The global burden of child and youth deaths remains high, despite dramatic reductions in under-5s deaths, and there are stark inequalities across the globe in the availability of health services to ...

Teens who are lonely and those who experience conflict in their home life are more likely to act aggressively toward peers or become victims themselves. These are some of the findings in a new ...

In Western cultures, adolescence is often viewed as a time of rebellion and irresponsibility. A new article published in the journal Child Development Perspectives synthesized recent research on ...

India faces a growing, largely neglected crisis in child and adolescent mental health, rooted in early vulnerability and worsened by an unregulated digital environment ...

Understanding that relationship better is crucial to learn how to keep young children and teenagers safe as they grow up.

Some people believe that parenting doesn’t have that much influence on the child and adolescent’s development. After all, nature can predominate over nurture, and there are so many other factors ...

Before COVID, American teenagers’ psychological health was already in decline. The pandemic, with its sudden lockdowns, school closures and other jolts to normal life, made that downward slope steeper ...

A recent study analyzed the likelihood of young children receiving their owns smartphone, often before fourth grade.

By Zuzana Schwidrowski and Omolola Mary LipedeADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, Feb 19 2026 (IPS) - Africa is home to approximately 160 million adolescent girls aged 10 to 19 (according to 2022 data by the ...

Experts said at a discussion on Tuesday that a rapidly expanding digital landscape was creating new risks of online sexual exploitation for children in Bangladesh. A large number of children faced ...