation?" I say. "I promise," says Joel. "Mum will never know." There's a silence. "I can't tell you," I say. "Tell me," says Joel. "I can't," I say.
Four killed in car-train crash in S.C.Four people, including a 12-year-old, died when an Amtrak train hit their car in Hardeeville, South Carolina, an official said Tuesday.
Blueberry Grower Shunned Over Child Labor ChargesWal-Mart and two other top retailers said Friday they are suspending business with a large southwestern Michigan blueberry grower after investigators found children as young as 6 working in the grower's fields.
EDITORIAL: Brass attacks - Consumer 'safety' law strikes bad notesSeventy-six trombones left the big charade. A thousand and 10 store debts are close at hand. There are zippers, keys - so many amenities - all outlawed because Congress is blind.
Hunger 'kills 17,000 children per day'Somewhere in the world, a child dies of hunger every five seconds -- even though the planet has more than enough food for all. Ban Ki-moon, the U.N. secretary-general, . "Today, more than 1 billion people are hungry," he told the assembled leaders.
Conjoined Twins Trishna, Krishna Separated Separation SurgerySurgeons have separated conjoined twins Krishna and Trishna in a marathon operation at Melbourne's Royal Children's Hospital.
Couple 'posted boy's sex assault on internet'A Sydney couple will face court today, accused of sexually assaulting a nine-year-old boy and posting images of the alleged attack on the internet.
Boy, 11, Kills Bear That Wouldn't Leave Family's Porch - Local News | News Articles | National News | US News - FOXNews.comThe boy was at his home near Driggs, just west of the Idaho-Wyoming border, with his younger sisters last Wednesday when the bear showed up. He says he couldn't shoo the animal away, so he went and got a gun and shot it.
Potential for criminal behavior evident at age 3NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Children who don't show normal fear responses to loud, unpleasant sounds at the age of 3 may be more likely to commit crimes as adults, according to a new study.
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