Child Care

Eight children are killed or maimed every day in Yemen as a result of the conflict, and leaders' lack of regard for civilians' lives, according to a new United Nations Children's Fund report. (AP Photo)

National Security

UN officials detail ‘incomprehensible’ suffering in Yemen

Barbara Boland · August 20, 2015 1:12 pm

Federal regulators have approved a kid-sized version of popular painkiller OxyContin. (AP Photo)

FDA approves painkiller OxyContin for kids

Robert King · August 14, 2015 2:43 pm

The cast of the 2009 Broadway production of "HAIR: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical", performing "Aquarius". (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Is America entering a new Victorian Era?

Michael Barone · July 27, 2015 4:01 am

A girl peers from under a curtain before the start of a performance coordinated by US Battery Dance Company to mark World Down Syndrome Day in Bucharest, Romania, Thursday, March 2013. The U.S. company helped create dance performances for groups of children with disabilities, young ethnic Roma children and youngsters who aspire to become dancers. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Beltway Confidential

You won’t believe the gift this couple gave their daughter with Down syndrome

Emily Leayman · June 25, 2015 6:51 pm

Father and son watch batting practice before during a baseball between Washington Nationals and the Atlanta Braves at Nationals Park on April 5, 2014 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Mitchell Layton/Getty Images)

Celebrate Father’s Day with shared parenting

Christian Paasch · June 21, 2015 9:00 am

Children walk into an East Harlem public housing complex on May 19, 2015 in New York City. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Beltway Confidential

Schools can’t fix everything about poverty

Jason Russell · June 17, 2015 8:50 pm

The debate over what is an acceptable amount of parental supervision has become a nationwide issue. (AP Photo)Â

What is an acceptable level of parental supervision?

Elizabeth Potter · June 11, 2015 11:19 pm

Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah. is surrounded by reporters as he walks to a luncheon with other Senate Republicans on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, May 22, 2015. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

GOP hoping to kill Obama rule that lets parents skip child support payments

Pete Kasperowicz · June 11, 2015 7:53 pm

Pasha (left) from the city of Baranovichi and Vova (right) Kazakhstan walk down the hallway of the Children's Oncology Center on March 13, 2006 in Minsk, Belarus. (Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images)

Why childhood cancer research gets shortchanged

Kristin Connor · May 25, 2015 9:00 am

Peggy McMartin Buckey, a defendant along with her son, Raymond Buckey, in the long-delayed McMartin Pre-school molestation trial, is escorted by two unidentified men, as she departs Los Angeles Criminal Courts courtroom after opening statements by the prosecution were completed in this July 13, 1987 photo. Buckey, acquitted in the nation's most protracted criminal molestation case targeting her family's Manhattan Beach preschool, died Friday morning, Dec. 15, 2000 in Torrance, Calif. She was 74(AP Photo/ Lennox McLendon)

Beltway Confidential

Couple convicted of child abuse during satanic childcare hysteria still not exonerated

Ashe Schow · May 22, 2015 2:32 pm

The United States gives foreign assistance to almost every country in Asia, Africa and Central and South America. (iStock)

To scrap or fix foreign aid?

Washington Examiner Staff · April 27, 2015 9:00 am

Evelyn Williams, right, a teacher in a pre-Kindergarten class at the Community Day Center for Children in Seattle, gives Jiren Oliver, 4, a high-five after they played a game of tic-tac-toe. (AP Photo)Â

Beltway Confidential

Conservative alternatives to government-provided preschool

Jason Russell · April 24, 2015 6:09 pm