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Jenna Cook created this poster when she left her home in Massachusetts in 2012 to return to Wuhan, China, where she had been abandoned as a baby. She hoped a relative might see the poster. She ended up meeting with 50 families who thought she might be the

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Her Search For Her Mother Touches An Entire Chinese City

10:57am April 12, 2016

by NPR Staff

Jenna Cook returned to China at age 20 to search for her birth mother. What she found, above all else, was the collective pain of dozens of Chinese families who had given up children.

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A new dad may look like he's holding it together, but odds are he's pretty sleep deprived.

For New Parents, Dad May Be The One Missing The Most Sleep

1:05pm April 05, 2016

New moms get a lot of sympathy over lack of sleep, but studies find that dads may be hurting more, a new book on the science of parenting says. Bottom line: Both parents need help getting shut-eye.

Children play amid the rubble of a house destroyed by a 2015 Saudi-led airstrike in Yemen's capital Sanaa.

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The Deadly Consequences To Children Of Yemen's War

4:58pm March 29, 2016

by Merrit Kennedy

Hundreds of kids have been killed in the violence. And a new UNICEF report suggests that many times more children died because of the near-collapse of the country's health system.

A woman carries a child injured in a triple blast a suburb of the Syrian capital Damascus on Feb. 21.

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New Report Documents 'Childhood Under Siege' In Syria

10:38pm March 08, 2016

by Laura Wagner

"There are snipers shooting at anyone on the road, and landmines in the fields. Checkpoints stop everything coming in– food, medicine, fuel; everything needed for life."

Asylum seekers from Afghanistan play football Feb. 7 in a resort in Halmstad, Sweden, where they are living temporarily. Sweden took in 163,000 migrants in 2015. Resistance to migrants is beginning to grow among some Swedes.

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As Migrants Flow In, Sweden Begins To Rethink Its Open-Door Policy

4:04pm March 07, 2016

by Eleanor Beardsley

Sweden has taken in more asylum seekers per capita than any other European country — including 35,000 unaccompanied minors in 2015. But not everyone in Sweden wants to keep the doors open.

Hans Sick and Freia-Mai Franck have taken in two Afghan teenagers. Franck, who came to Sweden as a German refugee after World War II, says, "I'm remembering what was happening to me when I was a child."

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Fleeing Alone, Some Migrant Kids Find Foster Homes In Sweden

12:43pm March 06, 2016

by Eleanor Beardsley

Sweden took in a record number of asylum seekers last year, among them 35,000 children who arrived without their parents. The luckiest are in foster care with Swedish families.

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Amran, an unaccompanied minor from Afghanistan, at right, walks in the camp known as the Jungle with 35-year-old Farid Hamdan, a father of four, also from Afghanistan. "My heart is saying help him because he's only a kid," says Hamdan. "He has nobody else

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A Young Afghan Migrant Makes His Way In The Calais 'Jungle'

6:13am March 04, 2016

by Eleanor Beardsley

Many asylum-seekers in Europe are unaccompanied minors, traveling alone or separated from families. Amran, a 13-year-old Afghan, is among hundreds of minors left to fend for themselves in France.

A Syrian refugee girl plays with her balloon at a camp in Turkey.

Health & Safety

After A Disaster, Kids Don't Want To Talk About The Disaster

6:52pm December 17, 2015

by Emily Sohn

Well-meaning folks have assumed kids want to process what they've lived through. That turns out to be not the case. Kids who lived through Katrina taught mental health professionals valuable lessons.

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North Carolina Higher Than Average When It Comes To Single-Parent Families

5:21pm December 17, 2015

by Sean Bueter

A new analysis by the Annie E. Casey Foundation shows more than a third of kids in the U.S. are being raised by a single parent, For many states in the South, that number is even higher.

More than 90 percent of American parents think they are doing a good or very good job raising their kids, according to a Pew poll.

For American Parents, Differing Incomes Mean Divergent Concerns

1:25pm December 17, 2015

by Camila Domonoske

A Pew survey finds parents' worries vary widely based on income levels. Among other things, Pew also finds most parents — particularly young moms — think they're doing a good job raising their kids.