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Children
Why Are Harmful Flame-Retardant Chemicals Still Showing Up in Children’s Toys?
Some harmful chemicals in recycled plastics can be traced to electronics recycling.
The Problem With Child Detention Isn’t That It’s Private. It’s That It Exists.
Child detention and mistreatment are long-established practices in jails run by U.S. Border Patrol.
On Father’s Day, Let’s Promise Our Children We Will Not Stop Hoping
People made this mess, and people will be needed to fix it.
Why I Can’t Bring Myself to Watch “When They See Us”
I will watch DuVernay's miniseries to bear witness. But going into it, as a Black mother, I’m filled with terror.
Study: Children Near Lead Smelters Are Exposed to Lead in the Womb
The Truth Fairy project provides further evidence that environmental injustice can be transmitted from mother to child.
Child Psychiatric Abuse Is Real — I Should Know, I Lived It
It took many years to accept that there is nothing inherently wrong with me, or with people deemed “mentally ill.”
How Trump’s Immigration Policies Led to Child Deaths at Border
Before last year, it had been more than a decade since a child died in the custody of U.S. immigration officials.
The Government Isn’t Reuniting Migrant Children With Legal Guardians
More than 2,800 children were separated from parents last summer, and hundreds more have been reported since then.
Missing School Is a Given for Children of Migrant Farmworkers
Children living in California's migrant family housing centers miss between three to six months of schooling.
Puerto Rican Students Show PTSD Symptoms After Hurricane Maria
Similar problems have been reported among children in other parts of the Caribbean also affected by hurricanes in 2017.