2018 may be remembered as the year people stopped caring about what happened to children

We ignore the impact of covid-19 on vulnerable children at our own peril.

The jump in pediatric cases comes as children are entering close quarters for the first time in months as some schools open their doors to students again.

From putting them in cages to failing to protect them from sexual predators, our indifference is unconscionable.

In the nation’s annual homelessness tally Wednesday night, most adults got counted but many children did not.

The president just diverted millions of dollars that were supposed to fix a decaying day care at Joint Base Andrews and schools at Fort Bragg and Fort Campbell.

D.C. students told searing stories about their lives during a speech contest. They need adults to start caring and stop failing.

They’re falling behind other countries’ kids. Do the presidential candidates care?

As the school year looms, the pandemic is still raging.

Reasons child care should be a key election issue.

The child tax credit, begun in 1997 as a tax cut, has become an anti-poverty program. But more than a third of children don’t receive it because their parents earn too little.

The emergency legislation enacted by Congress with support from Republicans and President Trump has intensified a long-running debate about whether the United States does enough in ordinary times to...

Child hunger is soaring, but two months after Congress approved billions to replace school meals, only 15 percent of eligible children had received benefits.

It’s been three decades since the Annie E. Casey Foundation published its first Kids Count report, an annual collection of statistics on child well-being attractively packaged and broken up by state...

Republicans don't feel a moral compulsion to treat them like human beings.

We don't think nonwhite children deserve the same protections as “innocent” white ones.

Dozens of Salem City Club members fell silent, and some were moved to tears, as Warren Binford spoke about seeing young children left to care for infants, a lice outbreak, insufficient food and kids...

So is leaving them closed. Now what do we do?