child
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The district attorney’s office has since January filed child endangerment charges against four parents suspected of allowing their children to illegally ride e-motorcycles, according to the statement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026
As a child, Hall would spend about £1.99 of his pocket money on a new Pokémon card.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
His grown child was indeed incarcerated, and In & Out Bail Bonds is a real business.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
We have agitated for paid parental leave, universal childcare, better public schools, child allowances, and other help for struggling parents.
From Slate ● Sep. 14, 2026
So, yes, maybe I did sound like a child who wanted their mother.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
“Since the creation of television, men have been historically underrepresented,” Mulaney said, explaining that the medium was all “beauty contests and children talking to hand puppets until the early ’60s.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026
Rhys is also stepdad to Russell's children River and Willa.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
The new law "sets an EU-wide minimum age for minors to open an autonomous account at the age of 15," the draft says, with a tiered system applying to younger children.
From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026
It also found that moving and sheltering the most vulnerable — children in foster care, incarcerated youth and adults, people with disabilities — “lacked a countywide coordination model.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026
Some say a mythical creature beckons children to the mountain and they are never seen again.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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