Girl Scouts of the USA has shared a reminder to parents that they shouldn't force their daughters to show affection to relatives this holiday season. The organization tweeted the reminder earlier this ...

For infants as young as four months, a hug from a parent makes all the difference. A study appearing April 7 in the journal iScience examined heart rate responses in infants less than one year old ...

For infants as young as four months, a hug from a parent makes all the difference. A study examined heart rate responses in infants less than one year old during a hug and found that children as young ...

On Sunday morning, Dan Harelick cracked open the door to his youngest daughter's bedroom, just barely poked his head in and wished his 13-year-old, Dahlia, a happy birthday. There were no hugs or ...

Healing doesn’t always require words. For many children living with fear, abandonment, or loss and sometimes what they need most is a hug – one that whispers ‘you are not alone’. Recently, *Girls and ...

Despite social distancing measures across the globe that cautions people against close contact with others, including kissing, hugging, and shaking hands, Switzerland says children below ten years old ...

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The Geneva University Hospital (HUG) have today inaugurated the Maison de l’enfance et de l’adolescence (MEA), a psychiatric care center for children and young adults up to the age of 18 and for ...

The ninth annual Hug-a-Tree/Kiss-a-Fish camping event kicked off on May 18 with hundreds of children and their parents enjoying three days of camping, fishing and fun at the YMCA’s Camp Cullen in ...

On Monday, when ProPublica released the now-infamous seven-and-a-half minutes of audiotape recorded inside a U.S. Customs and Border Protection facility, in which several wailing kids can be heard ...

The Trump administration has less than a week to meet a court-ordered deadline to reunite children and parents separated at the U.S.-Mexico border under its “zero tolerance” policy. This comes as ...

Dominic Ferrell, the 17-year-old boy stabbed to death while he was sleeping in a Brickell condo early Sunday morning, June 8, 2025, in what police are calling a random killing. Days before Father’s ...