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About 13m US children are living below the poverty line, rights group reveals By Chris McGreal (The Guardian)
America has an infant mortality crisis. Meet the black doulas trying to change that By Nina Lakhani (The Guardian)
By mollycoddling our children, we're fuelling mental illness in teenagers By Jonathan Haidt and Pamela Paresky (The Guardian)
Candy Flavors Put E-Cigarettes On Kids' Menu By Jenny Lei Bolario (NPR)
Children and Young People in Sweden (sweden.se)
Cocoa’s child laborers By Peter Whoriskey and Rachel Siegel (The Washington Post)
Denmark's free 'baby hotels' By Antoaneta Roussi and Matteo Lonardi (BBC)
Detailed New National Maps Show How Neighborhoods Shape Children for Life By Emily Badger and Quoctrung Bui (The New York Times)
Finland's unique baby boxes (BBC)
Giving Every Child a Monthly Check for an Even Start By Eduardo Porter (The New York Times)
Greta Thunberg, schoolgirl climate change warrior: ‘Some people can let things go. I can’t’ By Jonathan Watts (The Guardian)
How to Talk to Children About Terrorism By Pamela Druckerman (The New York Times)
Innocenti Report Card (UNICEF)
In Seattle, A Move Across Town Could Be A Path Out Of Poverty By Pam Fessler (NPR)
Invisible Child By Andrea Elliot (a five part series from The New York Times)
Kids Are Less Fit Today Than Your Were Back Then By Nancy Shute (NPR)
Kids at Play By Jessica Gross (The New York Times)
Kids Count: The Annie E. Casey Foundation
Kids These Days: Growing Up Too Fast Or Never At All? By NPR Staff (NPR)
Pediatricians Urged To Screen For Poverty At Child Check-Ups (NPR)
Photo Essay: When a Kid's Bedroom Isn't a Room By James Mollison (Mother Jones)
Rise and Shine: What kids around the world eat for breakfast Photographs by Hannah Whitaker Text by Malia Wollan (The New York Times)
The babies who nap in sub-zero temperatures By Helena Lee (BBC)
The Future of Children
The Overprotected Kid By Hanna Rosin (The Atlantic)
The Raising of America
The strangers who have babies together Video by Vittoria Traverso and Jake Robbins (BBC)
Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes By Helena Lee (BBC)
Why Japanese Kids Can Walk to School Alone By Selena Hoy (The Atlantic)
Why Letting Kids Serve Themselves May Be Worth The Mess By Maanvi Singh (NPR)
Why safe playgrounds aren’t great for kids By Christophe Haubursin and Gina Barton (Vox)
'You can't win': the parents working full-time – and struggling to survive By Chris McGreal (The Guardian)