Child Care

"Even when excused or understandable, absences add up and can greatly impact a child's education." (Janos Vajda/MTI via AP)

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Sorry kids: Here’s why parents need to be more strict about school attendance

Jason Russell · August 24, 2016 4:54 pm

To play, kids simply need to mark off each time their parents buy a healthy food, until they get five across. (Photo by Casey Rodgers/Invision for ALDI/AP Images)

Feds encourage parents to play ‘grocery store bingo’ with kids

Pete Kasperowicz · August 24, 2016 4:22 pm

This was true across several demographic groups, including whites, Hispanics, Republicans and Democrats. (Courtney Sacco/Corpus Christi Caller-Times via AP)

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Why do Americans grade their local schools better than schools nationwide?

Jason Russell · August 23, 2016 6:29 pm

Clinton has boasted about the work she supposedly did as first lady to help create Early Head Start. (AP Photo/Doug Mills)

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Did Clinton really help create the early government preschool program?

Jason Russell · August 18, 2016 5:26 pm

New Jersey may expand infertility coverage to lesbians

Kelly Cohen · August 13, 2016 4:33 pm

Groundbreaking human rights of children bill introduced in Congress

Groundbreaking human rights of children bill introduced in Congress

elizabeth-bartholet and paulo-barrozo · July 16, 2016 4:03 am

Must Reading: The New National Affairs

Jonathan V. Last · July 14, 2016 12:52 pm

"Good Samaritan laws offer legal protection for those who offer assistance in an emergency." (David Spencer/The State Journal-Register via AP)

Feds: ‘Do not think twice’ about breaking into cars to save kids

Pete Kasperowicz · July 5, 2016 9:28 pm

Bills of similar content have been met with mixed success in other state legislatures, and more than 20 states are looking into shared-parenting measures.

Missouri looks to equalize child custody laws

Cassi Pollock · June 27, 2016 4:01 am

The initiative will have KaBOOM! provide play spaces to hospitals across the country. (PRNewsFoto/McDonald's)

VA to make hospitals more kid-friendly

Gabriella Ciuffetelli · June 14, 2016 7:34 pm

She said to suburban Virginia voters, "It's not supposed to be easy, but it shouldn't be this hard." (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Clinton works for suburban voters: Childcare costs are a ‘crisis’

Ariel Cohen · May 20, 2016 7:19 pm

"[M]ale and female restrooms in a public building shall be equipped with baby changing facilities," the bill stated. Those facilities must be "physically safe, sanitary, and appropriate." (iStock photo)

Dems demand baby changing tables in men’s, women’s bathrooms

Pete Kasperowicz · May 12, 2016 7:59 pm