An unexplained rise in cases of hepatitis among children around the world in 2022 may be linked to a virus known as AAV2, according to three new studies.
Ontario’s moratorium on youth leaving care once they turn 18 expires on March 31, 2023, with a redesigned policy coming into effect on April 1.
(Shutterstock)
Ontario’s new policy on youth leaving care comes into effect April 1. While the policy provides welcomed support for youth, there are still gaps that need to be addressed.
Proposed UK surrogacy law changes raise concerns over unequal treatment of birth mothers.
Phil Jones/Shutterstock
When we are tired, bored or something is bothering us, children and adults behave worse. All because the brain’s control tower, the prefrontal cortex, is not working at full capacity.
Scabies and other skin diseases are still common in Togo.
Wikimedia Commons/Flickr
While educators in Netflix’s ‘Matilda the Musical’ aren’t meant to be blueprints for contemporary teaching, they suggest the powerful ways attentive adults can make a difference in children’s lives.
Perpetrators often utilize the numerous social media, messaging apps, games and forums available online to initiate contact with potential victims.
(Shutterstock)
The Genocide Convention says the forced transfer of children could constitute genocide if the intent was to destroy a national, ethnic, racial or religious group.
A drag queen reads to a group of parents and kids at a library in Los Angeles in July 2019.
Guy Smallman/Getty Images
A psychologist and parenting expert shares practical tips on how college students who are parents can help both themselves and their children excel in school.
Policymakers need to better consider the needs of all children to ensure that children with disabilities are not left out.
(Shutterstock)
As federal and provincial governments bring in measures to make child care more affordable, the voices and needs of children with disabilities must not be ignored.
All brothers and sisters have tensions or disagreements from time to time as they jockey for position in the family. But when one sibling victimizes another, there can be serious and ongoing harms.
Regular exercise and heathy diets, including low consumption of processed foods, are important to prevent diabetes.
Pexels/Gustavo Fring
For parents, encouraging healthy family diets for children from the time they are babies is one way to keep children’s blood sugar levels in check. The Indonesian government can do more to help too.
Early childhood education isn’t about warehousing children so adults can go to work. There is an ethical imperative to support a paradigm shift in how our society values educating young children.
In practice, adults don’t always value truth above all else.
Ashley Corbin-Teich/Image Source via Getty Images
Kids need to learn when little lies are the right choice. But research suggests parents may not be clear in the messages they send about how they value the truth.
Professor, Canada Research Chair in Determinants of Child Development, Owerko Centre at the Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute, University of Calgary
Assistant professor, School of Psychology, Scientist, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
Paediatrician at the Royal Childrens Hospital and Associate Professor and Clinician Scientist, University of Melbourne and MCRI, Murdoch Children's Research Institute