Kids News
News stories from the Children and Family category.
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| Teenagers Feel Strain of Being French Increasing rates of misery are linked to stresses from school, job shortages and changing values. |
Is Holland the Best Place for Children to Grow Up? A UN report this week named the UK as the worst place to grow up, and Holland the best. Why? Audrey Gillan finds out. |
| 'Holy Moly' - Sperm Donor Comes Face to Face With His Children 20 Years Later Father comes forward after teenagers conduct search through website. |
Toys R Us Backs Down in 2007 First Baby Contest Yuki Lin's parents saw her arrival in the world at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Day as good fortune. "She's a... |
| Dirty Water Kills 5,000 Children a Day UN urges governments to ensure supplies for all. |
Fantasy or Fact - Japan's Children Play Safe Anxious parents flock to a risk-free indoor playground amid fears of rising crime. |
| Boot Camps Under Fire As Teenager Dies After Expedition Private boot camps in Florida for the children of wealthy parents who want them to attend 'character-building' courses were... |
Neveah Reaches Celestial Height on List of Names Nevaeh is now the 70th most popular girl's name in the US, sandwiched between Evelyn and Madeline. The name has grown from... |
| Men's Faces Show Paternal Potential Men's faces can reveal their interest in having children, according to psychologists who claim women subconsciously pick up... |
Baby-learning Videos Lack Educational Value, Say American Psychologists The phenomenally successful market in "baby genius" videos is under attack from American child psychologists, and... |
| How Parenthood Lost Its Charm Europe's plunging birthrate has become a source of growing alarm in capitals across the EU. Yesterday Germany, with the... |
Children 'gain Weight As They Watch Tv' Children consume nearly as many calories as are in a packet of crisps with every hour they spend watching television,... |
| US Boy's Answer to a School Essay on Iraq: Take a Trip to Baghdad Most teenagers would have settled for a visit to the local museum. But Farris Hassan had greater plans for his latest... |
Children Studied for Signs of Mobile Phone Harm A pioneering Australian study will try to determine whether electromagnetic radiation from mobile phones can be harmful to... |
| The Lost Boys, Thrown Out of Us Sect So That Older Men Can Marry More Wives Up to 1,000 teenage boys have been separated from their parents and thrown out of their communities by a polygamous sect to... |
Without Meat Children Are Damaged, Say Scientists Rubbish, reply vegetarians - led by Paul McCartney. Some say meat is murder, while others dismiss a meal without animal... |
| No Sex is Safe Sex for Teens in America Joanna Walters in Killeen, Texas, reports on the $170m Bush-backed abstinence drive that teaches condoms are useless. |
Hell Hath No Fury As a Dad Scorned For three young boys in Texas, this Christmas Day was a little less exuberant than usual. When they failed to meet their... |
| Something Has to Give Gordon Brown's childcare plans are a start, but women are still penalised by our uncivilised working culture. |
Children of a Revolution If Labour brings off its radical plans for childcare, it really will have made Britain a fairer place for everyone. |
| Children Do Not Belong to Their Parents There is nothing intrusive about goverments supporting families. Last Friday, I switched on The World at One when it was... |
Madeleine Bunting: A Job is Not Enough Half of Britain's poor children have a parent who works. Labour's pledge on poverty needs a rethink. |
| Children in Russia to Get Dog Tags Russian school children are to wear military-style dog tags and carry 'passports' displaying their identity and basic... |
The Lonely Professor's Adoption Plea Tugs at Italy's Heartstrings Appeal to be surrogate grandfather highlights the plight of an ageing nation. Giorgio Angelozzi once kept bright-eyed Roman... |
| Texas Politician Seeks Custody to 'save' African Child A white Texan politician is trying to win custody of the 20-month-old son of his African former maid, claiming that he and... |
Oysters, Plums and Coconut Milk: How Children Survived on a Desert Island Three children were yesterday being hailed for their strength and courage after surviving for six days in a treacherous,... |
| Four Years Locked in a Poultry Coop, the Next 20 Tied to a Bed The boy who was brought up as a chicken. The people who care for Sujit Kumar call him a boy, even though he is 32. The... |
Scientists Say Watching Tv Hastens Puberty It is a simple matter of light and radiation, say researchers. Does watching television bring on early puberty? Many... |
| Castro's Childhood Plea to Us President A 12-year-old Fidel Castro's appeal for 'ten dollars bill green american' is among the oddities on show in a forthcoming... |
