Oct 6 (Reuters) - Thousands of children in the United States now openly identify as a gender different from the one they were assigned at birth, their numbers surging amid growing recognition of ...

Children in Haiti are being pushed to join armed groups amid horrific violence, poverty and a breakdown in the systems that should protect them. UNICEF is calling for more international support to ...

A new UNICEF Child Alert signals urgent and growing needs of children migrating across the Latin America and Caribbean region — often without parents or caregivers. More donor support is needed to ...

More children than ever before live in conflict zones or have been forcibly displaced from their homes due to fighting, the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) said. About 473 million children are estimated ...

The number of young children who have accidentally consumed a marijuana-laced food item at home has grown in recent years, according to a new study published on Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2023. "There has been ...

There are fewer kids in foster care in Ohio than there have been in almost a decade. But that doesn’t mean the state is getting a break on costs.

Lonely children and teens are replacing real-life friendship with AI, and experts are worried. A new report from the nonprofit Internet Matters, which supports efforts to keep children safe online, ...

Helena Osana received funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada for this research. Jairo A. Navarrete-Ulloa receives funding from the National Agency for Research and ...

Currently, between 30% to 50% of all gang members in the violence-wracked country are children, according to the U.N. “This is a very concerning trend,” said Geeta Narayan, UNICEF’s representative in ...

More and more metro Atlanta school children, many in underserved communities, have vision problems. Dr. Sarah Shin is seeing it with her own eyes. “Out of ten, maybe like four or five. That’s a lot.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — A recent data breach involving billions of social security numbers has experts and consumer advocates telling everyone to take steps to protect themselves and their ...