The Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) has asked a New Hampshire court to reconsider its decision to order a 10-year-old home-schooled girl into public school."Parents have a fundamental right to make educational choi...

According to a study published in the journal BMC Public Health, children as young as 10- and 11-years-old already have notions about the ideal body.10-Year-Olds & Body Image ...

A 13-year-old girl who wants to become the youngest person to sail solo around the world is to be put under the dual custody of the care services and her parents, after an extraordinary ruling by a Dutch court ...

On the edges of a Salvation Army soup line in Paris, a soft-spoken Afghan boy told the story recently of how he ended up in Europe, alone.New Future ...

Eating Disorders are Complex, SeriousGet downloadable PDF.Get downloadable PowerPoint presentation.About/DisclaimerWhat Happened:A woman recently filed suit against the Pittsburgh Public School District, s...

When Patricia Dooley began to wonder a few years back what her life would be like if she were a nun, she did what she'd been doing for years as a newspaper reporter and editor: She hit the Internet.That's how s...

Kristen Nagy, an 18-year-old from Sparta, N.J., sends and receives 500 text messages a day. But she never uses Twitter...Her reluctance to use Twitter, a feeling shared by others in her age group, has not ...

When I was a boy, I had to walk over to a friend's house if I had something to tell him. Or I could write him a letter. With a pen.O.K., that's a slight exaggeration (there were phones, after all). But children...

Chef Cecil Morris Jr., 46, of Mobile, Ala., knows what it's like to be on both sides of the soup kitchen line.He was homeless and addicted to drugs and alcohol in 1992 when he entered the local Salvation Army's...

A man from the West African nation Togo has admitted his role in the smuggling of dozens of girls and women who were forced to work at hair braiding salons.Smuggled ...