Us Child Care

The woman, who reportedly cares for five more children, was detained and charged with child abuse by negligence, which resulted in death.

Parents of young children in the United States are finding that with day care centers in short supply, or too expensive, more and more of them -- mostly mothers -- are having to stay at home to look after their kids.

US President Joe Biden made a deeply personal appeal Friday for a transformation of America's lagging child care services.

A US court has reduced the second-degree murder conviction of an Indian-American woman charged with violently shaking to death an infant in her care after it found no evidence that she intended to hurt the child, according to a media report.

An 11-year-old girl has been charged in Maryland with first-degree child abuse resulting in death after she allegedly assaulted a 1-year-old she was left to care for, police said.

When a 15-year-old boy from Honduras ran away from a huge migrant child care facility along the Mexican border in south Texas on Saturday, the staff ran beside him, pleading with him to stay. They said he would be safe, fed and have better luck being reunited with his family through the team at the former Walmart in Brownsville, Texas - now known a...

A 34-year-old Indian-origin man has been charged in the US with risk of injury to a child and evidence tampering for allegedly failing to seek medical care for his 1-month-old son after realising that the infant was unresponsive and could be dead.

When Ivanka Trump introduced her father at last month's Republican convention, she described a tough-talking deal-maker who also worries about family leave, equal pay for women and the cost of child care.

Laboratory testing of two popular baby care products of US firm Johnson & Johnson has been ordered by a child rights body of the government after taking suo motu cognizance of a number of US court orders against it over alleged lack of warning about health risks of its talc-based products.

The company also will provide eight weeks of paid family care leave so workers can assist a seriously ill spouse, child, or parent.

As US lawmakers grapple with ways to slash spending, many were shocked on Wednesday to learn authorities are spending $250 to $1,000 per day to care for each minor apprehended crossing the US border.

Before 14-year-old Brian Duran set out from central Honduras in mid-April, he heard that child migrants who turned themselves in to the U.S. Border Patrol were being cared for and not deported.

ndian missions in the US have taken up with authorities the case of an Indian couple who have been denied custody of their child after he suffered head injuries in a fall. US authorities took the one-year-old boy, Indrashish, under their care after the accident at the New Jersey home of an Indian engineer Debasish Saha, 28 on Aug 9. The child is c...

After spending nearly a year in foster care in Norway, toddlers Abhigyan and Aishwarya are back in India. They arrived at the Delhi airport a little before 10 am today with their uncle, Arunabhas Bhattacharya; they are en route to Kolkata now. The children's paternal grandparents received them at the airport. As per the court order, their parents ...

As an Indian couple battles in Norway for the custody of their two children - taken away and sent to foster care by the Child Protective Services - the grandparents of the children, accompanied by CPM leader Brinda Karat, met President Pratibha Patil today. "This is a kind of kidnapping. They are refusing to co-operate with the Indian government....

The woman, who reportedly cares for five more children, was detained and charged with child abuse by negligence, which resulted in death.

Parents of young children in the United States are finding that with day care centers in short supply, or too expensive, more and more of them -- mostly mothers -- are having to stay at home to look after their kids.

US President Joe Biden made a deeply personal appeal Friday for a transformation of America's lagging child care services.

A US court has reduced the second-degree murder conviction of an Indian-American woman charged with violently shaking to death an infant in her care after it found no evidence that she intended to hurt the child, according to a media report.

An 11-year-old girl has been charged in Maryland with first-degree child abuse resulting in death after she allegedly assaulted a 1-year-old she was left to care for, police said.

When a 15-year-old boy from Honduras ran away from a huge migrant child care facility along the Mexican border in south Texas on Saturday, the staff ran beside him, pleading with him to stay. They said he would be safe, fed and have better luck being reunited with his family through the team at the former Walmart in Brownsville, Texas - now known a...

A 34-year-old Indian-origin man has been charged in the US with risk of injury to a child and evidence tampering for allegedly failing to seek medical care for his 1-month-old son after realising that the infant was unresponsive and could be dead.

When Ivanka Trump introduced her father at last month's Republican convention, she described a tough-talking deal-maker who also worries about family leave, equal pay for women and the cost of child care.

Laboratory testing of two popular baby care products of US firm Johnson & Johnson has been ordered by a child rights body of the government after taking suo motu cognizance of a number of US court orders against it over alleged lack of warning about health risks of its talc-based products.

The company also will provide eight weeks of paid family care leave so workers can assist a seriously ill spouse, child, or parent.

As US lawmakers grapple with ways to slash spending, many were shocked on Wednesday to learn authorities are spending $250 to $1,000 per day to care for each minor apprehended crossing the US border.

Before 14-year-old Brian Duran set out from central Honduras in mid-April, he heard that child migrants who turned themselves in to the U.S. Border Patrol were being cared for and not deported.

ndian missions in the US have taken up with authorities the case of an Indian couple who have been denied custody of their child after he suffered head injuries in a fall. US authorities took the one-year-old boy, Indrashish, under their care after the accident at the New Jersey home of an Indian engineer Debasish Saha, 28 on Aug 9. The child is c...

After spending nearly a year in foster care in Norway, toddlers Abhigyan and Aishwarya are back in India. They arrived at the Delhi airport a little before 10 am today with their uncle, Arunabhas Bhattacharya; they are en route to Kolkata now. The children's paternal grandparents received them at the airport. As per the court order, their parents ...

As an Indian couple battles in Norway for the custody of their two children - taken away and sent to foster care by the Child Protective Services - the grandparents of the children, accompanied by CPM leader Brinda Karat, met President Pratibha Patil today. "This is a kind of kidnapping. They are refusing to co-operate with the Indian government....