The lives of children from rich and poor American families look more different than ever before. Well-off families are ruled by calendars, with children enrolled in ballet, soccer and after-school ...

Many of the 1.5 million children in the U.S. whose parents divorce every year feel as if their worlds are falling apart. Divorcing parents are usually very concerned about the welfare of their ...

The second notable takeaway is that even children of parents from very poor countries like Nigeria and Laos outperform the children of the U.S.-born raised in similar households.

Poverty can follow children into adulthood, affecting their long-term physical and mental health, and making it harder to finish school and climb out of poverty.

Watch Poor Kids Preview on PBS. See more from FRONTLINE. In Frontline’s latest documentary, Poor Kids, children are all too aware of their family’s financial situation. With one in five ...

Very young children should certainly be encouraged to play make-believe, but the subversive goal of the authors of The Pronoun Book and its likes is wholly serious.

How can we improve the earnings of poor children when they become adults? The best way is to raise their educational attainment and skills. The evidence suggests we should invest more resources in ...

Among parents with children in K-12 schools, those who rate their neighborhood as only fair or poor are also less satisfied with the quality of the education their children are receiving. Only 38% are ...

Granted, it’s adopting such wordiness from Judith Viorst’s 1972 children’s picture-book classic Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, a chronicle of one poor kid’s ...

Connor Biscan walks very fast to get home to beat a thunderstorm that was entering the area after fishing at Silver Lake. (Jesse Costa/WBUR) Why hundreds of thousands of poor, disabled children ...