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Shootings involving children and teenagers have been on the rise in recent years, and 2021 is no exception.

This year, face masks are on most parents’ list of back-to-school supplies. But which ones are most effective? Here’s how to choose the right one for your child.

Families skipped or were restricted from opportunities to get their children’s routine shots last year. Now an overtaxed health care system is having difficulty getting them caught up.

School districts around the country have seen incidents of anti-mask parents and protesters disrupting school board meetings and school events, and some are getting physically violent.

Medicaid should provide these families with a nurse every night and five days of the week. However, due to the shortage of at-home nurses for pediatric patients, that’s not happening. 

The uncertainties about future funding are keeping a lot of day care centers from significantly raising wages, which would help them find workers.

Some public health experts are also parents of little kids, and have to strategize to keep those too young to be vaccinated safe from getting or spreading the delta variant. Here are their tips.

The first monthly enhanced child tax credit payment has landed, but some families are now opting out. Here’s how to decide whether it makes sense for you.