Tag: children

New study by the Cancer Council of Australia finds that food industry codes are failing to protect our kids.

UK scientists find that few infected children have symptoms for longer than four weeks and most will be fully recovered by eight weeks.

Government accepts recommendation of Technical Advisory Group that vaccines should be available to children in certain circumstances.

Rights groups welcome the decision to temporarily release the Murugappan family from detention on Christmas Island so they can reunite in WA.

Playing with dolls that have an idealised and unrealistic body can cause girls as young as five to have a negative body image.

The Twitterati had their Tweets in a twist when toy-maker Hasbro announced that ‘Mr’ Potato Head would be known simply as ‘Potato Head’.

A ground-breaking Victorian initiative that uses dogs to support children and other vulnerable people testifying in court is being expanded.

Australian Federal Police issue warning to maximise privacy settings and avoid giving out too much information when posting photos online.

Children are being injured on a monthly basis around Australia by tiny button batteries. There has even been a fatality.

Report warns that there are also dangers, particularly for girls, as new undersea cable enhances internet connectivity.

“When we told my daughter about sex, she had a lot of questions and it came up that her daddy and I have sex. Her follow up question was, ‘Ohh can I watch sometime?’” WHAT?!

Children are so innocent. Well, that’s what you think...

A family court judge in the UK has ruled that four children caught in a a custody battle must leave Britain and return to their mother in Australia.

Australia ranked third overall in a survey into G20 child prosperity trailing behind Germany and France. But economists at Save Our Children say it is not good enough.

An Australian psychologist says Aussie kids are raised to be brats thanks to shoddy parenting.

Children aren’t inherently passive couch potatoes yet 80% of Australian children are getting less than an hour’s physical activity a day, a new study reveals.

A team from Northern Ireland is travelling to Australia to meet with people who suffered abuse in UK institutions before being sent to Australia as children.

OPINION | Following calls in Australia by the Royal Australasia College of Physicians for smacking of kids to be made illegal, POPPY DAMON argues in defence of anti-physical punishment laws.

NSW Premier Barry O'Farrell has rejected calls from Australian medical experts to make the smacking of children illegal.