U.S. children whose parents divorce when they are age 5 or younger have reduced earnings as adults and increased chances by young adulthood of teen pregnancy, incarceration and death, according to a ...
Child health Protecting and improving the health of children is of fundamental importance. Over the past several decades, we have seen dramatic progress in improving the health and reducing the mortality rate of young children. Among other encouraging statistics, the number of children dying before the age of 5 was halved from 2000 to 2017, and more mothers and children are surviving today ...
As the world marks World Children’s Day, the World Health Organization (WHO) is calling for decisive, accelerated action to uphold the rights of every child, regardless of nationality, community, or circumstance, to health, protection and life-saving care. Every child has the right to health, protection, education, life-saving care, and to have their voice heard. Yet millions of children and ...
Healthy food in schools can help children develop healthy dietary habits for life, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), which released a new global guideline on evidence-based policies and interventions to create healthy school food environments.
Parents who act like authoritarians set rigid rules and enforce strict discipline. Learn how this controversial style of parenting affects kids.
“Because I said so!” was once a common parenting refrain, so much so that there’s even a movie starring Diane Keaton and Mandy Moore named just that. While new parents today may rarely utter this ...