As the Flint, Michigan, water crisis continues, leaving thousands without clean water, CBS News chief medical correspondent Dr. Jon LaPook takes a look at the problems children face from lead poisoning.

A billion kids are now growing up in urban areas. But not all cities are planned with their needs in mind.

About 150 unaccompanied children found at the southern border of the U.S. have arrived in northwestern Pennsylvania and will be housed at a dormitory at the…

The #MeToo movement helped to push France to toughen its rape law over sex with underage children

In one of the more remarkable humanitarian stories of WWII, Briton Nicholas Winton helped save hundreds of mostly Jewish children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia on the eve of the war. Bob Simon reports.

HARRISBURG — About 150 unaccompanied children found at the southern border of the U.S. have arrived in northwestern Pennsylvania and will be housed at a dormitory at the Pennsylvania International Academy. The children landed Tuesday night at Erie International Airport and were screened by a physician, dentist and nurse, the

In their rush to help unaccompanied immigrant children, some critics question whether Long Beach leaders understand what they are getting themselves into.

MUMBAI, India, May 15 (IPS) - Children residing in Child Care Institutions (CCIs, commonly known as orphanages) in India have often found themselves to be the forgotten lot, when it comes to support and development initiatives by the government. This has also been the case during the current lockdown.

Humans aren't good at measuring the disasters that "should" have happened but didn't. So one of the reasons this blog has stalled i…

Across the country, communities have teachers who inspire children. In Minneapolis, a music teacher has inspired students to sing her praises. Tom Aviles from WCCO-TV reports.

All new: What happens when a former hard-charging prosecutor is prosecuted in his old courtroom? "48 Hours" correspondent Maureen Maher investigates Saturday, Feb. 20 at 10 p.m. ET/PT on CBS.

A new report on Los Angeles schools reveals how California's public school students have suffered during the pandemic.

A California woman says in a jailhouse interview that she drowned her three young children to protect them from abuse by their father in the midst of a custody battle

We tend to think of childhood as a time of innocence and joy, but as many as 2 to 3 percent of children from ages 6 to 12 can have serious depression.

ADHD diagnoses have increased by 43% in recent years, according to George Washington University's Milken Institute School of Public Health. NYU Child Study Center researcher Christina Di Bartolo discussed the surprising spike with CBSN.

A survivor says he watched Boko Haram extremists burn children to death in Daloria, Nigeria. CBSN anchors Vladimir Duthiers and Anne-Marie Green explain.

"Are you afraid of your child/children?" I query folks who testify to children who frequently engage in flagrant antisocial behavior — tantrums, brazen disrespect and belligerent disobedience being the top three. I cannot recall an exception to parents — hundreds and counting — answering "Yes." Therefore, it seems that fear

Neanderthal children grew at the same rates and were weaned at roughly same age as Homo sapien children, according to a new study.

In the mid-nineteenth century, the law was ambiguous.

The fire in Niamey engulfed straw classrooms and those in the nursery could not escape.