When I took my 3-year-old to see ‘Up,” we hardly made it past the previews. I know, it was a bit daring because she’s only 3, but her older sisters really wanted to go and she wanted to be included. Once we’d sat about the length of a “Dora” episode, she was too restless to [...]

A new national survey shows that there has been a sharp drop in children’s bullying in the last five years. Experts believe that anti-bullying programs are having an impact.
The study, published this week in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, showed that the percentage of children who reported being bullied went from 22 percent [...]

New research suggests that even before they’re born, minority children face many obesity risks. One study concluded that cultural customs, beliefs and family income are all factors which contribute to obesity. The other study showed that obese children exhibit signs of inflammation at a very young age.The two studies were published in the Journal [...]

An Illinois court is weighing a divorce case in which the parents are at odds with their daughter’s religious upbringing. There is obviously a lack of consensus between the two, and the case raises the question of whether a court can make such a personal decision and essentially determine the child’s religious upbringing.
The case involves [...]