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Children and Youth
- Why Aren’t There More Rich Foster Parents? January 17, 2020Bureaucracy — no surprise — gets in the way of expanding the pool of volunteers.
- Why Does America Hate Its Children? January 16, 2020Reasons child care should be a key election issue.
- 8 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend January 16, 2020Our guide to cultural events in New York City for children and teenagers happening this weekend and in the week ahead.
- How Anti-Vaccine Activists Doomed a Bill in New Jersey January 16, 2020Angry parents, an ultra-Orthodox Jewish group and anti-vaccine celebrities rallied to outmatch one of the state’s most powerful elected leaders.
- Trial of 6-Year-Old’s Killer Exposes Lapses in City’s Child Welfare System January 15, 2020A Harlem man was convicted of murder in the beating of his girlfriend’s son after a trial that shed light on the city’s failure to intervene.
- Lawsuit Claims Epstein Trafficked Girls in Caribbean Until 2018 January 15, 2020The attorney general of the Virgin Islands says Mr. Epstein and his associates used a database to track victims as young as 11 years old.
- Former Franklin College President Charged With Sex Crimes Involving a Child January 14, 2020Thomas J. Minar was fired, the college announced, after it found out that he had been arrested in Wisconsin on suspicion of sex crimes involving a child.
- A Mueller Report Witness Pleads Guilty to Child Pornography Possession Charges January 14, 2020George Nader, a Lebanese-American businessman, also pleaded guilty to a child sex trafficking charge on Monday in federal court.
- Bill to End Religious Exemptions for Vaccinations Collapses in N.J. January 13, 2020The proposal had been one of the nation’s broadest, but it came under intense criticism from vaccine skeptics.
- The Bearable Whiteness of ‘Little Women’ January 13, 2020There is a fine line between a story that is about the worldview of a specific person and one that declares that this worldview is the only one that matters.