Society / Children
Articles about Children, ordered by date. 
Toys from trash
Simple models by India’s ‘science magician’, Arvind Gupta, are making learning fun for young minds around the world. Priti Salian reports from a classroom in Bangalore.
Global babies: who benefits?
Surrogacy has become an international trade that needs tighter regulation, argues Miranda Davies.
Letter from Cochabamba
Working children have more pressing concerns than the law, discovers Amy Booth.
British parents boycott school census
Parents have boycotted a school census to protect against administrators being ‘turned into border guards’ by the government, Amy Hall writes.
'Everything is on my shoulders'
Serah Tomba went from being a student to sole carer of seven orphans.
Crocodile tears and con tricks
Fiona Broom reports from Nepal on the scandal of the ‘orphanage industry’.
Rushing towards death
It has been called the most dangerous job in the world. The White Helmets are a fearless volunteer force that has pulled thousands of Syrians from the rubble left by the regime's deadly barrel bombs.
Don't write in the profit margins
Children should be allowed to be children, not taught to 'turn over a profit', argues Steve Parry.
Growing upside down
For thousands of Peruvian children, daily life means working to help feed the family. Fernando Del Berro meets one of them.
Migrant families ripped apart
Sophie Cousins on Lebanon's decision to send home the children of migrant workers.
The unwelcome return of development pornography
John Hilary on a degrading spectacle that keeps coming back.
Is surrogacy a legitimate way out of poverty?
Doctors Nayna Patel and Mohan Rao go head to head.
The end of the line
Indian railway stations are a magnet for impoverished children looking for a better future. What usually awaits them is abuse and exploitation. Terina Keene on an initiative helping them find a way out.
'Everybody preferred children'
Combating child prostitution in Brazil is more urgent than ever – especially with the expected influx of foreign tourists for the 2014 World Cup, writes Olivia Crellin.
Keeping Prerna
Daily wage-earner Kajri is defying her husband to save her daughter. She confided in Ankita Balloh.
Only the best... it has to be a boy
Rajashri Dasgupta explodes a few myths about educated middle-class women in India.
Argument: Should 16-year-olds get the vote?
Politics academic Andrew Mycock and UK Youth Parliament member Chanté Joseph go head-to-head.
A toilet makes a difference
Girls in Somalia now have a better chance of completing their education. Katharina Wecker explains.
Why can’t the 1% play nicely?
The people who would have been labelled bullies in school are described as captains of industry in the adult world, says Steve Parry.
Letter from Botswana: 'There's a good side to this HIV'
A new birth offers a sign of hope for Lauri Kubuitsile.
