Latest Children News
Border apprehensions surge by 45% amid education cuts for migrant children
The United States experienced a surge of apprehensions at the Southwest border in the month of May, detaining more than 144000 people.
Updated: 06/05/2019 05:39P
Migrant Children May Lose School, Sports and Legal Aid as Shelters Swell
The Trump administration said Wednesday that it would begin restricting or canceling education, legal aid and playground recreation for migrant children ...
Updated: 06/05/2019 05:17P
Economic downturns may affect children's mental health
Research linking economic conditions and health often does not consider children's mental health problems. In a new study, investigators found that US ...
Updated: 06/05/2019 02:10P
Pacific neighbors say man attacked them, threatened children
Police are investigating and searching for a man after neighbors said he attacked several people in their Pacific, Washington neighborhood and threatened ...
Updated: 06/05/2019 02:11A
Dozens of migrant children waiting to be reunited with their parents were left in vans for hours, many overnight
- Thirty-seven migrant children between the ages of five and 12 stayed in vans for hours — many overnight — last summer, while authorities struggled to reunite them with their parents, NBC News reported Monday. - The incident occurred at the height of the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" policy, which separated thousands of children from their parents. - According to NBC News, it took 39 hours before the last child was removed from a van and reunited with a parent. - An ICE spokesman told the network that since that incident, "no child has spent more than a few hours waiting to be re...
Updated: 06/04/2019 09:25P
Three children from Ohio drown in pools; lifeguards issue safety reminders
CINCINNATI, Ohio (WSAZ/AP) -- Swimming pools are open all across the region. In the wake of three children from Ohio drowning over the weekend, pool safety ...
Updated: 06/04/2019 06:38P
15 arrested for crimes against children in 'Operation Safe Summer'
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement, Charlotte, Collier, and Lee county sheriff's offices, Cape Coral and Fort Myers police departments, and Homeland ...
Updated: 06/04/2019 01:53P
Trump's children make play for royal treatment
At a grand banquet table in a red-carpeted Buckingham Palace ballroom, the Queen, a couple of princes, dukes and duchesses, and lords and ladies were ...
Updated: 06/04/2019 10:38A
Stop The War On Children
On June 4, the UN marks the International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression. The aim of the day is to “acknowledge the pain suffered by children throughout the world who are the victims of physical, mental and emotional abuse.” The day was established by the UN General Assembly in 1982 in response to “the great number of innocent Palestinian and Lebanese children victims of Israel’s acts of aggression.” Despite the great ambitions behind the day, in the four decades that have followed, the situation faced by children in conflict has only deteriorated. Children sit in shadow ins...
Updated: 06/03/2019 04:10P
FBI warns parents 'sextortion' cases involving children on the rise
As the school year across the country winds down, the threat of online predators is on the increase, the FBI said. Specifically, the FBI warns parents that they are ...
Updated: 06/03/2019 03:41P
