Category: children

GOP Bill to Ban Federally Funded Drag Shows, Sexually Explicit Material for Children

House Republicans on Tuesday introduced a bill that would ban the use of federal funds for drag queen performances and other sexually oriented programs aimed at young children. The Stop the Sexualization of Children Act of 2022 bill (pdf) would prohibit federal, state, and local governments and private organizations from using federal tax dollars to expose children…


Therapist: Forcing Children to Declare and Use Pronouns Risks Psychological Harm

A “disturbing trend” in schools across the country risks psychological harm to children by forcing them to identify their gender, declare their preferred pronouns, and refer to others with confusing pronouns that don’t seem to agree with reality, a California child therapist told The Epoch Times. Pronoun discussions can usher in a more serious form…


Two Children Dead, 46-Year-Old Man Arrested in Laval, North of Montreal

Two children are dead and a 46-year-old man is under arrest after officers were called to intervene at a home north of Montreal Monday evening, Laval police said Tuesday. A spokeswoman for the force said investigators identified the victims as an 11-year-old boy and a 13-year-old girl. They were transported to hospital where their deaths…


Ontario Regulator Agrees to Review Standards Amid Protests Over Teacher Wearing Prosthetic Breasts in Class

An Ontario regulator for schoolteachers has agreed to review its professional standards over protests by parents and students in regard to a high school teacher who wore large prosthetic breasts with protruding nipples in class. The teacher at Oakville Trafalgar High School (OTHS), located west of Toronto, came to public attention after students shared videos and photos…


Study: Video Games Can Be Lethal for Children With Heart Conditions

A new study by the Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network has found that electronic gaming can be deadly for children with heart conditions. The study, published Oct. 10 in the journal Heart Rhythm,  revealed that playing video games can cause life-threatening cardiac arrhythmia—an irregular heartbeat—in susceptible children, who may have an undiagnosed heart condition. Australian researchers reviewed 69…


Barbara Kay: The Movement to Normalize Pedophilia Hits a Roadblock, but We Mustn’t Let Our Guard Down

Commentary Radical gender ideology has as its principal goal the “queering” of norms that are foundational to healthy societies. Queer theory (QT) argues that we need to “deconstruct” all social binaries: male vs. female, heterosexual vs. homosexual, nature vs. culture. To accomplish this, all human-constructed boundaries must be transgressed with freedom and without consequences. Queering…


Harsh COVID Lockdowns in Ireland Hindered Babies’ Language and Social Development: Study

Ireland’s COVID-19 lockdown measures, known to be among the toughest in Europe, have delayed the speech and social development of newborn babies, a new study suggests. According to researchers at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Irish babies born during the early months of the pandemic lockdown are meeting fewer developmental milestones in speech…


7 Ways Parents Can Become Better Listeners

Have you ever regretted cutting your child’s long story short or dismissing a child’s need to talk because you were preoccupied with something else? Have you ever grown impatient waiting for a child to finish their long-winded description of a picture they drew or all the things they know about dinosaurs because you were so…


Protests Grip Iran as Rights Group Says 19 Children Killed

DUBAI—Protests ignited by the death of a young woman in police custody continued across Iran on Sunday in defiance of a crackdown by the authorities, as a human rights group said at least 185 people, including children, had been killed in demonstrations. Anti-government protests that began on Sept. 17 at the funeral of 22-year-old Mahsa…


[Premiering 10:30 AM ET] ‘Gender Ideology’ Is a ‘Cultural Wreckingball’ Meant to Destroy Family and Tradition: Jay Richards

Gender ideology is a Marxist system meant to break children from families, and societies from traditions. This is according to Jay Richards, director of the Heritage Foundation’s DeVos Center for Life, Religion, and Family. We speak with Richards about how children are being turned against their own bodies, how legal action is possible against doctors…