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children-development

Protecting our young, ensuring our future

Opinion 6 years ago

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Protecting our young, ensuring our future

While many healthy children can fight the infection with their natural defenses, children whose immune systems are weakened by malnutrition are at a higher risk of contracting pneumonia — a challenge we are already facing in our country.

Children’s wish list

Editorial 6 years ago

Children’s wish list

After nearly 65 years of independence, today’s children have every right to expect much better lives than their forebears. They are digital natives with so many possibilities within their reach. The elders should listen to them, rather than fail them.

The kids aren't alright: Japan struggles to protect its most vulnerable children

Health 6 years ago

The kids aren't alright: Japan struggles to protect its most vulnerable children

Unlike most developed countries, which place the majority of children who are abused, neglected, or can't live with their parents for other reasons in foster homes, Japan puts more than 80% of the 38,000 such children in residential-care facilities, according to government figures.

Telling lies important milestone in children’s mental development: Study

Parents 6 years ago

Telling lies important milestone in children’s mental development: Study

Almost all children invent lies for some inexplicable reasons. According to a study, this behavior is absolutely normal and is even an important and healthy step in their development.

Children have right to marry: Supreme Court

National 7 years ago

Children have right to marry: Supreme Court

“Each individual has the right to get married. That’s a human right. We can’t prohibit them as long as they are not violating any laws,” Supreme Court justice and spokesman Suhadi told The Jakarta Post on Thursday.

Uphill battle against child marriage

Opinion 7 years ago

Uphill battle against child marriage

Child marriage is as complex as a spider web and has been haunting the lives and futures of Indonesia’s 85 million children.

Access to water, sanitation and hygiene to save children from stunting

Opinion 7 years ago

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Access to water, sanitation and hygiene to save children from stunting

The prevalence of stunting should make us all wake up. We are all affected, not only our children.

Indonesia ranks 105th in Save the Children's global childhood index

Parents 7 years ago

Indonesia ranks 105th in Save the Children's global childhood index

Save the Children recently released the second edition of its annual global index on childhood, which places Indonesia in the 105th spot among 175 countries.

Orphaned children used in terror attacks struggle with severe trauma

National 7 years ago

Orphaned children used in terror attacks struggle with severe trauma

The suicide bombings in Surabaya and Sidoarjo, both in East Java, have left the perpetrators’ children severely traumatized after they were used as part of their parents’ terror plot.

The cost of being migrant workers

Opinion 7 years ago

The cost of being migrant workers

Compared to benefits of working abroad in wages and experience, how worthy is it for them to leave family and children?

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