Kids

Parents continue to feel the precariousness of careers and routines dependent on reliable child care during an ever-ongoing pandemic.

With the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia’s Center City location often 90% full, the new hospital in Montco is expected to add capacity as demand for beds increases.

Measurements at age 1 showed faster brain activity in key regions in infants whose families received $300-plus each month. That's compared to infants in families who got $20.

Programming has been temporarily relocated. The community hub in Southwest Philly is on the Rebuild list for an HVAC overhaul.

January is the first month since July 2021 that more than 36 million families in the U.S. did not receive money from the expanded child tax credit program.

You’re welcome, America.

About 400 people live-streamed Thursday night’s meeting. More than a dozen spoke, protesting the district’s continued mask mandate.

Even as Philly officials vow to reduce omicron’s interruptions to in-person learning, the school district’s shifts to virtual are causing angst.

City officials are trying to reach at least 10,000 city families who officials believe have missed out on all payments.

The Pfizer booster is available now to children ages 12 to 15, and immunocompromised kids 5 to 11 can get a third vaccine dose.

Many families remain underconnected. They find themselves able to access the internet and the increasing number of tasks that rely on it with only sporadic success.

A group organized a virtual book drive so the community can buy titles the district has removed or has plans to remove from school libraries and lessons.