Child Health and Behaviour

When 11-year-old Henri was hit on the head by a basketball, it began a 12-month medical ordeal.

A Perth couple are on trial accused of starving their teenage daughter to the point she weighed barely more than 27 kilograms and was at risk of having a heart attack.

After surviving a risky heart surgery at just one week of age, Seth McMaster is living a full and active life. He wants his journey to offer comfort to other families affected by congenital heart disease.

A survey of young Australians aged 16 to 39 years old finds about 25 per cent have used illegal nicotine pouches. One expert says there needs to be better enforcement of current laws to stop young people from using the products.

Mental health, technology and artificial intelligence (AI): Here's what hundreds of students, parents and teachers are most concerned about when it comes to education.

Claire thought that she'd escaped domestic violence after leaving her abusive partner, but she then struggled to find help with the violent meltdowns from her trauma-affected son.

As one of only 11 paediatric cardiac surgeons in Australia, Dr Prem Venugopal conducted open heart surgery on seven-day-old Jonathan, the first of many that saved his life.

A new report shows many Australians are delaying dentist visits or waiting years to receive publicly funded care — and in some parts of the country, wait times are going up.

Children living with chronic pain face many challenges, however with stigma surrounding their experiences, experts worry their main hurdle is just being believed.

When Maia Shoecraft was diagnosed with cerebral palsy as a toddler in a small rural town, her mum went back to university to help her.

Hunter New England Health and NSW Ambulance have apologised to a mother for the distress caused when her sick son was turned away from the local hospital because he arrived by ambulance.

Treasurer Jim Chalmers speaks with ABC News Breakfast on Productivity Commission report recommending free child care for low-income families.

Parents who co-sleep with their young children can face judgement and criticism, especially when the children are primary-school aged. Yet, most people in the world co-sleep with their children at some point. Here's what some of those parents get out of it.

You've probably heard of the widespread benefits of therapy dogs — or even cats or horses — but in a groundbreaking approach to mental health care, a unique form of therapy is making waves.

Both the federal and South Australian governments are proposing legislation to impose a minimum age on social media platforms but details about which services would be affected are scant.

Anthony Albanese vows to introduce legislation to ban children from accessing social media by the end of this year — but the age cut-off is yet to be determined.

A recipe invented to coax children into eating more vegetables has been hailed the best school tuckshop meal in Queensland.

An independent review into gender-affirming care for children finds research still supports puberty suppression treatment as "safe, effective and reversible" but calls for more long-term quality studies.

Four-year-old Willow Dunn was just 6.5 kilograms when she died and had deep pressure sores and a severe lice infestation. 

Sixty-four children have received precautionary X-rays after the remnants of a toy were found in a Sunshine Coast daycare's playground with button batteries nearby.