Teens held in solitary confinement around the clock, shackled with leg irons and deprived of an education....
Children
The monthly child poverty rate increased from 12.1% in December to 17% in January. The number of...
Spending on kids has huge benefits, not just for kids themselves, but for society. Introduction It was...
Deep divisions in the U.S. over who deserves academic opportunity and how to present the nation’s history....
Although it is not widely discussed, and the evening news might not broadcast about it very often,...
The nature vs. nurture debate has been in existence for a long time. This debate is one...
Children are very impressionable, and everything they do, get and are taught shapes them as an individual,...
Go back to 17th- and 18th-century England and France and you’ll see the same sort of handwringing...
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal government has authorized more than $50 billion in temporary emergency funding for states...
Children’s clothing appeared only 200 years ago. Until now, children’s clothing and children’s fashion for girls and...
Raising children can become more challenging when working in a foreign country. However, many factors make parenting...
More than a fifth of U.S. children were working in 1900. It took decades of activism and...
Not only was the children’s march relegated to lesser news, it was delivered without many pictures. Images...
Luckily, there are more travel options for children these days than pinning some postage to their shirts...
Industrialization led to a dramatic increase in child labor. Introduction This explores the dangerous, exhausting work undertaken...
Almost 39 million Americans are living in poverty, and 17% of children in the U.S. are impoverished....
Ancient writers who crafted these accounts sought to create a fellowship of grief between their communities. I...
Exploring data from archaeology, letters, contracts, laws, material culture, ancient stories, and religious practices. Introduction The choices...
Working children were subject to very long work hours under harsh and dangerous conditions. Introduction The children...
New research demonstrates that a sculpture is associated with a harrowing episode of anti-Semitic violence in late-1400s...
The state, in the United States and earlier in Britain, has been a formidable creator of orphans....
Tristan and Isolde, by Herbert James Draper, 1901 / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Stephen Robertson Professor of History...
Child survivors of Auschwitz are seen in this 1945 photograph. (Creative Commons) The more notorious concentration camps of the 20th century must serve as...
“The act of ripping children away from their parents is nothing new for the United States. Separating...
Image by Ibrahim.ID, Wikimedia Commons Well, that’s an old story and here’s why. By Dr. Margaret M....
Birds and Flowers of Spring and Summer, by Kano Eino / Suntory Museum of Art, via Wikimedia Commons...
Armorial screen Qing dynasty, 1720–1730, Artists from Guangzhou (Canton), Guangdong province, China / Peabody Essex Museum via Wikimedia...
By Dr. Anne KinneyProfessor of East Asian Languages, Literature and CulturesUniversity of Virginia The unprecedented interest in...
A system built on profit did not spare the young; children were captured, sold, and exploited, their...
Scene from frontispiece to EPB/47966/A: Jane Sharp, The compleat midwife’s companion: or, the art of midwifry improv’d...