Children
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Healthy Black Children More Likely to Succumb to Surgery Than White Peers: Report
African American children who seemed healthy prior to surgery have been more likely to die in the weeks following the…
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Child Watch: The Invisible Leaders of Social Change
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist Women’s History Month is a reminder that in every major American social reform…
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Raising a Child Costs $241,080, Says USDA Report
[Des Moines Register] Parents will spend $241,080 to raise a child born in 2012, according to a report by the…
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CHILD WATCH: Children Need to Fly, Too, to End Sequestration
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist Anyone despairing that Congress can’t get anything done should note last week’s swift…
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CHILD WATCH: The Fight to Protect Children from Guns is not Over
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist The United States Senate’s failure to pass common sense gun safety measures –…
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Facebook photo raid? NJ child holding gun brings social workers to home
[PIX 11] A New Jersey family got a visit from social workers after a picture of a young boy holding…
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CHILD WATCH: The Devastating Voices of Children
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist “My friends are dead. I saw the bad man. He was next to me …
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Child Watch: Children Must Stop Dying from Gun Violence
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist On Saturday, January 26, I was part of the March on Washington for Gun…
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CHILD WATCH: How We Can Truly Honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist In his last Sunday sermon at Washington National Cathedral, Dr. King retold the…
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