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Children

August 2024

  • Dr Norman Swan sitting on some rocks on sand

    Walk with ...
    Norman Swan: ‘I tried very hard to do the opposite of what I experienced as a child’

    The veteran broadcaster talks about fatherhood, marriage and the challenges of his own childhood as he releases a book about children’s health
  • Misty Roberts, mayor of DeRidder, Louisiana.

    Louisiana mayor arrested on child rape accusations after abrupt resignation

    Misty Roberts left post days before being jailed for third-degree rape and contributing to delinquency of minors
  • Shadow of a child on a playground swing<br>Shadow of a child on a playground swing - stock photo

    I have three daughters. These are the ways the two-child benefit limit affects us every single day

    Anonymous
    As politicians go back and forth on scrapping the policy, four of us are barely getting by on the money provided for three, says an anonymous single parent

31 July 2024

  • Teenager using phone while laying down on the sofa

    Teenagers displaying ‘problematic phone use’ more likely to be depressed

  • Close-up of the presenter wearing sunglasses

    How the Huw Edwards scandal might affect the BBC’s reputation

30 July 2024

  • A woman walks along an elevated walkway on the Falinge Estate, which has been surveyed as the most deprived area in England for a fifth year in a row

    Benefit cap traps families in crowded, rat-infested homes, report finds

  • Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

    Republic of Parenthood
    When is inconsolable crying a sign of something worse? Parents aren’t getting the advice they need

    Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

29 July 2024

  • Elle Hunt

    I loved being home schooled (apart from my mum’s sex ed lessons). But are new methods too radical?

    Elle Hunt
    ‘Free-schooling’ is far removed from my experience – and likely to provoke strong views, as one TikTok influencer discovered, says freelance journalist Elle Hunt

28 July 2024

  • Jonathan Kennedy

    Men are spending more time looking after their children – and it’s not just cultural, it’s in their genes

    Jonathan Kennedy
  • Nadsy Qurban standing in a street between two rows of houses

    ‘We got failed by the police’: how veterans of Leeds riots stepped in to defuse disorder

  • Family Walking Through Winter Woodland Having Fun

    The two-child benefit cap: what is it, does it work and how much would it cost to scrap it?

  • HvH Arts CEO Debbi Clark with children at its summer scheme.

    ‘Will the kids eat or not?’ In Keir Starmer’s constituency, families struggle with poverty

27 July 2024

  • Early 20th-century illustration of a young child trying on makeup set against a backdrop of photos of modern beauty products.

    ‘She has a hyaluronic acid and niacinamide serum’: the curious boom in skincare for tweens

    From lip balms to luxe serums, Generation Alpha is an increasingly profitable market for the beauty industry. What’s causing prepubescent children to covet adult skin care regimes – and is it anything to worry about?

26 July 2024

  • Acasia Welburn

    School worker jailed for sexually abusing autistic boy aged under 16

  • An aerial view of the old Kinchela Boys Home outside Kempsey, NSW, Australia

    Buried lives
    NSW boys home grounds to be explored after possible ‘clandestine’ human burial sites revealed

  • Children walk single file between patches of water, with temporary shelters in the background.

    Opinion
    Children in Gaza are now at risk of polio as well as bombs – we need a ceasefire now

    Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
  • A portrait of Hazem Rahma, a director at Mubarrat Al Rehmat orphanage in Gaza City, holding two young children, atop the Palestine colours

    Gaza voices
    The Gaza orphanage director: I carried a small boy with cerebral palsy to safety – but he died soon after

25 July 2024

  • Relatives carry the bodies of children from the Abu Quta family killed by Israeli strikes on Rafah, during their funeral.

    US medics who volunteered in Gaza demand arms embargo over ‘unbearable cruelty’ inflicted by Israel

    Doctors and nurses say death toll is more than 92,000, describe gruesome injuries and a sick and traumatized people
  • Small boy playing in a park

    Labour is out of touch on the two-child benefit cap

    Letters: The government can’t be taken seriously on child poverty, writes Alan Sharkey, while Mike Sheaff decries the suspension of rebel MPs. Plus letters from Leah Key and Peter Brooker
  • Keir Starmer

    Politics Weekly UK
    Labour suspensions and the Tory leadership race - Politics Weekly UK

    Keir Starmer has suspended seven of his MPs who rebelled against the whip to scrap the two-child benefit cap. So why won’t Labour scrap the controversial limit, and what does this first test of Starmer’s leadership tell us about the party’s financial position? The Guardian’s John Harris is joined by columnist Gaby Hinsliff and former Downing Street chief of staff and Conservative peer Gavin Barwell to discuss the issue. Plus, the Conservative leadership race begins
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