Court Says Girl, 13, Can Have Sex Change Treatment Row Over Court Ruling on Girl's Sex Change Treatment An Australian court has allowed a 13-year-old girl to have sex-change treatment in a decision which has set the country's... |
| No Wonder Fathers Feel Such Pain Old assumptions always seem to mar new approaches to custody. It is, to be honest, the trouble with men: our inarticulacy,... |
Teenagers - Ignorance is bliss It is one of the world's oldest and most mysterious questions, no doubt asked by Adam and Eve as they shook their heads... |
| US Study of Teenage Sexual Disease Destroys Basis of Virginity Crusade American teenagers who take the pledge to remain virgins until they marry have almost the same rate of sexually transmitted... |
Hard Labour While unpaid overtime is the norm, pregnant women will remain vulnerable at work. So go home on time. |
| To the Power of One She was America's teenage surfing sensation - at just 13. Then she lost her arm in a shark attack. Now Bethany Hamilton is... |
Bush's Latest Headache: His Twins America's first family has its share of parenting headaches with George Bush's twin daughters acting out their resentment... |
| Childcare on the Cheap Labour's enthusiasm for the early years could come to little unless more money is put on the table. |
Diabetes: the Peril for African Children Children who develop diabetes in sub-Saharan Africa are dying within a year for want of insulin, a drug which keeps... |
| Italian Town Where the Mayor Pays You to Have a Baby In Laviano, like surrounding villages, houses stand empty while the cemetery is full. Last year, only eight babies were... |
Birth Bounty As Woman Claims Six Sets of Triplets A Turkish woman is reported to be about to give birth to her sixth set of triplets, an act of physical endurance which is... |
| 13-year-old Us Surfing Star Loses Arm A teenage surfing star is facing a second operation today after a shark bit off her left arm just below the shoulder.... |
Paul Harris on Teen Magazines in the Us Teen Vogue editor Amy Astley tells Paul Harris in New York why high-spending pubescent girls just want to have fun (and... |
| Separated Twins Kept in Coma Two-year-old Egyptian twins who had been born joined at the head were yesterday said to be in "good shape" and in... |
Why Don't We Care What Children Eat? Britain spends just 31p per child on school meals: it is a disgrace. I voyaged across the mists of time last week: on... |
| Dallas Surgeons Separate Twins After 26-hour Operation Two two-year-old Egyptian twins, who were born with their heads joined together, were last night successfully separated... |
Pensioners 'bought' Child Traded for Tv Set Trafficked boy found after 3 years. A pensioner and his wife were being questioned by detectives last night for allegedly... |
| Is Billionaire a Ruthless Killer or Just a Misfit Out of Luck? The tale of a rich transvestite and a bizarre killing has gripped the US. Now he's on trial for murder. David Avina had... |
Mother arrested over euthanasia attempt A passionate pro-euthanasia plea by a 22-year-old Frenchman left mute, blind and paralysed following an accident was... |
| Low-birth Russia curbs abortions Women denounce law reducing reasons for legal terminations. Russia has quietly clamped down on the conditions under which... |
Enid Blyton Madonna didn't know who this famous children's author was. So we would advise her, and everyone else for that matter, to... |
| Future's bright Carl Churchill describes himself as 'a normal 19-year-old'. Except that he likes Scottish folk singer Dougie MacLean. Oh,... |
Nanny is Left $1m Heiress cuts husband out of will. A British nanny has been left $1m (£630,000), free life-time use of a $9m mansion in the... |
| Parents Kept Twins, 5, in a Filthy Cage An Arizona couple were in jail last night for allegedly keeping their five-year-old twin sons in makeshift cages for nearly... |
Babies Give Scientists an Object Lesson in Early Learning Babies could start winning spot-the-ball competitions at the age of six months, according to research released today. Scott... |
| Superheroes Cast As Nursery Villains Superheroes are used to dealing with adversity, but they now have a new opponent: an Australian council which has declared... |
Russian couple try to sell baby daughter A young couple have stunned Russia by trying to sell their daughter for $1,000 so they could buy a new house. In an... |
| Anorexia now affecting Australians as young as four The age of anorexia sufferers in Australia is dropping alarmingly, according to research published yesterday, with doctors... |
Tracing Adam Two years ago a small boy's torso was pulled out of the Thames. With so little to go on, standard forensics were almost... |
| Computer cure at camp for children Given half a chance Daniel, who is 13, will spend up to 12 hours a day staring at a computer screen. He weighs 110kg (17st)... |
