Unfortunately, the shifts weren't in the right direction for the tens of millions of parents who claim the tax credit annually: The enhanced child tax credit of 2021 is "bigger and better" no more, ...

We may earn a commission when you buy products through the links on our site. “A Day for Sandcastles” is a vicarious adventure for 3- to 8-year-olds that takes the form of a wordless picture book ...

The country's child poverty rate more than doubled between 2021 and 2022, a new report published Tuesday from the Census Bureau revealed, an increase that is largely the fault of Congressional ...

The poverty rate in the United States increased last year, the first increase in 13 years, according to the Census Bureau. In 2022, the poverty rate was 12.4%, up 4.6% from 2021, according to the ...

Welcome to our fall 2022 Children’s Announcements issue! In our main feature, we speak with a number of authors who are writing across age ranges and genres about the joys of exploring unfamiliar ...

Topline: Children’s physical activity worldwide dropped by 20% over the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a JAMA Pediatrics study released Monday – a “developmental turning point,” researchers say, and ...

Four years since their launch of a fall Children’s Book Week, the Children’s Book Council and Every Child a Reader are preparing a full roster of new and improved activities to attract more teachers, ...

Long before the Covid-19 pandemic began in early 2020, the U.S. was already in the throes of another very-bad-for-health epidemic—an epidemic of physical inactivity among kids. During the 2010s, ...

The global burden of child and youth deaths remains high, despite dramatic reductions in under-5s deaths, and there are stark inequalities across the globe in the availability of health services to ...

The Center for American Progress has developed a data dashboard that allows users to explore national- and state-level data trends on a range of child care and early learning topics, including access ...

2022 has been a big year for children globally. With your help, Save the Children is working to build a a better future for children across the world - a future they deserve. 10-month-old Guled became ...