Children & Families

“The Children of Central City” is a powerful set of stories and videos that uncover the deep emotional and physical scars born by New Orleans’ most vulnerable kids.

Following a story in The New York Times last week, there has been widespread news coverage of actions by American officials to undermine a resolution on breastfeeding at the recent World Health Assembly, held at the United Nations in Geneva in May. News stories highlighted that U.S. officials threat

Decades of research have underscored the health benefits of breastfeeding for mothers and babies. You wouldn't know that from recent U.S. moves at the World Health Assembly.

This project received support from the Center for Health Journalism's California Fellowship and its Fund for Journalism on Child Well-being....

This project received support from the Center for Health Journalism's California Fellowship and its Fund for Journalism on Child Well-being.
Other stories in the series include:
 
Black babies die at twice the rate of white babies. My family is part of this statistic
 
America's black babies are pay

This article was produced as a project for the Dennis A. Hunt Fund for Health Journalism, a program of the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism. 

In states such as New Mexico, many kids are put into treatment foster care who should never be there. The programs, run by private companies, vary widely in quality and safety from state to state.

In East St. Louis, the school district is helping parents get back on their feet.

It's one thing to identify the complex social cause of this crisis. It's far harder to combat racism and stop more babies from dying.