children

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NHS Lothian said no decision on the future of the specialist residential units for children with complex needs has been made.

From BBC • Apr. 8, 2026

“In the Fields of Fatherless Children,” the publisher writes: “examines the long shadow cast by the Vietnam War. Not just on the battlefield, but on the women, children, and rural communities that were left behind.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026

“Moral education,” Winnicott wrote, “is no substitute for love”—it is the latter that might prove a better model for the way children and teachers relate to one another.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

"We're waiting to find out if my brother-in-law's children are alive," he said.

From Barron's • Apr. 8, 2026

I was angry back at her, hysterical almost, saying all manner of things I should not have said, about Papi going off and leaving us, about how parents always ruin the lives of their children.

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo