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"Then my baby started crying so I reached for my son, and as I'm reaching, a man held me and told me, 'Don't touch him. He's getting taken away from you,'" said the children's mother.
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Youth employment is a recognized path to greater prosperity.
In just two weeks, he has learned to hunt and survive. There's a lesson there.
Yes, even children should have access to an attorney.
The trade association says the overbroad and vague A.B. 2273 places unconstitutional burdens on speech.
"Lifetime registries are wrong," said the plaintiff's attorney. "They're wrong based on the science and they're wrong based on the reality that risk is not static. It is dynamic."
Politicians say they want to subsidize various industries, but they sabotage themselves by weighing the policies down with rules that have nothing to do with the plans.
Bradley Bass' case in Colorado says a lot about just how powerful prosecutors are.
Congress’ Joint Committee on Taxation reported that a permanent expansion would cost more than $1.4 trillion over a decade.
It’s already illegal to expose minors to obscenity, so what is this bill really for?
When society criminalizes outdoor independence, it makes smart phone addiction more likely.
Politicians' go-to fixes like child tax credits and federal paid leave are known for creating disincentives to work without much impact on fertility.
Let Augustus Gloop be fat.
"More money can help schools succeed, but not if they fritter those extra resources in unproductive ways," says one researcher.
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Legislators will increasingly argue over how to spend a diminishing discretionary budget while overall spending simultaneously explodes.
During the State of the Union, Biden claimed that "children who go to preschool are nearly 50 percent more likely to finish high school and go on to earn a two- or four-year degree," but evidence in favor of universal pre-k programs is lacking.
According to the suit, the officer "acted with malice or in reckless disregard of Jane Doe's federally protected rights."
Normal human interaction should not automatically be considered creepy or criminal.
"The COVID-19 learning deficit is likely to affect children's life chances through their education and labour market prospects," the analysis' authors argue.
"When you have technology designed by humans, the bias is going to show up in the algorithms," said one former child welfare worker.
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Gov. Spencer Cox signed legislation that will provide scholarships to K-12 students who choose nonpublic education.
"I have never felt threatened by a single person in this town until meeting those officers and the social worker."
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Despite an apocalyptic media narrative, the modern era has brought much longer lives and the greatest decline in poverty ever.
"Sometimes I even feel like they wanted me in there, because I was in there so long," said one 18-year-old who was wrongfully incarcerated for 166 days.
Virginia’s children’s privacy proposal leaves businesses wondering how they can comply.
Eliminating privacy in schools would be a disaster for academic freedom and social development.
An op-ed in The New York Times tries to make the case that the Chinese Communist Party is a worthy partner in raising children.
Tech firm operators may face criminal charges if children who use their platforms encounter too much “harmful content.”
"They couldn't keep him alive for two weeks," says the boy's father. "That's absolutely insane."
Reading and math scores declined between 2020 to 2022, reversing two decades of improvement.
The social changes that paved the way for gay and trans acceptance have made pedophile acceptance less likely, not more.
"My daughter rushed to the car and she's like, 'mommy DCFS came to the school, and the lady made it sound like we weren't going to come home with you today,'" Tresa Razaaq told a local news station.
Data show Florida and New York had similar death numbers despite vastly different approaches.
It's hard to believe its arguments will hold up in court.
For 25 years, the law has been giving states kickbacks when they finalize adoptions quickly.
"She is way too young to be walking this distance by herself," said the cops.
When I was young, I assumed government would lift people out of poverty. But those policies often do more harm than good.
Overbearing CDC guidance, pointless calls to the police, and more.
A slew of recent research suggests parents should relax a bit about screen time.