Category: children

More Than Just the Basics: Educating Our Children for Life

Hear the word “education,” and most of us conjure up images of classrooms filled with students bent over their math books, learning grammar and spelling, exploring the parts of a cell, reading about the Battle of Yorktown, or puzzling over “Hamlet.” By the time they graduate high school, we expect these same young people to…


Framework for Parental Rights Should Be Left to Parliament to Decide Rather Than Unelected Courts, MP Says

The B.C. judge who recently declared that a woman in a polyamorous family relationship be named as a legal parent, alongside the child’s birth parents, said the ruling will bridge “a gap in the legislation,” but some say definitions of parent should be settled by elected officials, not judges. Conservative MP Arnold Viersen says he would…


Children Will Have ‘No Space To Recover’ if Restricted in Summer: Campaign Group

If CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus restrictions are not removed in summer, children will “have no space to recover,” the UK government has been warned by campaign group Play England. As England’s students approach the end of their school terms, Play England said it’s “really important to think about the summer.” Under current government guidelines, organised…


Three Children Found Dead at East LA Residence; Woman Being Questioned

EAST LOS ANGELES, Calif.—Three young children were found dead June 28 in a bedroom at a residence in East Los Angeles, and a woman believed to be their mother was taken into custody as a “person of interest.” Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department personnel responded to the residence in the 600 block of Ferris Avenue,…


Number of Children Raised by 2 Parents Rises to 30-Year High: Report

A recent report from the Institute for Family Studies (IFS), a conservative think tank, found that the number of children growing up in a two-parent home rose last year to over 70 percent for the first time in nearly 30 years. In its report, which is based on U.S. Census Bureau data, the think tank,…


New Jersey Lawmakers, Parents Call to Stop Mask Mandate for Children

New Jersey Assemblymen and Senators introduced in early June a bill in both chambers of the state legislature to stop school mask mandates. The bill has been sponsored by three Republican Assembly members and 11 Republican Senators. The measure (pdf) stipulates that students in elementary or secondary schools must not be required to wear a…


Facts Matter (June 21): University Lab Finds 11 Dangerous Pathogens on Children’s Face Masks

Over in Florida, a group of parents has been concerned about their kids being forced to wear masks all day long at school. And so, they sent their kids’ used masks to a laboratory to be tested—and it was found that that the masks had trapped 11 different dangerous pathogens. Over in Colorado, a new…


Nutritional Yeast to Help Prevent Common Childhood Infections

The amount of beta-glucan fiber in just a dusting of nutritional yeast each day may be enough to change the course of our immune response to various pathogens, according to a study that put this substance to the test in a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial for the prevention of common childhood illnesses. The findings reflect…


Two Children Nearly Gunned Down on New York City Sidewalk

The New York City Police Department released a video Friday showing a masked gunman opening fire on a man over the heads of two children trying to take cover on a Bronx sidewalk. Video of the Thursday evening incident shows an unidentified shooter running after the victim, who runs into two children and falls. The…


UK Advisory Body ‘Not Recommending’ CCP Virus Vaccines for Children: Minister

The UK’s official advisory body on vaccines will not recommend the government extend its CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus vaccination programme to under-18s, a cabinet minister said on Wednesday. Asked about the issue of vaccinating children against COVID-19 on the BBC’s “Breakfast” programme, International Trade Secretary Liz Truss said that “the government will look very closely at…