Dutch Alert on 'sperm for Sale' Dutch authorities are investigating a private company which has unveiled plans to deliver "fresh" sperm to... |
| Woman of 124 found in Chechnya The world's oldest person, 124-year-old Zabani Khachukayeva, has been discovered in the war-torn separatist republic of... |
Italy Gets Tough on Child Sex Offenders Alessandra Mussolini, grand-daughter of Italy's fascist dictator Benito, is leading a campaign to have Italian child... |
| Musician's Fingers Cut Off in Attack A British saxophonist studying in Australia may never play again after having three fingers chopped off in an attack by... |
'Suicide pact' mother held on murder charge in Italy A woman who allegedly shot her seriously ill daughter as part of an aborted suicide pact is in jail today in Italy facing a... |
| 'I Was Pregnant - and Then My Lover Sold Me and My Baby' Human traffickers, no longer satisfied with their income from enslaved prostitutes, are impregnating them and selling their... |
The facts on conjoined twins An average of one set of Siamese, or conjoined, twins is born in the UK each year. Conjoined twins are created when a... |
| Separate at Last, the Twins Who Died for a Dream Thousands attend funeral of conjoined Iranian sisters. Twins Laden and Laleh Bijani were buried side by side in different... |
Terry talks In 1984, 19-year-old Terry Wallis crashed his car and fell into a coma from which doctors said he would never wake up. But... |
| Mobile Phones Keep Italy's Kids Close to Mamma Italian parents are rearing a generation of mobile phone slaves, according to the conclusions of a study published... |
Crash Victim Wakes Up After 20 Years in a Coma An Arkansas man who went into a coma after a serious car crash during his late teens has awoken nearly two decades later as... |
| A Spark of Hope, Then Twins Lose Fight for Normal Life Grief and recrimination after sisters joined at head die within 90 minutes of each other in attempt at separation. |
Making up for lost time Hollywood may see the web as a place for 15-year-old hackers, writes Peter Preston, but it's really the perfect tool for... |
| Twins Die After 'agonising Struggle' Conjoined Iranian twins Ladan and Laleh Bijani died today from severe blood loss towards the end of a 50-hour pioneering... |
Twins' Two-day Operation Under Way Neurosurgeons in Singapore worked through last night to open the skull bone shared by Iranian twins in the second stage of... |
| 'If God wants us to live as two separate individuals, we will ...' For 29 years they have eaten together, studied together, prayed together, even breathed in the same air - forced to live as... |
South Africans Rape Children As Cure for Aids Almost a third of Nelspruit's 600,000 people are HIV positive. Now the city has another problem, a dramatic increase in... |
| Childcare for All - Now The minister's pledge on children could be a landmark for women, rich and poor. But will Labour deliver? There was a... |
Six Out of 10 Child Deaths 'are Preventable' Ten million children under the age of five die every year around the globe and six million of those deaths are easily... |
| Trapped in a Deadly Game of Hide-and-seek Ugandan children spend nights on the run from ruthless killers their own age. The hide-and-seek begins at bedtime when... |
Parents Mourn 'brave Girl' Who Set Herself on Fire in Memory of Uncle She was a Canadian computer science student who loved playing volleyball and listening to classical music, but Neda Hassani... |
| Windsor safari park Why didn't Prince William devise a less insulting party theme and turn himself into the king of cool? It's a tough call for... |
Liberia's Child Soldiers Play War Games With Real Bullets The road to Monrovia is a bloodstained thoroughfare strewn with surreal violence. It was time for a break at Clay Junction,... |
| Balloon Death Girl Named The five-year-old girl killed when a helium balloon broke loose in a storm at a British army fair in Germany was named... |
Smoking in movies linked to children lighting up Smoking on screen has a serious influence on whether or not teenagers take up the habit, according to a new study in the... |
| Girl, 5, Dies After Being Swept Up Into Sky By Helium Balloon As Storm Hits Holiday Crowd A five-year-old girl was killed after being carried away entangled in the ropes of a helium balloon ripped from its... |
The Mother of All Issues The needs of toddlers are not part of our political landscape - and it is not only women who suffer as a result. |
| Murdered With Impunity, the Street Children Who Live and Die Like Vermin Hundreds in Central America are the victims of 'social cleansing'. Selvyn says he is 14 but he looks about eight. His feet... |
Teenage Girl Conquers Everest, 50 Years on 15-year-old Sherpa girl stands on top of the world. Fifty years ago this week, Sir Edmund Hillary and the Sherpa Tenzing... |
