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Canada reaches a historic deal to compensate Indigenous children

5:55am January 05, 2022

by Emma Jacobs

The Canadian government has agreed to pay more than $30 billion to compensate Indigenous children who were taken away from their families and put into the child welfare system.

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Some corporations are opening up their doors to providing more support for child care.

Child care is getting more support from some private companies

8:00am January 04, 2022

by Camila Beiner

Some corporations are trying harder to help provide child care for families.

A nurse practitioner fills a syringe with the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at the Beaumont Health offices in Southfield, Mich., on Nov. 5.

The FDA authorizes a Pfizer booster shot for children ages 12 to 15

12:47pm January 03, 2022

by Scott Hensley

The authorization comes in the midst of an explosion of COVID-19 cases nationwide driven by the omicron variant — a surge that has brought a spike in pediatric hospitalizations.

California twins are born 15 minutes apart, but in different years

6:27am January 03, 2022

Fatima Madrigal gave birth to a baby boy at 11:45 p.m. on Dec. 31, 2021. His twin sister didn't arrive until midnight, Jan. 1, 2022 — putting their birthdays on different days and in different years.

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Married at 15, Chakraman Shreshta Balami fulfilled his dying father's wish by getting married — at age 15. He had to give up his dream of becoming a doctor. Now the vice principal of Sri Bhavani government school, he campaigns against child marriage —

Child grooms are often overlooked in the fight to stop child marriage

7:42am January 02, 2022

by Photos and text by Stephanie Sinclair

The U.N. issued its first report on the plight of child grooms. And the pandemic has only made things worse. Here's a report from Nepal, where 1 in 10 boys marry young.

A mother and daughter build a tradition around roller skating

5:05am December 31, 2021

by Jey Born

Temica Hunt and her mother Necothia Bowens-Robbinsontalk about their love for roller skating.

The continuation of the child tax credit payments had depended on Congress passing the Build Back Better legislation before Friday.

Politics & Government

The expanded child tax credit expires Friday after Congress failed to renew it

5:04pm December 30, 2021

by Deepa Shivaram

Because the Build Back Better agenda was not passed by the Senate before the end of the year, the last payment of the expanded child tax credit program went out this month.

Regan Adams at her home in northeast Knoxville.

Home prices are up. For Black families, is selling Grandma's house the right choice?

8:09am December 28, 2021

by Laurel Wamsley

Fast-rising home prices are creating opportunities for some longtime Black homeowners. Those high valuations can also raise big questions about the best way to tap into that wealth.

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Daisy Hohman was separated from her three children for 20 months when they were placed in foster care. When Hohman was reunited with her children, she received a bill of nearly $20,000 for foster care from her Minnesota county.

States send kids to foster care and their parents the bill — often one too big to pay

4:35pm December 27, 2021

In every state, governments charge parents for the cost of foster care when children are taken away. When that happens, NPR found, poor parents can't make ends meet, so families are kept apart longer.

Health & Safety

What happens when divorced parents disagree on vaccinating their child?

8:06am December 26, 2021

by Sarah Gibson

Divorced parents don't always agree on everything, including, now, the decision on whether to vaccinate children for COVID-19.