In 2025, new data show, the volume of child pornography online was likely larger than at any other point in history. A record ...

The CDC never recommended babies get 72 injections . In 2024 and part of 2025, before the Trump administration’s changes, it recommended children up to age 2 get up to 12 different vaccines protecting ...

Many adults are breathing a sigh of relief as the 6-7 meme fades away as one of the biggest kid-led global fads of 2025. In ...

Math anxiety grows from stress, culture, and experience, not ability. By changing how we teach, test, and talk about math, we ...

Playing linear number board games, those where players move pieces along a straight numbered path, can significantly strengthen young children’s math skills, according to a new report  by the HEDCO ...

Americans bought fewer dreams and more appliances in 2025, rewarding brands that delivered reliability, hybrids, and trucks ...

Contributions from friends, family members, and others will be capped annually at $5,000. Employers can contribute up to ...

Federal prosecutions of pedophilia and crimes against children in Hawaii increased by 50% between 2024 and last year, and by ...

The Kids’ Winter Bird Count for children ages 7 to 17 runs from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at the Shoal Creek Conservation Education Center, 201 Riviera Drive in Joplin’s Wildcat Park. Jessie Ballard, ...

PACIFIC GROVE — The Thanksgiving holiday has historically marked the peak sightings of western monarch butterflies on California’s Central Coast. The peak reached 8,000 this year, a fraction of what ...

A new analysis of child well-being in the U.S. Virgin Islands shows that the territory’s young people are growing up amid dramatic population loss, deep economic strain, fragile support systems, and ...

A photograph from the CMCArts exhibition “Bamboula Journeys: Retrospective Indigenous Caribbean Afrakan Arts,” curated by Dr. ChenziRa Davis Kahina, was chosen for the cover of the 2025 Kids Count ...