Articles
Prenatal Exposure to Pollution Raises Risk of Autism in Kids
Pollutants in the air are known to affect brain development, but the first national study of in utero exposure and autism rates raises new concerns. ...
Bullying In the Family
Brothers and sisters fight, but when the bickering evolves into physical or emotional abuse, it's bullying. Ordinary arguments over toys and who gets the...
Meet Kenn Nesbitt, the New Children’s Poet Laureate
The 51-year computer geek–turned–writer explains the duties and responsibilities that go with his new job
Viewpoint: What’s Missing from Sesame Street’s Parents in Prison Toolkit
Nearly 2 million American children— one quarter of them too young to go to kindergarten— now have a parent in prison or jail. To help the littlest ones cope,...
What Part Family Plays in Poverty
Getty Images / Getty Images Almost 50 years ago, an ambitious young assistant secretary of labor named Daniel Patrick Moynihan wrote a doomsday-ish report...
Photo Essays
Behind the Picture: Medgar Evers’ Funeral, June 15, 1963
In 1994, eight black and four white jurors found 74-year-old white supremacist and long-time Klan member Byron De La Beckwith guilty of first-degree murder in...
Behind the Picture: RFK’s Assassination, 1968
How many times must we live through these throat-paralyzing sequences of days of gun play, grief and muffled drums? That question, posed by LIFE magazine in its...
Time.com Specials
Rupert and Wendi: The Rise and Fall of a Media Couple
After 14 years, two children and a close shave with a cream pie, Rupert Murdoch, 82, filed for divorce from his wife Wendi Deng, 44, on Thursday, saying that...
Funniest Kids in Cars
Maybe it's the monotony, maybe its the ill-fitting car seats, maybe it's just the only time we can get them to sit still. But young children in cars do some...
