Nearly 20% of all children in the US have what’s considered to be a high body mass index, the measure that practitioners use to determine whether a person has obesity. New draft guidelines released ...

Alaska’s beleaguered child care sector is receiving unprecedented attention from state and local governments, but advocates say substantial new investment is needed. Long waitlists, low wages, lack of ...

A national advisory organization has come down on the side of behavioral interventions, not obesity medications, to help children 6 and older with high BMI improve their health, wading into the debate ...

Purdue University President Mung Chiang has formed a task force to increase the available capacity of two of the three child care centers that operate on campus, which serve children ages 6 weeks to ...

Parents are much less likely to intervene when their young children are getting dressed or performing other simple chores if those tasks are framed as learning opportunities, according to a new study ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. Children separated from parents who couldn’t afford basic needs. Lackluster tracking of young people in the ...