Children
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World
U.S. Catholic Bishops Apologize for Traumas of Indian Boarding Schools
The bishops acknowledged the church’s role in operating schools where Native American children faced abuses and forced assimilation.
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Health
Guns Often Stored Unsafely in U.S. Homes, C.D.C. Survey Suggests
Loaded guns often are not locked, even in homes where there are children, federal researchers reported.
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World
Why Children Are Missing More School Now
The raw data looks inarguably bad: The share of American children missing at least 10 percent of school days nearly doubled over the course of the pandemic, leaving perhaps more than six million more students “chronically absent” than had been in the ...
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Magazine
Sign Right Here: The Parents Pledging to Keep Kids Phone-Free
By committing not to give their children smartphones until an agreed-upon age, parents are hoping for strength in numbers when schoolyard pressure starts to build.
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World
5 Convicted in Federal Fraud Trial Imperiled by a Gift Bag of Cash
Prosecutors accused the defendants of stealing millions of dollars from programs meant to feed children. A juror was replaced after officials said she was apparently offered a bribe of $120,000 to acquit.
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World
The U.N. is adding Israel and Hamas to list of countries and groups that harm children in conflict zones.
The United Nations will add Israel as well as Hamas to a list of countries and armed groups that harm children when it releases its annual report on children and armed conflict, citing the heavy toll the war in Gaza has taken on minors, including ...
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World
46 Children Were Taken From Ukraine. Many Are Up for Adoption in Russia.
Supported by SKIP ADVERTISEMENTThe Great Read46 Children Were Taken From Ukraine. Many Are Up for Adoption in Russia. As news of Russia’s invasion spread through Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, Dr. Natalia Lukina was waiting for a taxi at her home. It was ...
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Foster Care and Child Welfare
Readers discuss a guest essay about removing children from troubled homes.
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Health
Widening Racial Disparities Underlie Rise in Child Deaths in the U.S.
New research finds that the death rate among Black youths soared by 37 percent, and among Native American youths by 22 percent, between 2014 and 2020, compared with less than 5 percent for white youths.
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World
Homelessness Is Especially Hard on Children. Making Music Helps.
“We’re going to be making a beat,” Dannyele Crawford said as the kids settled noisily into their seats at a homeless shelter in Brooklyn. “I want you to imagine that you live on another planet. The beat is going to be based off that.” Six-year-old ...