Two-thirds of children aged 2 to 5 use screens for more than an hour a day, and the average starting age of screen use is getting dramatically lower. During the past two decades, researchers have ...

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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton late on Thursday said he is suing online gaming platform Roblox over child safety concerns, accusing the company of “deceiving parents about the dangers of its ...

GREENVILLE, S.C. (WSPA) – Therapists in the Upstate said they’ve seen a surge in the demand for child therapy services. They said multiple factors, including the current political climate, are driving ...

The technology is used by more than 70% of teenagers in the U.S. Character.AI, one of the leading platforms for AI technology, recently announced it was banning anyone under 18 from having ...

A group of children from Ukraine spent the past week on a tour around the U.S., getting a break from the ongoing war at home. Ten seconds in the Oval Office that overshadowed Trump’s drug-price win ...

Sasha Woods’ World View describes how citizen scientists can transform research (Nature 644, 582; 2025). Yet one subset of this group remains under-recognized: children. In health technology ...

A group of bipartisan senators introduced legislation Tuesday to provide limited liability protections for organizations to store evidence of child sexual exploitation in the cloud for law enforcement ...

This article was featured in New York’s One Great Story newsletter. Sign up here. Julia Wise, a mother of three in Boston, published an essay last February that articulated a new kind of parenting ...

It’s not your fault if you feel outmatched raising children in a world of powerful and alluring technology. Technology companies for years promoted parental controls and child safety features that are ...

STURGEON LAKE, Minn. — A vulnerable child is safe with his family after he wandered away from a campsite in east central Minnesota over the weekend. The Pine County Sheriff's Department says 911 ...

Though artificial intelligence is fueling a surge in synthetic child abuse images, it’s also being tested as a way to stop harm to real victims. Generative AI has enabled the production of child ...