Facing pressure to get in vitro fertilization services restarted in the state, Alabama’s governor swiftly signed legislation into law Wednesday shielding doctors from potential legal liability raised by a court ruling that equated frozen embryos to children.
Flipping through my social media the other night, I saw a post discussing group homes in my area followed by a string of comments. While many, like myself, spoke in support. A trail of objections relaying fears of how potential new neighbors living with mental health diagnoses could present a risk to children and the greater community.
It’s not often that a columnist is obliged to make reference to pizza in the midst of a rogue-nation-made famine. But the times and decency demand it given that, as a defining aspect of its iron-clad siege of Gaza, Israel, by its own admission, has intended all along to bar food and water from reaching the devastated enclave and the children, women and men who, for the moment, populate it.
Burkina Faso contends with a prolonged militant insurgency tied to al Qaeda and Daesh terror groups, resulting in thousands killed and over 2 million internally displaced over the years.
They were the kids most disrupted by the pandemic, the ones who were still learning to write their names and tie their shoes when schools shut down in the spring of 2020.
Two children were killed when the unexploded device from the past war exploded in the eastern province of Ghazni, Afghanistan, on Tuesday, local sources said.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has reported an increase in the levels of mental disorders amongst the population of the Gaza Strip, especially among children, many of whom were already in need of mental health services and psychosocial support.
Dubai’s ruler Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum was ordered on Tuesday to pay more than €640 million to his ex-wife and their children, in what is believed to be the largest divorce settlement awarded by a British court.
New York City reduced exposure to the dangerous toxin by finding and fixing problem drinking faucets. A new study finds Black students had the most to gain.
About 216,000 children are estimated to have been sexually abused by French Catholic priests, deacons and other clergy since 1950, an independent inquiry has found, alleging the phenomenon was covered up for decades by a “veil of silence”.
