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[chahyld] / tʃaɪld /


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County leave child-care centers annually, according to a 2025 study from the UC Berkeley Center for the Study of Child Care Employment.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026

Mursal Khalif, an MP and head of the Ministry of Defence's Child Protection Unit, says efforts to stop such recruitment can face resistance - "some even viewed it as a Western agenda".

From BBC • Jun. 6, 2026

"The mouse models gave us a biological 'Rosetta Stone,'" said Dr. Adriana Di Martino at the Child Mind Institute.

From Science Daily • Jun. 3, 2026

The bill for that service came from Kiedga LLC, one of more than 100 limited-liability companies linked through medical-provider registration records to the Perfect Child, its founder, or the Brooklyn address on its corporate filings.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026

“The Child Protection people took me to see her. It was the right thing to do,” he said quaveringly, beginning to wail.

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman




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