| Fight Rages for Soul of Happy Sindane Mystery deepens over South African white boy raised in a township by a black family. One boy, two stories - and South... |
Child cotton slaves of an Asian tyranny When the school summer holidays begin, Shamsiddin will get up at 4am and work the fields with his bare hands until dusk.... |
| Ambitious Tokyo parents told to make hay if their sons are to shine Ambitious Tokyo parents told to make hay if their sons are to shine. "My wife comes to me every night now, demanding... |
Congo Casts Out Its 'child Witches' Orphans created by war and Aids are being abandoned by poverty-stricken relatives who call them sorcerers. |
| Vanishing Act By Family in Alpine Village The dinner for a family of five remains on the stove at their luxury Alpine chalet near the ski resort of Le Grand Bornand.... |
Black Dahlia Killer Trail Leads to My Father, Says Ex-cop Former LA detective claims parent was a Ripper figure who probably killed many other women. |
| In a dusty hospital graveyard ... a father's desperate search for his son He knelt by the graveside with lines of anxiety etched on his forehead while a hospital orderly in a blue coat dug at the... |
Children of the war It is impossible not to notice the children as you travel around Iraq. They are at the side of every road waving or trying... |
| Alleged Australian Murder Victim Found Alive Australian teenager Natasha Ryan, who disappeared four years ago and was presumed dead, resurfaced today - half way through... |
One Boy's War... Bathed in Blood of His Family His father. His mother. Two sisters. A brother. And an uncle. All dead. That was the price of war for 15-year-old Omar when... |
| Vegans 'put child's life at risk' A couple who fed their premature daughter a strict vegetarian, dairy-free diet are on trial in New York, accused of... |
The black woman - with white parents Long before science learned to meddle with genes, there was Sandra Laing. She entered the world in 1955, a beautiful baby... |
| Kidnapped girl's ordeal over after nine months For weeks last summer, family photos and videos of Elizabeth Smart, the kidnapped Utah teenager, flickered across the... |
Don't worry kids, this one isn't scary Thomas was late for the station. He was very cross with the new tilting trains, which had held him up because they could... |
| Mother tells of last call as families mourn bus bomb children One teenager had just taken his driving test, a 21-year old was on his way to visit his grandmother but most of the... |
Dutroux Victim Tells of Her Ordeal Teenager breaks silence seven years after abduction. The main witness in the long-delayed trial of the infamous Belgian... |
| Father Forced to Pay for Sons Wins Right to Moan Ignasi Puente, a fireman from the north-eastern Spanish town of Lleida, does not get on with his two grown-up sons, and the... |
Jail for Runaway Schoolgirl's Turkish Lover The schoolgirl who ran away to Turkey to marry a barman watched yesterday as a court jailed him for statutory rape. Rachael... |
| Children Given Up at Birth Lose Fight to Find Parents The European court of human rights yesterday upheld a 300-year-old French tradition that allows mothers to give birth... |
US Grapples With Its Most Hated Word Shannon Schumacher thought she was making things better. Earlier this month, she began a project with her students at a... |
| Where the Young Learn That Fear is a Way of Life Suzanne Goldenberg reports from Baghdad on the growing number of children traumatised by the threat of war. |
Nestlé U-turn on Ethiopia Debt Public outrage forces firm to drop $6m claim against country hit by famine. Nestlé, the world's largest coffee company, was... |
| Help toddlers, and then let students pay their own way This is education week. Three government reports in a row are pumping out all the wicked issues. Yesterday it was the 14-19... |
French obstetricians stop work amid boom in births In the midst of a baby boom of postwar proportions, the first French newborns of 2003 were delivered safely yesterday... |
| Babies galore for the broody French While the birthrate in much of Europe may be reaching record low points, France is defying the trend. The country is... |
Boy is Found Living With Mother's Alleged Killer The son of a Californian rap singer, who was kidnapped as a baby six years ago, has been found living with the woman... |
| Mothers We celebrate the fact that Britain is a nation of mummy's boys - and girls - with the mother of all web guides. |
'Help the extended family to rival state care' Fostering is a chance to protect children in the broadest possible sense - to let them see adults in a new way: reliable,... |
| Thanksgiving Our guide to the day when all in America, except Native Americans and of course the turkeys, give thanks. |
Epidemic of Aboriginal Child Illness Australia's reputation as the healthy "lucky country" was dealt a blow yesterday when doctors warned of a growing... |
