| Enslavement forced on Haitian children http://www.baltimoresun.com... Children Articles Baltimore Sun - MIAMI - The teen slept on a rolled-up mattress on the dining room floor and bathed in the backyard with a garden hose. For six years, she washed dishes, made beds and cooked for a family that beat her and hid her in a closet when visitors arrived ... |
| Without enough sleep, children gain weight: study http://www.reuters.com/arti... Children Articles Reuters - CHICAGO (Reuters) - Insufficient sleep can negatively affect preteens' metabolism as well as their exercise and eating habits, causing them to get fat, researchers reported on Monday. Children aged 9 to 12 who slept less than nine hours a night were ... |
| Children's at ease with new debt http://www.chicagotribune.c... Children Articles Chicago Tribune - The $1 billion price tag unveiled last week for the proposed new Children's Memorial Hospital will include about $250 million in new debt to finance the relocation and construction of the facility in its Streeterville neighborhood east of Michigan ... |
| Pediatricians press FDA on safety of cold medicines for children under ... http://moneycentral.msn.com... Children Articles MSN MoneyCentral - WASHINGTON (AP) - Pediatricians seeking to reduce the use of cold and cough medicines given to infants and toddlers have told government health advisers that the medicines work no better than dummy pills. The doctors told the Food and Drug ... |
| Mothers Split Over a Ban on Children’s Cold Medicine http://www.theledger.com/ar... Children Articles The Ledger - Mothers reacted yesterday with confusion, irritation and some touches of defiance as a Food and Drug Administration advisory panel voted for a ban on cold medicines for young children. Mothers reacted yesterday with confusion, irritation and some ... |
| Children to Bear the Brunt if Parents Bribe Teachers http://english.chosun.com/w... Children Articles Digital Chosunilbo - In a drastic new program, the children of parents in Seoul who offer of cash gifts to teachers will be disqualified from all internal and external awards. So far, only teachers were subject to punishment for violating laws on the integrity of public ... |
| FDA may extend ban on children's cold, cough medicines http://www.freep.com/apps/p... Children Articles Detroit Free Press - WASHINGTON — Cold and cough medicines recently pulled from sale for infants and toddlers aren’t safe or effective in slightly older children either, say doctors lined up to press their case with government health advisers. The expert advisers to ... |
| Bolivia's abandoned children http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/... Children Articles BBC News - In Bolivia, a weak economy and a shortage of jobs means some parents are moving abroad to find work and earn money for their families. But, in many cases, their children are being left behind with no one to care for them. There are telephone shops ... |
| Peace studies: Children of Israel http://www.belfasttelegraph... Children Articles Belfast Telegraph - At first glance the class of excited nine-year-olds looks like any other when the principal drops in for a visit. As their teacher, Yaffa Tala, writes each item on the blackboard her pupils shoot their hands up to specify what they hope will be in ... |
| Hedge-Fund Rockers Tap Inner Jagger to Help Disabled Children http://www.bloomberg.com/ap... Children Articles Bloomberg - Oct. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Last month, at a basement bar in a New York Cajun restaurant, Chris Heasman of Lazard Asset Management and about 20 other hedge-fund executives dressed down in jeans and T-shirts spent the night belting out songs by the Rolling ... |