Sensitive children often get a bad rap. They can be labeled as “difficult,” “dramatic” or “spoiled,” and often parents are blamed for coddling or over-accommodating them. Yet, research increasingly suggests that children show real differences in sensitivity and respond to parenting differently as a result. In other words, some children really are more sensitive than … Read more
Sister Wives star Robyn Brown talked about spirit babies a few seasons back on the TLC series, which suggested becoming pregnant entails much more than finding a DNA donor. You need to have one of these ghostly children hanging around first. Plus, her use of the word “soulmate” is under scrutiny, as it sounds like … Read more
Global conflicts killed three times as many children and twice as many women in 2023 than in the previous year, as overall civilian fatalities swelled 72%, the United Nations said Tuesday. Warring parties were increasingly “pushing beyond boundaries of what is acceptable — and legal,” U.N. human rights chief Volker Turk told the U.N. Human … Read more
A family of six, including three children, were killed Friday by gunmen in the southern Mexico border state of Chiapas in a town marred by cartel-backed militia violence. Julio Pérez, the mayor of the Chiapas town of Pantelho, said the killings happened there Friday, and called it “a massacre.” Two warring militia groups suspected of … Read more
Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Tuesday that investigators are looking into the killings of four women and two children in central Mexico, where security video shows National Guard officers were present. The murders occurred Sunday in León, an industrial city in the state of Guanajuato where drug cartels have been fighting bloody turf … Read more
Author and Page information by Anup Shah This page last updated Saturday, September 24, 2011 This page: https://www.globalissues.org/article/715/today-21000-children-died-around-the-world. To print all information (e.g. expanded side notes, shows alternative links), use the print version: The silent killers are poverty, hunger, easily preventable diseases and illnesses, and other related causes. Despite the scale of this daily/ongoing catastrophe, … Read more
The fact that a district could struggle so mightily with special education staffing that students are missing school – that’s not just a Del Norte problem. A recent federal survey of school districts across the U.S. found special education jobs were among the hardest to staff and vacancies were widespread. But what’s happening in Del … Read more