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We always knew it was coming. There were signs we’d learned to read: a change in atmosphere, the sound of the fridge door opening, wine glugging…

The Covid pandemic disrupted the “very fabric of childhood”, the UK inquiry has heard, on the first day of a four-week session devoted to its impact…

A sharp debate over religious exemptions to school vaccine mandates is intensifying across the nation, just as vaccination rates of schoolchildren are declining and childhood diseases…

It is our collective responsibility to understand how toys powered by artificial intelligence – such as those explored by Arwa Mahdawi – impact young children (‘I…

Update: After this story was published, an updated draft agenda for the ACIP meeting was posted. According to the schedule, the committee will no longer consider…

Kate Price is now an academic, but it was at six that she conducted her first piece of research, leaning into the cab of her father’s…

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This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.One common explanation for why children spend so much of…

On July 29, 1981, Princess Diana, then a young aristocrat, married the then Prince Charles at St. Paul’s Cathedral. The event, watched around the world, was…

BRUSSELS, BELGIUM – JUNE 28 : Rihanna pictured at the red carpet during the global premiere of the movie Smurfs on June 28, 2025 in Brussels,…