Children

Presidential contender Ron DeSantis has used governmental power in Florida to restrict access to health and education, promoting an intolerant and harmful agenda

After reading a Scientific American editorial on sleep and school start times, students and their teacher wrote to the editors about their experiences. Their district listened, and school will start later next year

Moral panics aimed against trans people are both attacks on that community and part of a broader strategy to control youth across the U.S.

People who raise animals for slaughter do hard, emotional labor that spares everyone else who eats meat from that burden, concludes a sociologist

Young children are taking melatonin gummy supplements, but experts say they should be a last resort to help with sleep

Decades of data support the use and safety of puberty-pausing medications, which give transgender adolescents and their families time to weigh important medical decisions

Moves in Florida to control public education mirror past fascist strategies in ways that are disquieting for American democracy, a historian argues

A new international study finds that the growth and development benefits of children living in cities may have diminished in the past three decades

A universal basic income wouldn’t lead to adults leaving their jobs and could lift millions of children into a brighter future

Science is a social process, and teaching students how researchers work in tandem to develop facts will make them less likely to be duped by falsehoods

The Census Bureau must improve its data anonymization methods to protect vulnerable groups

HIV has taught us how to care for children who have lost a parent, but more countries need to step up