Multiple threats to children's health, safety and well-being include recruitment into armed groups amid escalating violence ...

In an opening address, the pope, lamented that throughout the world, children’s rights “are daily trampled upon and ignored.” ...

Exactly a century ago this year, the Supreme Court, in its decision in Pierce v. Society of Sisters, recognized the ...

Wrapping up a Vatican summit on the rights of children, Pope Francis announced he was going to publish a papal document dedicated to children.

Pope Francis has convened a high-level summit to demand that children be protected from war, forced labor, trafficking and ...

After the Trump administration announced plans to remove the "sensitive locations" policy for immigration enforcement, ...

Speaking in the Vatican’s Clementine Hall, Pope Francis also drew attention Monday to his concern that young people, ...

Queen Rania of Jordan made a trip to Italy on Monday for the World’s Summit on Children’s Rights at the Vatican. The royal ...

Montgomery County, Maryland, parents are appealing to the Supreme Court for the right to opt their children out of story books that contain LGBTQ storylines in school.

New York City child welfare agencies routinely investigate parents who report being abused, but a state appellate court ruled ...