Testimony: Cages improved kids' behavior
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Parents charged with forcing some of their 11 special-needs adoptive children to sleep in cages managed to improve the youngsters' behavior with the enclosed bunks, according to testimony from a social worker also charged in the case.
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A couple who forced some of their 11 adopted, special-needs children to sleep in cages were sentenced Wednesday to two years in prison each for child endangering.
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NEW YORK  - The average age when children  are successfully toilet trained is going up, and new research  has identified certain factors related to this trend.
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The legal case of a girl with special educational needs could prompt a rethink of the use of restraint in schools.
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A couple on trial for putting some of their 11 adopted children in cages are guilty only of loving them, a defense attorney said Tuesday in his opening statement.
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Some 30,000 kids have been used as fighters. Reestablishing a normal life can be difficult.
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By WILSON RING  WINDSOR, Vt. - At the Southeast State Correctional Facility, inmates are subjected to head counts several times a day. Not Ziggy, Marmalade, Smokey and Shane, though - they come and go as they please. They're prison cats - but only for now.
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By Mari A. Schaefer, The Philadelphia Inquirer  Feb. 25--Hooked up to tubes and monitors, a metal brace drilled into his skull to immobilize his broken neck, Frank Burd worried how his students would fare on state tests next month now that he could not be there to help them.
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The average age when children are successfully toilet trained is going up, and new research has identified certain factors related to this trend.
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A jury began considering Tuesday whether the adoptive parents of 11 special-needs children committed a crime by confining some of them in wire and wooden cages at night.
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A couple who forced some of their 11 adopted, special-needs children to sleep in wire-and-wood cages were sentenced to two years in prison Thursday, after the parents insisted they were only trying to keep the kids safe.
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Eight out of 10 youths on a punishment scheme reoffend in a year, a report says, but results are better than prison.
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(HealthDay News) -- Pets can help build your child&#39;s self esteem and self-confidence, according to the Children&#39;s Hospital of Philadelphia.
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Children involved in antisocial behaviour will have punishments decided by their peers in a pilot project.
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DALLAS, Dec. 16 -- Nearly 10 months after reports of inmate abuse first surfaced, not everyone agrees with claims of progress in reforming the agency that oversees the Texas juvenile prison system.
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Children with disorders in what is known as the autism spectrum tend to be less irritable and hyperactive after a period of high temperature, a new study suggests.
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Children exposed to cocaine in  the womb exhibit behavior problems up to at least 7 years of  age, according to a long-term study that enrolled 1,388  children between 1993 and 1995 at four centers.