| Separated Twins Remain Apart The guardians of twin girls accidentally separated at birth in a Thai hospital have agreed that all three girls should stay... |
Law May Allow German Mothers to Give Birth Anonymously Mothers will be able to give birth anonymously in German hospitals if a proposal to be tabled later this month wins... |
| Why we must ban all fun now This evening, hundreds of thousands of British children will be maimed for life in that orgy of sectarian hatred which is... |
Pledges to Fight Malaria Not Kept Millions of children's lives are being lost or blighted because pledges to take action to curb the spread of malaria have... |
| 'I told quake children, look for light, light means hope' A primary school teacher who lost nine of her pupils in Thursday's earthquake told yesterday how she tried to encourage... |
The Shame of the New South Africa 35,000 children are born every year with HIV because Thabo Mbeki will not allow them to receive a single injection costing... |
| Halloween You don't stand a ghost of a chance out there without our guide to the best sites on the scariest night of the year. |
Children Stolen By Franco Finally Learn the Truth General Francisco Franco's Spanish dictatorship stole children from the families of his leftwing opponents and gave them to... |
| 'Mother don't worry' - families in fear as news seeps out in snatched calls Tamara Anatolyevna cannot speak. Her thoughts seem focused on the white fur rim of her hood, which she has pulled in close... |
Australia lied about refugee children Australia's government deliberately lied to the public during last year's parliamentary election when it said that refugees... |
| A new school choice - where would ambulance arrive first? Mallika Gamage's school run yesterday morning involved a few additional calculations: where would the ambulance arrive more... |
Child Safety: Your children are not safe anywhere, any time The sniper who has turned a 100-mile swath of the Washington area into his personal shooting range has threatened to expand... |
| Being 18 This year 130 million teenagers around the world will turn 18. Here Guardian correspondents talk to 18 of them, from 18... |
Jail hell for mum who tried to snatch son back They looked like any family on holiday - a couple and their child playing in a swimming pool in the September sunshine of a... |
| Doctors warn 22m children are too fat As many as 22 million children throughout the world are overweight, according to the World Heart Federation, which warns... |
The Kilshaws The British couple famous for unsuccessfully 'buying' two baby girls over the internet are appearing in a new stage show.... |
| American woman filmed beating up her child surrenders to police An American woman who sparked a countrywide search after a surveillance camera captured her beating her four-year-old... |
Born into exile, children of the revolution will return to media curiosity If anyone can sympathise with the emotions that the children of the Yodogo hijackers will feel when they arrive in Japan... |
| Girl of 11 Abused By 19 Belgian Villagers Country still awaiting Dutroux trial shocked at father who prostituted child to doctor and tradesmen. |
Japan Takes Bear of Little Brain to Its Heart Pooh, created for an English boy 76 years ago, ousts rivals in fierce cartoon market. Slow-witted, overweight and fond of a... |
| Life under the Asian brown cloud John Hayes and his wife loved living in Bangkok. But for the sake of their children's health they were forced to move to... |
Remains found near missing girls' homes Human remains have been found in a garden shed close to a block of flats in Oregon from which two teenage girls vanished... |
| The joys of childlessness The decision not to have children is hardly confined to the career-driven, middle-class professional. I always expected to... |
Dark star Helena Echlin meets the man behind cult children's writer Lemony Snicket. If you still think Lemony Snicket is just a kind... |
| Meet the parent Time was when Tony Parsons made a good living sounding off about bands and birds. But it wasn't until he opened his heart... |
Twins Elvis Presley is not the only celebrity to have had a twin. Read our guide to the best sites on seeing double. |
| Into the arms of a stranger Many more children run away from abuse than are abducted. The disappearance and likely abduction of Jessica Chapman and... |
Lefthandedness Today is official lefthanders' day. Read our web guide to the other side. |
| Streetwise, worldly wise In our natural desire to protect our children, we are actually exposing them to increased dangers. |
Parents charged in paedophile ring A network of parents who sexually molested their own children and traded pictures of them on the internet has been cracked... |
| Women test law on sex history adverts Six women are launching a legal challenge to a Florida law requiring mothers who do not know who fathered their children to... |
