Of the Nation's 11.8 Million Black Children
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5.6 million      LIVE WITH THEIR MOTHER ONLY       4.6 million      LIVE WITH TWO PARENTS       1.1 million       LIVE WITH NEITHER PARENT    393,000       LIVE WITH THEIR FATHER ONLY  (NUMBERS ROUNDED)
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Some 30,000 kids have been used as fighters. Reestablishing a normal life can be difficult.
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WASHINGTON -- Largely because of the AIDS crisis, nearly one-quarter of all children in Zimbabwe are orphans, a figure that approaches historic levels set in Rwanda after the genocide in 1994, according to a new national survey.
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The National Children&#39;s Study will track 100,000 children from before birth to the age of 21. Data will be collected to determine how factors such as immunizations, watching television, the environment, prenatal
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Boys and girls are being recruited in record numbers, international charity Save the Children said Monday
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Todayâs warning by the World Health Organization and the World Heart Federation is more sad news for overweight kids. Worldwide, the WHO says, there are 18 million overweight children under the age of five
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African-American babies in Michigan are almost three times more likely than white babies to die during their first year of life and twice as likely as whites to be born at a low weight
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Today, 27 million people are enslaved, more than at the height of the transatlantic slave trade.
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WEDNESDAY, July 11 (HealthDay News) -- Even though one out of three American children live within a mile of their school, barely half of those students regularly bike or walk to class, researchers report.
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The number of American children with chronic health problems such as obesity, asthma and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder has soared in the past four decades, foreshadowing increases in adult disability and public health-care spending, researchers said yesterday.
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Black ethnic minority pupils are still outperformed by their white classmates but continue to narrow the gap.
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Eight in 10 of the nation&#039;s youngest children &amp;#151; babies up to age 6 &amp;#151; watch TV, play video games or use the computer for about two hours on a typical day. A third live in homes where the TV is on most of the time.
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Although the gap has closed and more kids than ever are online, white children still use the internet in much larger numbers than minorities do.
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Many more white children use the Internet than do Hispanic and black students, a reminder that going online is hardly a way of life for everyone.
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The nation's most elite colleges and universities are bolstering their black student populations by enrolling large numbers of immigrants from Africa, the West Indies and Latin America, according to a study published recently in the American Journal of Education.
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For the first time on record, the vaccination rate for black children in the United States has caught up to that of youngsters in other racial groups, the government reported Thursday.
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Across the United States, a growing number of children are living in shelters or group homes.