Abandoned Children Stow Away at Home
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Hirokazu Kore-eda's harrowing, tender film was inspired by a real event in which four children were left alone by their mother in a small Tokyo apartment.
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BALACIU, Romania  - Desperate parents are fleeing the poverty of Romania's countryside in search of work elsewhere in the European Union, leaving their children behind to be cared for by others.
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The sound of weeping mothers who lost their children in the bloody end to Russia's school siege drifted out of the houses of Beslan on Sunday as relatives prepared to bury the first of 333 people killed.
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It&#39;s that time of year again, when normally affable, outgoing people abandon their families for hours at a time to stare enraptured at their TV screens.
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Five Swedish children taken to the Gaza Strip by their Palestinian father more than six months ago in a bitter custody fight headed home Friday in time for a dramatic Christmas Day reunion.
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Seven Texas children were recovering on  Tuesday after surviving for 10 months in a Nigerian shack when  their adoptive mother abandoned them, child welfare authorities  said on Tuesday.
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They are the hidden side of the government's stepped-up efforts to track down and deport illegal immigrants: Toddlers stranded at day care centers or handed over to ill-equipped relatives. Siblings suddenly left in charge of younger brothers and sisters.
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The dishes, garbage and dirty laundry would pile up for days when Cat and Harlan Barnard's teenage children refused to do their chores.
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Pupils on a school trip are stranded miles from home and some events are cancelled because of more heavy rain.
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Mothers cradle children in their arms. Fathers smile softly at the helpless bodies they hold. Other parents are bent over from the weight of their teenage kids whose legs fall limp, almost touching the ground. In the absence of basic medical equipment, these parents do this every day.
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This was the scene recently at a children's home in Antigua, Guatemala, before police removed 46 babies, suspecting they had been kidnapped or coerced from their parents to be put up for foreign adoption.
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IBADAN, Nigeria -- Allegedly abandoned in Africa by their American mother, seven children from Texas begged for coins to buy food and shuttled from a neglectful stranger&#39;s care to an orphanage, Nigerians said Thursday.
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Under a grove of pine and spruce trees, the children were lying on stretchers &#151; dazed, shaken, fragile, and bloodied. Parents hugged them tenderly, cried softly, gave them water. They were safe.
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Children rescued after police carried out raids against crime gangs could soon be reunited with their families.
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Parents of children who have disappeared, including those of  Madeleine McCann, are marking International Missing Children's Day.
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Moved by a stream of images and their own worries, children collect teddy bears, letters, and $1 per pillow on your bed.
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Child welfare agencies are involving troubled families in decisions about where endangered children should live.