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Some 36 million families are eligible for advance payments of enhanced child tax credits for 2021, and the Internal Revenue Service has launched two new online tools to help taxpayers navigate this ...

University of Minnesota economists recently launched an online tool that reveals how families’ access to child care varies statewide. The tool maps child care access in different neighborhoods and ...

With rising concern over social media’s ‘toxic‘ content problem, and mainstream consumer trust apparently on the slide, there’s growing pressure on parents to keep children from being overexposed to ...

Focus on signs of concern rather than seeking total control. One way is to summarize their posts, comments, or videos to look for concerning themes. Google's Family Link and Apple's Screen Time are ...

Having kids just got more valuable: Millions of Americans are eligible for advance payments of the ... More new expanded child tax credit. The Internal Revenue Service today updated its Child Tax ...

Roblox, Discord, OpenAI and Google are launching a nonprofit organization called ROOST, or Robust Open Online Safety Tools, which hopes "to build scalable, interoperable safety infrastructure suited ...

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Child welfare officials in Oregon will stop using an algorithm to help decide which families are investigated by social workers, opting instead for a new process that officials say will make better, ...

Ten years after 2-year-old Bella Bond’s death exposed flaws in child welfare oversight, Massachusetts still struggles to act on its own risk assessments. In 2022, a Worcester family was identified as ...