Healing the abusers Treatment is vital in preventing paedophiles reoffending. But the problem is complex, and public ignorance also needs to be... |
| Japan's Old Shy Away From Retiring Japanese babies can expect to live longer than anyone else on Earth, according to the latest government statistics, but... |
Kidnap 'parents' are jailed A New York man, who was abducted in 1980 and raised by his kidnappers as their son, failed in his campaign to prevent them... |
| We must still listen to kids This week's libel trial must not distract us from the real issues in child abuse cases. The decision by the High Court to... |
Chinese Smiths Win Name Game China's three most popular surnames are shared by more than 20% of mainland Chinese and amount to more than the population... |
| China moves away from one-child policy China is starting to move away from its "one-child" policy and compulsory birth quotas, just when Washington has... |
'It's time to sleep, eat - and sleep a bit more' Teenager Matt Scott urges parents to stop nagging. This is my daily holiday schedule: wake up at 1pm, fry bacon and eggs,... |
| Think tanks? No thanks In last week's New Statesman, Matthew Taylor of the Institute of Public Policy Research (IPPR) put on his very best... |
Children unaware of internet dangers Child protection experts today launched a new website that offers advice on safe use of the internet after research found... |
| Girl, 10, believed to be youngest victim of ecstasy A 10-year-old girl has died after apparently swallowing up to five ecstasy tablets while playing with a friend at a house... |
6,000 children smuggled to the west each year for sex A growing number of adolescent girls from eastern Europe are being sold into sex slavery in the west, charitable... |
| Britons Arrested As Worldwide Child Porn Ring Smashed Six alleged British members of the most technically sophisticated internet paedophile ring ever cracked by police were... |
Police Swoop on International Net Paedophile Ring Fifty suspected paedophiles were arrested in seven countries this morning, in an international police operation to smash... |
| 'Suicide baby' is latest PR war recruit The toddler's chubby cheeks face directly at the camera, as do the red bandana on his head, and the fake suicide bomber's... |
15m child deaths blamed on failure to tackle poverty Broken international promises on tackling global poverty have cost the lives of more than 15m children in the world's... |
| Adoption in Hollywood Adoption has become ever more popular with women in Hollywood. Should we applaud - or should we be cynical? Dea Birkett... |
The neglect we tolerate Children have no political power, so their needs and experiences are ignored. Our country seems to be in a continual panic... |
| Couple face life for abducting adopted son A couple who went on the run after being ordered to hand back their adopted son to his natural parents are facing life in... |
Mother 'tried to Sell Her Unborn Baby' An Australian woman is on trial for allegedly trying to sell her baby daughter for A$10,000 (£4,000) to a childless couple... |
| French teenage murder linked to Scream horror films A youth of 17 has been arrested on suspicion of murdering a girl of 15 found stabbed, a case linked to the Wes Craven... |
US Pupils Face Random Drug Testing The Supreme Court is set to reject a teenager's challenge, in a victory for the Right. |
| Russian boy, 12, hired hitmen to kill his parents Adopted child's brutal revenge stuns nation. |
'Tiniest baby ever born' goes home from hospital A baby girl who weighed under 10oz at birth has been sent home from a hospital by doctors who believe she is the tiniest... |
| Iranian Police Confiscate Barbie Dolls The long, sweet reign of Barbie is over in Iran. The doll that had survived some of the worst excesses of theocratic rule... |
Pornography Forms French Children's Views on Sex An alleged teenage gang rape 'like some kind of virtual game' underlines survey's fears. |
| Myopia in children linked to bread Bread and cereal could be helping to make western children short-sighted. Diets high in refined starches, such as breads... |
Nursery school may protect children from leukaemia Children who attend nursery school might have a reduced risk of developing childhood leukaemia because their immune systems... |
| NY pupils suffering September 11 stress Tens of thousands of New York schoolchildren have experienced psychological problems since the September 11 attacks,... |
Adolescent Angst A new report highlights the extent of youth delinquency. Why are we incapable of bringing up teenagers? |
| Teletubbies Touch Down in China 10.15am: The Teletubbies is set to be the first foreign show on regular prime-time TV in China, reaching up to 600m people,... |
A fine new year's resolution is to go out and do good After the season of excess come the resolutions - thinner/fitter/nicer. There may also be a nagging sense that it would be... |