Children

Even while refusing to admit legal fault, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram has accepted, for the first time, that much of its business model is unacceptable for children.

Both sides agree that Clancy killed her children. But neither can offer a satisfactory explanation for why—and that vacuum has fuelled sympathy, vilification, and conspiracy theories.

At times, the question seems less about parenthood than about our views of men in a shifting world.

In the Disney-Pixar series’ latest chapter, Jessie, Woody, and Buzz Lightyear confront a looming threat—screen time—that’s changing the play habits of children everywhere.

A class-action lawsuit is challenging the emergency-removal practices of New York’s Administration for Children’s Services.

Several recent books with unreliable narrators give children the rare pleasure of feeling smarter than the story.

The social psychologist Jonathan Haidt discusses social media’s “subversion of the ability to pay attention on a species-wide level,” how policymakers are intervening, and what more we should be doing to protect children.

Liam Ramos, whose photo became a symbol of Operation Metro Surge, is one of several students in Columbia Heights who are now in federal custody.

Free-speech norms and powerful tech companies make legal restrictions unlikely—but social changes are already taking place.

Toys, crafts, lab kits, and more for the young loved ones in your life.

A new documentary, now on Netflix, shows how disconnected from one another Americans have become—and also how cohesive some of us still are.

As confidence in the C.D.C. wanes, states are asserting more control over their vaccine policies, creating a fragmented public-health system.

Parents have less and less control over what their children see. Our children will likely understand history, and the world, very differently as a result.

Cuts to federal health-care spending make it harder for doctors to make the oldest promise in medicine: that we will do no harm.

Without safe access to food, water, or medical care, survival has become a daily gamble for the region’s youngest residents.

The author discusses her story “Fairy Pools.”

Millions of American children were denied regular in-person instruction for more than a year after the virus emerged. What did we get right—and wrong?

Children have long been put in migrant detention if they were apprehended at the border. Today, lawyers have found, families are being removed from stable lives in the United States.

Young children bring so much joy into their parents’ lives—and so, so many germs.

A tale of two schlepps.