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State leaders and community advocates called for better support and policies for maternal mental health on Tuesday, saying almost half of Utah mothers report mental health symptoms before, during [...]

The official child poverty rate is about the same today as in 1967. It stood at 17% in 1967 – just about the same as in 2020. In many recent years the rate hovered even higher – around 20%. [The [...]

The committee of Solidarity at the Egyptian Parliament approved recently the budget of the National Council for Childhood and Motherhood. [Egypt Today, 19 May 2022.] READ MORE

The evidence points to a clear role of social protection instruments across the lifecycle, and their combined power to reduce the drivers of child labour through a system-wide approach. [ILO and [...]

This study proposes to quantify Equality of Opportunity while explicitly including a genetic-based measure of innate ability. [Rita Dias Pereira – bioRxiv, 20 December 2021.] READ MORE

The results show that survival progress is mainly having an effect on population growth at older ages, although accounting for indirect historical effects illuminates additional contributions at [...]

Some Member States saw their life expectancy rebound towards pre-COVID levels, while others suffered the impact of the pandemic later and fully in 2021, therefore any rebound is yet to be [...]

Motherhood is grueling enough, and the contributions that mothers make are important enough, that it is especially frustrating when government policy makes the hard work that moms do even more [...]

Gender differences in time use by age groups from the Multinational Time Use Study covering the period from 2005 to 2015. [Joan García Román and Pablo Gracia – Plos One, 9 March 2022.] READ MORE