The rising costs of health care, child care, and groceries are putting more pressure on families.

A new generation of toys powered by artificial intelligence is hitting the marketplace this year, from robots that can hold an entire conversation with your kid or a box that turns verbal descriptions into artwork.

The Trump administration has discussed financial incentives to increase birth rates. But can people be paid to have children?

Lack of affordable child care, discrimination against women in the workforce and the sheer cost of raising children all make it less appealing for some mothers to have more children.

More and more children are living with older adults drawing Social Security.

As neighborhoods experiment with play streets, grownups can reconsider modern parenting, Stephanie Murray wrote in The Atlantic.

We’ll do the the numbers on the long-term impacts of safety net programs.

Roblox has some 78 million daily users, many of them pre-teens. Some users, however, are predators.

A new study from Harvard University and the Census Bureau suggests it’s not all about your individual effort or household situation.

The economic life of a child at home has a direct relationship to how things go at school, per the Kids Count Data Book from the Annie E. Casey Foundation.